Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 37

🌌 Scene 1: The Journey North

The icy wind howled across the tundra of the Northern Silence Zone — once known as the Crystal Belt, now corrupted by the emergence of the Cello Core.

Zeron stood atop a reinforced hover sled, wrapped in a thin protective suit modified by Rest. It pulsed with weak violet lines — the only color breaking through the whiteout storm.

Behind him: Aina, Rest, and two rogue Spiral operatives — survivors of Ryne's purge — now loyal to Zeron.

Aina activated the map on her forearm projector.

"We're here," she said, her voice muffled by wind. "Five clicks from the Core's hum radius."

"And inside that hum," Rest added grimly, "Krono usage is cut by 90%. Whatever we do, we do raw."

"Good," Zeron replied. "Let's hear it scream."

❄️ Scene 2: Cello Core — The Breath of Despair

The moment they entered the hum zone, everyone felt it.

Like stepping into a graveyard.

Not silence — but anti-sound. A pressure behind the ears. A nausea beneath the skin.

And in the distance: the Cello Core, standing like a dead god's monument, its strings vibrating slowly.

Every few seconds, it pulsed with a tone that couldn't be heard — only felt.

Boom.

Boom.

Boom.

Each pulse stole a memory. A moment. A thought.

Aina collapsed to one knee, eyes wide.

"I… can't remember my brother's face…"

Rest held her shoulder.

"Don't think. Just walk."

Zeron advanced.

And the Core answered.

It opened.

Not like a door — like a wound. The black metal peeled back in folds.

Inside: a humanoid figure, suspended in crystal, with faint violet Krono mist coiling around its form.

It looked exactly like…

"Me," Zeron whispered.

🕳️ Scene 3: The Key and the Clone

Zeron stepped forward, drawn in by instinct.

The suspended figure opened its eyes.

They were bright violet — deeper than Zeron's.

It spoke a name:

"Zephiron."

Zeron blinked.

"What did you say?"

"The name they erased. The one before the world forgot the truth."

"Who are you?"

"I'm the first attempt," the figure said, voice laced with sorrow. "You're the last."

Suddenly, the walls flickered.

And the truth was revealed.

Zeron wasn't just a person.

He was a living code — a seed planted decades ago inside a human shell.

One of Spiral's ancient experiments to create the Perfect Conductor — someone whose Krono could not only power machines, but synchronize with them on a harmonic level.

"You are the last verse," Zephiron said. "The one meant to conduct the final symphony."

"And this…" he gestured to the Cello Core around him, "was to be your instrument of judgment."

"But the world… corrupted it. Turned the orchestra into a weapon."

💥 Scene 4: Aina's Choice

As the truth unfolded, a side panel hissed open in the chamber.

Inside it: a core spike — a weapon capable of destroying the entire Cello structure.

"It'll kill the entity," Rest warned, "and collapse the entire field. But if Zeron is truly linked…"

Aina didn't wait.

She grabbed it.

"If he dies, I die with him," she said. "But if I don't act now, the world dies anyway."

Zeron looked at her, his voice shaking.

"You'll destroy everything we just found—"

"No," Aina said. "I'm betting it'll wake you up."

She stabbed the core spike into the crystalline platform.

⚡ Scene 5: The Song of Reversal

The world stopped.

Time bent.

The Cello Core began collapsing.

Not in destruction — in compression.

All of its sound, its silence, its frequencies — it pushed them inward.

Into Zeron.

His body glowed violet.

No — not just violet. Deeper.

Obsidian violet.

The mythical shade never recorded in Krono history.

His breath returned.

His mind expanded.

And he heard the first note of a new melody.

The Silent Symphony had become his.

"Zephiron," he whispered. "I'll carry your tune forward."

🛰️ Scene 6: Spiral's Fall

Back at Spiral HQ, Ryne stood before a screen showing a map of the world.

Cello Core collapsed.

Silence Protocol: failed.

But what truly broke him wasn't that.

It was a message blinking on the classified channel:

"Harp Engine Reactivating."

"Targeting: Spiral."

From the sky, like lightning descending on pride, the Harp unleashed its next verse.

A chord of purging light.

It struck Spiral's outer tower.

And Spiral…

…fell.

🧭 Preview — Chapter 38: Symphony of Exiles

With the Cello Core collapsed and Spiral in ruins, Zeron becomes a target for all factions.

A rogue alliance begins to form around him.

Aina recovers… changed by exposure to the Core.

Zake wakes in a secret facility, guarded by a mysterious monk.

And far beyond Earth's skies, an alien overlord prepares to descend — with a voice that cancels even Krono itself.