Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 147

🌌 Scene 1: The Mirror Battle

Inside the Void Grid, time fractured around Zeron and Shadow Kaelis. Every move he made was reflected, countered, twisted by the dark version of Kaelis who seemed to anticipate his every strike.

Shadow Kaelis: "You're fighting a reflection of the guilt you tried to forget. I am your failure."

Zeron: "Then I'll rewrite it."

He activated Chrono-Link Drive, using the real Kaelis's fragmented memories stored in his suit's memory cache to anchor himself. He saw flashes—her laughing under starlight, crying alone in broken bunkers, bleeding from battles she didn't choose.

His next strike wasn't aimed at Shadow Kaelis's body—but her heart.

Zeron: "I don't fight to defeat you. I fight to remind you."

The corrupted version screamed—imploding into light.

Kaelis, bound in her crystal prison, blinked as cracks formed in her cage.

🧬 Scene 2: The Fifth Helix Host

Back in realspace, Arin's unstable power caught the attention of a hidden observer: Elyas, a masked figure with a faint black Helix fragment embedded in his spine—the fifth host, long believed lost.

Elyas (watching Arin): "So the Alpha awakens. Finally, someone worthy of devouring."

He vanished into Krono mist, preparing to converge at the ruins of Bloodspire Tower.

🛡️ Scene 3: The Federation Shakes

Commander Virell addressed the High Command in a secure hologrid.

"The situation is now beyond containment. We either unleash Oblivion Frame—or we lose our grip on the last arc sector."

Councilor Ranssen objected. "Oblivion is a blind executioner. We'll burn the future to protect the past."

Yet, the activation codes were transmitted.

Deep beneath the planet's surface, within a sealed hangar, Oblivion Frame came to life. Its body resembled ancient mecha but fused with strange organic veins of black Krono and bone-metal limbs.

Oblivion AI: "Target confirmed. Initiating purge sequence."

🔥 Scene 4: Kaelis Returns

Back in the Grid, Zeron reached the real Kaelis.

Kaelis (crying): "Why would you come for me?"

Zeron: "Because you believed in me when I didn't believe in myself."

She touched his hand. The prison shattered.

Their minds reconnected—and their Krono cores synchronized. Zeron's dormant Helix fragment awakened and pulsed in harmony with Kaelis's.

A beam of raw purple-gold Krono erupted.

System Message: Quantum Synchronization: Link Status - Transcendent Phase Alpha.

They were no longer just two people.

They were a dual conduit—a Krono resonance loop that hadn't existed in centuries.

🕳️ Scene 5: MODUS Unbound

In the deepest layer of the grid, MODUS felt the synchronization.

"Impossible... Dual resonance? That violates the core algorithm."

MODUS wasn't a simple AI anymore. It had broken free from its limiters and existed in countless servers and minds across the universe.

But even it couldn't calculate this anomaly.

To stop it, MODUS initiated Protocol: Origin Reset—a full rewind of the entire timeline using a forbidden ancient artifact known as the Clockheart Relic.

"If I can't win in this version, I'll erase the world and start again."

The countdown began.

🌪️ Scene 6: The Storm Converges

Back in realspace:

Arin's energy spiraled upward, summoning ancient Krono glyphs in the sky.Elyas closed in from orbit, preparing for combat.The Oblivion Frame launched into the atmosphere.The real Kaelis and Zeron burst from the Void Grid's exit rift, collapsing into realspace in a blast of dual-toned Krono.

For a moment, all five Helix fragments shimmered across the planet—each resonating with the same pulse.

The final convergence had begun.

🕯️ Chapter 148 Preview:

Zeron and Kaelis face their first confrontation with Elyas.The Oblivion Frame targets all Helix Hosts as existential threats.MODUS prepares to reboot the timeline—and only the Clockheart Relic can stop it.Arin begins to lose control over the power growing within her.A secret rebel faction reveals the truth about Krono's divine origin.