Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 46

⚔️ Scene 1: Memory Collapse

The capital of Rüven Core flickered.

Skyscrapers trembled not from physical damage — but from informational decay. Data streams turned to static. Memories erased from digital archives and human minds alike.

Zeron stood at the eye of this storm.

His clash with the White Titan was silent.

No explosions.

Just threads of code and Krono slamming into each other, shattering laws of reality.

"Who are you?" Zeron shouted.

"I am the Reversal," the titan said. "You, the Echo. I correct. You contaminate."

The titan's chest opened.

A mirror inside revealed Zeron's reflection — twisted, smiling cruelly.

"What… is that?"

"Your future, if you finish the Verse."

🧬 Scene 2: Ivy and the DNA Truth

Ivy sat beneath the oldest light tree of Crystal Aeon's data sanctuary. Her mind parsed the file she'd decrypted last chapter — one buried under seven failsafes and false memories.

Project LyraClone.

A genetic experiment based on Zeron's mother.

"I'm not just an anchor," Ivy said. "I'm… a shadow."

Her hands trembled. Not from fear — but from awakening.

The more she learned, the more her Krono shifted — no longer pure red, but streaked with glacial white.

"I was made… not to love him. But to break him."

Suddenly, a message flashed across her inner HUD:

"GENETIC MATCH: 89.7% — SUBJECT: LYRA ASTRELL."

She dropped the shard. Ran.

But her reflection… stayed smiling.

🌀 Scene 3: Aina vs. Aina

At Chrono-Fault Ridge, Aina's skin split into threads of time. Each thread revealed a different version of her:

Aina the Killer, who betrayed Zeron.Aina the Nun, who never joined the war.Aina the Martyr, who died at the gate.

She screamed — but the sound echoed in five different timelines.

A ghostly figure appeared.

Not a titan.

Not a human.

Something in-between.

"Your Chrono-spirit is breaking. Only one of you can survive," it said.

Aina bit her lip.

"Then I choose the version that loved him."

With her core Krono blazing amber-red, she began pulling the fractured versions inward — consuming her other selves.

"Sorry, me. I've got someone to protect."

🔍 Scene 4: Spiral Breach

Zake, Rest, and Zui stood before the Mainframe Gate of Spiral HQ.

Behind it, the truth about Versecradle.

And behind that, possibly their doom.

Zui's pendant lit up.

The glyph read: "Only blood of the chosen shall pass."

"You guys won't get through," Zui whispered. "I have to go alone."

Zake looked torn. "You're just a kid—"

"Not anymore," she said softly.

As she touched the glyph, it read her dream-sequence DNA and opened the gate.

Zake and Rest waited outside… as screams echoed from within.

⚙️ Scene 5: Battle Inside the Glitch

Zeron's battle with the White Titan escalated.

The city below them forgot its own existence. People walked in circles, unable to recall why they lived or who they loved.

"You call this saving the world?" the Titan roared.

Zeron activated the Verse Interface mid-air. Its notes stabbed reality like blades.

"You erased the world's memories to prevent pain. But pain is what proves we lived!"

Suddenly, the White Titan did something no one expected.

It knelt.

And said, "Then remember this."

And touched Zeron's chest.

A flood of images:

Lyra dying inside a burning lab.Zeron as a child screaming in a containment pod.The first prototype of Ivy… being birthed beside him.

Zeron dropped to his knees.

Tears spilled.

His Verse… faltered.

🎭 Scene 6: A Visitor from Beyond

Above the battlefield, a rift tore open.

Out stepped a figure in black robes, stitched with moving letters.

His face was blank.

No eyes. No mouth.

Only a voice from every direction.

"The Third Verse is being sung."

"Too early," said the stranger. "Too loud."

Zeron stared up at him.

"Who are you now?"

The being answered:

"I am the Editor. You are over word-count."

He snapped his fingers—

—and froze time.

Even the White Titan halted.

Only Zeron and the Editor moved.

"What happens next is no longer your story," he said.

Then handed Zeron a small, burning coin.

Etched on it: FOURTH VERSE: COMMENCE.

🔚 Preview — Chapter 47: Versecradle Revealed

Zui discovers the true origin of Zeron's Krono—and her own.

Ivy faces the paradox of her love and her creation.

Aina is hunted by the fractured remnants of her alternate selves.

Zake and Rest rally the underground resistance.

And the Editor's purpose… begins to rewrite the very laws of fate.