Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 135

🌌 Scene 1: Arrival at Dranveil

The descent was silent.

Beneath the torn skies and crumbling tectonic plates of Sector V-23, a massive sinkhole shimmered like glass. The terrain was gravitationally unstable—gravity would shift directions every few seconds as if the world itself was rejecting entry.

Zeron gripped the controls of RazeWind, his violet Krono pulsing subtly.

"Is this really it…?" he muttered.

From the mist below, the city revealed itself.

Dranveil—a floating city buried beneath the surface, held in place by fractured energy rings spinning like gyroscopes. Ruins of airborne towers, upside-down highways, and floating platforms drifted like ghosts.

Aelira whispered, "A city suspended… in forgotten time."

🔐 Scene 2: The Krono Gate That Knows

As the team landed near the city's core, an obelisk of Krono crystal blocked the only entrance—covered in ancient glyphs. A whisper passed through the group's minds.

"Name… thyself… lost child."

Zake tried stepping forward. The obelisk rejected him with a sound like a heart breaking.

Zui touched it, and her mind was thrown into a memory—a flashback of another life.

She was not herself—but a woman in a white lab coat, shouting through explosions. Behind her, a baby with violet eyes cried as mechs fell from the skies.

Zui collapsed, breathing heavily.

"It… it doesn't respond to us. It wants memories that never existed… or maybe ones erased."

Zeron stepped forward.

As he reached the obelisk, it pulsed.

Then—

"Welcome, He Who Was Meant to Be Forgotten."

The path opened.

🧠 Scene 3: Glitch in the Core

Meanwhile, Zake's mech ChromeFist stuttered mid-hover, its systems flashing foreign runes.

"This… isn't normal. It's like it's seeing something I'm not."

Suddenly, a scream erupted—not from outside, but from inside the cockpit HUD. A boy's voice.

"Don't let it in, Zake! You're not real—none of us are!"

Zake yelled and forced a reboot.

Darin steadied him.

"Bro, you good?"

Zake stared into space.

"I think… I just spoke to a version of myself that doesn't exist anymore."

🏛️ Scene 4: City of Sleeping Codes

Inside Dranveil, the halls were lined with half-alive machinery. Robotic statues turned their heads slowly. Ancient drones zipped overhead, carrying code-etched scrolls.

"This place was a laboratory once," Aelira said.

"A Krono gene-lab. It wasn't just a city—it was where Krono was made."

Zui checked a console near the central pillar.

PROJECT: ORIGIN FRACTURE

She gasped. "They didn't discover Krono… They built it. It was artificial."

Zeron stared.

"Then… the alien invaders… aren't just fighting for dominance. They're coming back to claim what was theirs."

☠️ Scene 5: Eye of the Sleeper

The city rumbled.

Suddenly, every machine around them turned their heads toward a single chamber: a vault labeled SERAPHIM ZERO.

Inside floated a mech unlike any other—sleek, alive, breathing. Its eyes opened slowly.

And they glowed white.

"You should not be here," it spoke.

"You are the virus."

Zeron stepped forward.

"I'm here to fix this world."

The white-eyed mech whispered:

"Then you must first destroy it."

🔮 Chapter Preview – Chapter 136:

The white-eyed mech challenges Zeron to a trial inside a Krono-generated simulation of Earth's fall.Zui and Zake discover Seraphim Zero's pilot was a clone of Zeron made during the Origin Fracture.The Federation starts moving troops toward Dranveil under General Ryven's command.Aelira finds a broken diary left by someone named Vael Vex—Zeron's mother.