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Chapter 41 - The World Eater Rises

## **Narration – Belenus**

Peace always ends with a whisper.

Not a scream.

Not a roar.

Just the low hum of something ancient…

…*waking up*.

It wasn't fear I felt when the rupture came—it was *recognition*.

A knowing carved into bone, deeper than instinct.

We felt it ripple across Hollow Earth like static threading through our souls.

A presence beyond time.

Beyond reason.

A shadow so ancient, even the Titans had forgotten to fear it.

The *Leviathan Seed* had come to devour not just life—but **legacy**.

And it would find us *ready*.

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### **Rift Edge – Hollow Earth Exosphere**

The sky split open like a torn wound in the fabric of the divine.

Not fire.

Not light.

Only *absence*.

A yawning curtain of dark matter and negative space bled through Hollow Earth's edge, its shape impossible to comprehend.

Towers of anti-light spiraled from the rift's edges, bleeding color and warmth from the land. Grass blackened. Air thinned. Time stuttered.

Then, it reached through.

A hand, made not of flesh, but collapsing galaxies and dead suns—clawed its way into the realm.

And from beyond the breach came the voice:

> "You have kindled too much hope, Dawnbearer."

> "Time to extinguish what should have never been born."

It wasn't words. It was *thought*, injected directly into the soul.

**The Leviathan Seed** emerged.

Shifting eyes blinked along its ever-folding plates, bodies within bodies—a recursive terror built from the discarded limbs of dying dimensions.

Its presence fractured gravity.

It unstitched the harmony of creation with every breathless undulation.

It didn't belong.

It never *should* have belonged.

But here it was.

And I stood between it and everything I loved.

> "This realm is not yours to consume," I said, flames crawling up my arms.

To my left, **Goku** floated forward, calm as still water, his body aglow in the divine sheen of Ultra Instinct.

To my right, **Deku** rose with him—green lightning arching along his limbs, his body humming with synchronized quirks and raw, sacred resolve.

> "We end this," I said. "Together."

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### **Phase One – Belenus, Goku & Deku vs The Leviathan Seed**

The battle began across **ten timelines simultaneously**.

I shot forward first, wings of sunfire spreading behind me. Ashen sigils locked in formation around my fists. I struck high, breaking the barrier of causality with sheer will.

Goku appeared beside me in four flashes—his Ultra Instinct splitting across parallel positions in microbursts of perfect defense and offense. His fists cracked silence like thunder.

Deku wasn't the same boy who once doubted himself. He launched in behind us, Full Cowl at 100%—but something *more*. The Quirks were no longer tools. They were *extensions of destiny*. Float curved his arc mid-air, Blackwhip locked down folds in reality, Gear Shift propelled him through timeline static.

But then… we learned what it meant to fight a *Seed* of the World Eater.

The Leviathan didn't dodge.

It *deleted* attacks from the chain of memory.

My flame strikes winked out of existence. Goku's fists passed through pieces of time that no longer existed. Deku's momentum faltered as physics rewrote themselves around him.

> "NOW!" Deku cried.

He activated **Fa Jin**, charged Gear Shift, and *outran causality*. His fist punched through the temporal barrier and reconnected the moment.

Goku timed his instant warp punch precisely with the reboot.

I channeled the raw molten heart of Hollow Earth into a towering spear of light—**Solar Annihilation Lance**—and drove it down in a warcry heard across dimensions.

We struck in union.

And for the first time…

…the Leviathan **flinched**.

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### **Phase Two – Leviathan Ascends**

But pain meant nothing to it.

It simply *evolved*.

Its form twisted, shedding false shells. Eyes opened—each a mirror to a future where we failed, died, or never rose.

It projected *endings*.

> "You cannot win," it whispered from every direction.

> "Your very destinies collapse before my gaze."

The Leviathan unfurled, reshaping into a spiral of entropy—a sentient storm of dead timelines.

It *rewrote the battlefield*, pulling us into overlapping dreamscapes.

Deku screamed—trapped in a vision of a Midoriya where he had failed All Might… where Bakugo and Ochaco were tombstones.

> "It's not real!" I roared, cleaving through the nightmare with burning wings.

> "You choose your truth, Deku!"

Deku's eyes flared. He roared and shattered the illusion, green lightning incinerating the false world.

Goku reemerged from a quiet, broken Earth—one where he'd never left, where he never found meaning beyond survival. He smiled.

> "I know who I am," he said. His aura exploded into nova silver.

We reunited.

And then… **Andarta**'s voice whispered across my consciousness:

> "Synchronize. Fusion Pathway Unlocked."

> **Solar-Frequency Trinity Mode – Authorized.**

I extended my hand.

Goku met it.

Deku did too.

We let go of ego.

And the power *awoke*.

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### **Final Phase – Trinity Flame Breakthrough**

Three flames ignited.

* **Crimson Flame** – my eternal rebirth, the will to forge futures.

* **Silver Flow** – Goku's endless transcendence, pure instinct without thought.

* **Emerald Surge** – Deku's heroic soul, powered by belief and sacrifice.

Together, we became **Shinsei Ryujin** — the Divine Flame Serpent.

A draconic titan made of radiant light, crowned with phoenix fire, trailing comet-tails across time and stars.

The Leviathan roared, summoning entropy to *erase* our form.

But **Deku's will resisted** deletion.

**Goku's spirit endured** corruption.

**And I ignited** through the impossible—*becoming fire beyond reality*.

> "We are not Titans.

> We are *Truths*."

We struck.

Not through flesh.

Not through shadow.

But through the Leviathan's *core delusion*—

—the belief that legacy could be unmade.

And the Seed *imploded*, collapsing into itself, consumed by the hope it failed to devour.

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### **Aftermath – Hollow Earth, Dawnfall Ridge**

The skies healed.

The clouds breathed.

The stars realigned.

Deku fell to his knees, laughing, exhausted, whole.

Goku laid on the grass, arms behind his head, smiling like it was a festival.

I stood still—quiet, burning softly.

> "You did good, kid," Goku said, ruffling Deku's hair.

> "We all did," I replied, my gaze rising with the newborn sun.

A warm wind carried her voice to me.

**Amaterasu.**

> "You've slain the false Leviathan.

> But the *true* one… still dreams."

> "That was only its seed."

The light trembled as her presence faded.

And my soul… understood.

This wasn't the end.

This was the *beginning of its awakening*.

And soon…

We would face the **true Leviathan**.

The one older than gods.

The one that forgot its own name.

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