Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 52

🌌 Scene 1: When Stars Vanish

The sky was no longer a constant.

Where there had once been constellations, now there was blankness—stretches of dark canvas with missing stars. Astronomers called it a "cosmic blink." Zeron knew better.

They weren't blinking out.

They were being erased.

"Someone's writing over the universe."

He stood on the roof of a ruined Guild facility, holding Zake's broken ID chip. It pulsed faintly with residual Krono. Zake's final moments still echoed through it.

Zeron's fists clenched. The sky stared down—fragmented, and cold.

🧠 Scene 2: The Codex's Next Rule

Within the Codex Realm, the pages fluttered even though there was no wind. Ivy stood beside Zeron now, her presence stabilizing the book's shifting nature.

"I found something," Ivy whispered.

She pointed to a glyph: a glowing paragraph that flickered between languages.

"The next stage of your power isn't about creation… it's about extraction."

"Extraction?" Zeron echoed.

"You can pull truths from rewritten timelines. Forgotten battles, deleted heroes… even fragments of dead allies."

Zeron's breath caught.

"Zake?"

Ivy looked down. "Maybe... but it's dangerous. If you pull too hard, the timeline might shatter."

⚙️ Scene 3: Dual Requiem Tested

Elsewhere, Zui stared down her alternate self across a mirrored command room.

The other Zui smirked.

"You're scared to use what I built."

"Because you made it with revenge in mind," Zui snapped.

"Revenge keeps us alive."

They clashed—not with fists, but through the Mecha itself. Dual Requiem split into two forms mid-battle—Zui in one, her counterpart in the other.

Across a simulation of Earth's capital, they tested its might. Each twin-frame responded to opposite emotional spectrums—Zui's running on protection, her counterpart's on wrath.

It ended with Zui's half damaged, sparking from the chest.

"You're not ready," the Other Zui said. "And the world won't wait for you to be."

🛰️ Scene 4: Eclipse Frame vs the Traitor

In the Free Core capital, Eclipse Frame launched for the first time—flying straight into low orbit.

Its target: Lyra Tenebris.

The traitor had activated an orbiting deletion satellite, rewriting weather patterns to disrupt resistance zones.

Aina led the charge, linked to thousands of synced minds.

"Strike where she will be," she ordered.

The battle was cerebral. Lyra countered with quantum-shifting drones. Every hit registered seconds after it landed. The AI predicted future pain.

But Eclipse Frame wasn't bound by time. Each strike it delivered wrote itself into history. Lyra faltered.

One drone was destroyed—and it never existed in the logs again.

🔍 Scene 5: The Return of an Erased Name

In the Guild's memory vault, Zeron found an encrypted file marked Redacted: Project P.R.I.S.M.

He opened it.

A name appeared—then glitched.

Then again.

Finally, the name stuck: Yurein Vael.

"That's… my mother."

Suddenly, memories rushed in—not his, but echoes. A woman standing on a tower of shattered timelines, writing code into the sky.

A voice:

"You inherited more than Krono, Zeron. You inherited her war."

💬 Scene 6: A Message in the Stars

The missing stars weren't gone. They were relocated, rearranged into code visible only from a specific angle in the Pacific sky.

Zui, Ivy, and Zeron gathered on the coast with high-powered optics.

They decoded the pattern.

One phrase emerged in blinking starlight:

"THE WRITER WAKES."

A tremor passed through Zeron's chest.

"Who… who is the Writer?"

🔮 Preview — Chapter 53: Project P.R.I.S.M. Initiated

Zeron uncovers a secret project tied to his mother's forgotten legacy.Zui attempts to fully synchronize with the Other.Ivy starts constructing a machine that can extract timelines.A dark star appears in orbit, hiding something vast.And a mysterious figure begins to descend… rewriting reality with every step.