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Chapter 20 - X THE HUNTER S2 E10

SEASON 2 — EPISODE 10: THE GOD THAT HUNTS BACK

Cold Open — Swallowed Whole

RECAP MONTAGE

• Ep. 9: Xavier overpowers the Shadow King in direct combat, shattering the citadel walls.

• The World-Eater notices him for the first time, speaking directly into his mind.

• Permanent Godslayer Velocity and Colossus Force unlocked.

• Shadow King retreats with his two remaining Servants, warning that Xavier has drawn divine attention.

EXT. SKY ABOVE THE CONTINENT — DAY

The light dims over the entire continent. Not because of clouds… but because the sky itself is bending downward.

The World-Eater descends — not like a creature, but like a cosmic event. A shadow so vast it dwarfs mountains and swallows the horizon.

Its "mouth" opens, not a physical jaw but a rip in the fabric of reality — black and jagged, ringed with teeth the size of mountain ranges. Inside: infinite night.

Lightning arcs upward instead of down. The wind shifts direction twice in a single heartbeat.

KAI (over comms):

"Xavier! Don't let it—"

WHITE FLASH — And Xavier is simply gone.

Act 1 — Inside the World-Eater

INT. WORLD-EATER'S INNER VOID

No up. No down. No ground. No sky.

Everywhere he looks: titanic walls of living flesh, bone arches spanning miles, rivers of molten ichor. Floating islands of organs the size of cities drift in a gravity that changes direction every few seconds.

SYSTEM WARNING:

• Threat Level: ∞

• Environment Status: HOSTILE — Reality Suppression Active.

Xavier takes a step forward… and feels it. His Apex Ascendant form — the unstoppable mode that defied gods — slows to a crawl.

Even the lightning in his veins fizzles into embers, eaten by the void around him.

XAVIER (quietly):

"…So you're not gonna make this easy."

Act 2 — The First Predator

From between two colossal rib-like structures, something moves.

It's not prey.

It's a predator — a living weapon grown inside the World-Eater's body. Its hide is blacker than the void, eyes burning with red-gold hunger. It carries claws longer than siege towers, each dripping with a toxin that sizzles on contact with the air.

HUD SCAN:

• Classification: Apex Predator — World-Eater Class

• Level: ?? (Est. >1500)

It doesn't roar. It vanishes.

A second later — SLASH! — Xavier's chest splits open before he even fully registers the movement.

Blood drifts upward. Or maybe downward. In here, directions are meaningless.

The fight is a blur of impossible speed, the predator's attacks striking from every angle, tearing organ-islands apart with each blow.

Worse — every wound it takes heals instantly, knitting back together before his blade leaves its flesh.

Act 3 — Pushing Beyond Apex Ascendant

Xavier feels the suppression field eating away at his reflexes. His speed multiplier is crushed to fractions.

He needs more.

Not a split-second thought — an instinct.

He calls Hunter's Duality, the technique that divides him into two perfect fighting selves…

…only this time, he forces them back together.

Both halves — speed and strength — compressed into a single overcharged form.

SYSTEM ALERT: Cellular degradation detected. Neural strain critical.

The pain is instant and blinding. His muscles tear and heal in the same instant, every heartbeat like a small explosion.

But now…

He moves at true Godspeed, even inside the suppression.

The predator lunges.

Xavier catches its skull mid-leap.

With a single motion, he drives his sword through bone, brain, and spine — tearing the glowing core free.

The corpse dissolves into mist, absorbed into the void.

Act 4 — The Heart of the Beast

The World-Eater reacts.

The entire dimension tilts, and Xavier is dragged toward something far in the distance — a planet-sized heart, each beat sending a shockwave that erases entire organ-islands in its path.

The flesh-wall behind him splits, and dozens — no, hundreds — of new predators emerge, each radiating the power of a Level 1000+ foe.

He doesn't slow down.

Every strike he makes now kills instantly, the Predator's Supremacy effect sinking into reality itself, stripping enemies of speed and regeneration just by proximity.

Bodies fall in a golden-white blur. The path to the heart clears.

Act 5 — The Limit Break That Never Ends

He reaches the heart.

It's not muscle — it's a sphere of living light, wrapped in tendrils of black lightning, pulsing with the will of something older than worlds.

XAVIER (to the heart):

"You looked at me first. Remember that."

He raises his sword — the lightning in it now twisted with black arcs from the predator's stolen core — and plunges it into the heart.

INFINITE APEX SEVER — a Limit Break with no duration, no endpoint, no mercy.

Each swing sends quakes through the void. The tendrils shatter. The light inside the heart bursts outward in white-gold detonation.

Act 6 — Permanent Evolution

The explosion tears reality apart.

When Xavier opens his eyes, he's lying on cracked stone — back on the continent.

Above him, the World-Eater is retreating into the black between stars, its colossal form bleeding light.

HUD UPDATE:

• LEVEL UP! 80 → 100

• NEW PASSIVES:

• Transcendent Physique — All physical attributes scale infinitely with each battle survived.

• Absolute Velocity — Speed unaffected by environmental or dimensional suppression.

• Predator's Supremacy — Any opponent of lower level automatically suffers reduced speed, strength, and regeneration in Xavier's presence.

Ending Cliffhanger

EXT. RUINS OF THE CITADEL — NIGHT

The Shadow King stands on a shattered balcony, cape rippling in the wind. His gaze is fixed on the distant horizon, where the World-Eater's wound glows faintly in the sky.

SHADOW KING (smiling):

"You hurt it. Now it will come for everything."

From the smoke of a collapsed street, Xavier steps into view — eyes burning with unending golden-white light, aura now threaded with the same black lightning that wrapped the World-Eater's heart.

XAVIER (calmly):

"Good. I'll hunt it to the edge of creation."

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