Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 88

🌌 Scene 1: Dead Orbit

Far beyond the planetary grid, beyond the reach of satellites and Krono wavefields, lies the Dead Orbit—a vast expanse of frozen silence. The stars are dimmer here, the void heavier.

Zeron and Kael exit a Krono Jump Gate and arrive in the decaying remains of an ancient Sentinel Station—abandoned, unpowered, floating like a grave.

Their mission is simple: reach the central control chamber and investigate the coordinates Dextra left behind.

But nothing here is simple.

Zeron's Astrael Vortan immediately begins to shudder.

Kael scans the area.

"This whole station… it's made of reverse-Krono. It's draining us."

Inside the walls, something moves—shadows with no form, flickering in and out of existence.

🧬 Scene 2: Nullroot

Deep in the station, sealed beneath thirty Chrono-locks, a chamber opens by itself.

Floating in a dark biomechanical womb is Nullroot—a being made not of matter, but of anti-Krono, a reversal of energy and logic, of memory and self.

It stirs for the first time in centuries.

Nullroot's body is featureless, humanoid but unstable. It whispers in paradoxes:

"I am the beginning. I am the erasure."

A pulse of anti-Krono blasts through the station. Astrael Vortan screams in Zeron's mind. Kael's armor short-circuits.

Zeron drops to one knee. His skin begins to burn backward—moments of his life unraveling.

He sees his mother alive—then dead again. His first fight—then it's undone. Zui laughing—then vanishing.

"This thing is... deleting my memories," Zeron chokes.

🧠 Scene 3: Zake's Discovery

Meanwhile, back on the surface—

Zake, driven by a strange dream, enters a hidden archive beneath the Guild Hall. His fingerprint activates a genetic vault.

Inside, he finds a preserved holotape of their parents.

Their father, once a Guildmaster, is seen holding a strange device.

"Zeron... will awaken the Purple Core. If you're watching this, it's too late to stop what's coming."

Zake watches in silence as his mother's voice follows:

"Zake, your role is the key. You are the catalyst—not the wielder."

Before he can understand more, alarms go off. The Memory Security Division is on his tail.

He escapes using his own mecha—Eclipse Runner—now showing signs of a Krono mutation.

🧩 Scene 4: Zui's Tower

Zui is building something in the ruins of Sector Nine.

Alone, surrounded by corrupted Mechas and derelict AI, she stands atop a spiraling structure made of black steel and Krono remnants.

She's fusing her memories into the material.

"One tower for each lie. One tier for each truth."

The tower is pulsing, almost alive.

She whispers to herself:

"Brother... you will come here. You will remember."

From the shadows, a dark-robed figure appears—Apostle IV: Veilborn.

He bows.

"My Lady of the Net. The Entity has awoken. Will you kneel?"

Zui turns slowly, her eyes now half-gold, half-shadow.

"I will make the Entity kneel."

⚔️ Scene 5: The Fight for Memory

Back in the Dead Orbit—

Zeron pushes through the Krono inversion. His body is breaking, but Astrael Vortan speaks through his pain:

"I have remembered what I am."

The armor evolves. The crystal core opens. Purple veins of Krono begin to leak.

Zeron screams—not in agony, but in release.

The Vortan Protocol activates.

A massive blade forms—a Chrono Scythe forged from his own erased memories.

Kael shouts from behind:

"Zeron, this is suicide!"

Zeron charges Nullroot, slashing with the Scythe.

Each strike doesn't hurt Nullroot—it restores time instead.

The broken station reassembles around them, events reverse, and the anti-Krono begins to collapse under the pressure of restored history.

Nullroot lashes out.

Zeron is thrown into a fracture of space.

The last thing he sees before blacking out is a young girl—wearing a flower pin, standing on a floating bridge of starlight.

🔮 Preview – Chapter 89: The Girl from Yesterday

Zeron wakes up in a fragment world created by Nullroot—where time flows backward.He meets a mysterious girl who claims to be a "Loopghost."Zake begins his solo mission to track down the Living Archive.Zui's tower reaches completion—and sends a pulse to every Mecha driver on the planet.The Resistance prepares for the Siege of Chronar Core.