To live is to die. To die.. Death is the only absolute. Death is this worlds one and only inescapable truth. To live is to wander thru life, feeling the icy breath of the Grim Reaper as he holds his deadly scythe against the skin of your throat. Any moment could be the dreaded moment that the darkness of death takes the final breath from your lungs, the final beat of your heart, and the final movement of your body. Darkness; the enemy of the light that shines down upon all living things. Darkness; the eventual consumer of all things. But the deeper the darkness, the stronger the light. One year has passed since the fall of the Empire and the presumed death of the man known as X the Thousand Man Slayer. In secret X and Valary, the love of his life, have been in hiding. Over the last year they have tried to build a new life for themselves away from the police and the mysterious organization known as The Society. With Valarys sudden disappearance and an attempt on Xs life from a man from his past, X is forced into a game that not only involves the lives of X and Valary but people from Xs past. As each trial is brought before him, he becomes closer and closer to death but at the same time he slowly returning to being the monster he once was. Thru unimaginable pain and pools of blood, X fights the demons of his past and the demons beside him.