Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 74

🌆 Scene 1: Reality Breaking

In the city of Nova Virra, time stutters.

People wake up, only to forget their names. Buildings shift architecture every hour. Screens display events from alternate versions of history—wars that never happened, leaders that never existed.

The Eidolon Protocol is activating worldwide, starting with small memory cracks. It's rewriting the fabric of reality itself using Krono as the medium.

Civil Broadcast: "...remain calm. Do not trust your memories. Await recalibration."

Panic spreads.

At Mecha Guild HQ, Zake and Milo begin cross-referencing global anomalies with Krono activity spikes.

Milo: "It's like every lie Valken ever told... is turning into truth."

🧒 Scene 2: The Child from Tomorrow

At 3:33 AM, a girl appears at the lab door, barefoot, wearing a torn cape stitched with old Mecha Guild insignias. Her eyes glow softly with silver hue—the same as Zeron's evolving Krono.

She introduces herself with a voice that's eerie and mature:

Girl: "I'm Lira. Zake sent me. From the year 9-XA12."

Zake stares. His future self sent her?

She claims to be a Chrono Echo—a being stitched from future timelines to prevent a singularity collapse.

Lira: "If Valken succeeds, time will loop forever. One version of him wins in every reality. Your brother is the anomaly. He's not supposed to exist."

Zake: "So Zeron's... a glitch?"

Lira: "No. He's the reset key."

⚔️ Scene 3: Serin's Trial

Serin, emotionally shaken after nearly losing Zui, returns to the battlefield, now leading a small unit to investigate a collapsed Chrono Node in the Eastern ruins.

There, they find dozens of Eidolon Phantoms—robots without cores but animated by false Krono. They move like shadows, intangible yet lethal.

Her unit is wiped out, one by one, until she's the last one standing.

Just as a Phantom strikes at her blindside—

A massive plasma bolt vaporizes it.

Zake, riding the experimental mech RAZOR-FANG Mk2, arrives just in time.

Zake: "Don't die on me, genius."

Serin (panting): "You took long enough…"

Their friendship, once built on rivalry, now begins to transform into loyalty.

👁 Scene 4: Valken's Next Move

Within the Eidolon Core, Valken studies Zeron's battle from earlier.

He analyzes the Silver Krono frame.

Valken: "Silver is... Pre-Spectral. Not bound by color. By law. That means... it's ancestral. It remembers the original shape of reality."

Valken's Advisor: "Then Zeron... is a key?"

Valken: "He is a variable that can destroy causality. I underestimated him."

He commands the creation of a new army:

Synthetic History Units—machines programmed with rewritten identities of Earth's greatest heroes and villains.They are to be deployed in places where reality has already begun to crumble, replacing people's memories and planting false epochs.

💔 Scene 5: The Cracks in Zui

Back at the hideout, Zui tries to recover, but begins experiencing temporal seizures. Her memory flickers—sometimes calling Zeron "Father" or forgetting who she is.

Lira explains:

Lira: "Because she was mentally synced with Valken's illusion… her timeline is bleeding."

They can't cure it with medicine. Only Silver Krono can anchor her identity.

Zeron, feeling guilt and rage, clenches his fists.

Zeron: "Then I'll master it. Even if it kills me."

He enters the Resonant Core, a chamber only those with stable Krono can survive.

But his Krono is unstable.

He might die.

🌀 Scene 6: Inside the Resonant Core

Inside, Zeron is bombarded with memories not his own—battlefields he never fought in, versions of himself that never lived.

He sees himself:

Wearing Valken's armor.Killing his own friends.Destroying Earth.

Zeron: "What is this?! Lies?!"

Echo Voice: "They are all true. Every possibility is you."

He collapses.

But before he fades, a fragment—his mother's voice—calls to him.

Mother's Echo: "Kindness… even in rage… that's your core."

His Krono flares again—Silver becomes Radiant Silver, a new state.

He stabilizes.

And awakens with new abilities:

Memory weaving: editing small amounts of others' perception.Mind pulse: disabling weak phantom units with pure thought.Gravity dash: warping across a battlefield by phasing into possible futures.

He emerges from the Resonant Core reborn.

Zeron: "I'm not a glitch. I'm the firewall."

🧠 Scene 7: Preview – Chapter 75: Synthetic Legends

Valken releases the Synthetic History Army—Zeron must face an enemy wearing his father's face.Lira's presence begins to distort local time fields.A forgotten truth is revealed: Valken wasn't the first user of Purple Krono.A mysterious traitor within the guild sends Serin a coded warning.Zui vanishes from her room… and all recordings of her begin to disappear.