The Marauders: The Clockwork Pilgrim

They came out of the ruins with pipes and chains. Twelve men, hungry and desperate. They saw a walking mountain of scrap metal and saw a fortune.

The first blow struck his knee joint. Sparks flew. The Pilgrim didn't break stride.

"Stop!" the leader screamed, swinging a sledgehammer. "Fall down!"

The hammer rang against the Pilgrim's chest plate like a bell. It left a dent. The Pilgrim kept walking.

The Unstoppable

They hit him for a mile. They broke their weapons on him. They exhausted themselves.

He never raised a hand. He never slowed down. He simply walked through them as if they were ghosts.

Threat Assessment: Negligible. Combat Protocols: Disengaged. Mission: Continue.

"Why won't you fight?" the leader wept, dropping his broken hammer.
The Pilgrim stopped then. He looked down.
"Because you are already broken," he said.

He left them in the dust, unharmed but terrified by a mercy they couldn't understand.