EPISODE 58 — The Second Fall of the Reflection
⚔️ EPISODE 58 — The Second Fall of the Reflection
🩸 Part 2 of the battle between Vaël-Mir and Reck-Zhôr (duration: 3 episodes)
🎖️ Subtitle: "The Body that Escapes Time."
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🎬 SCENE 1: The Broken Mirror World — Pursuit in the Ruins of Echoes
📍 Location: The Fragment-Earth of Echoes, a dimension that collapsed following the explosion of the mirror arena (end of episode 57).
The ground is fragmented like a shattered sphere. Gravity is unstable. Half-open temporal corridors spit out parasitic images.
🌪️ Reality is swaying. Reflections move without following bodies.
> 💬 Oxarys (mental voice spread across several layers):
"The fight has left the surface. It is now at the heart of who you really are."
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🎬 SCENE 2: Vaël-Mir chases Reck-Zhôr through 6 physical zones
Zone 1: Inverted Stairs
Vaël runs headfirst. His sabres reform into liquid tendrils.
Reck jumps backwards, leaving behind a temporal grenade: a trap that reverses the direction of momentum for 0.9 seconds.
➡️ Vaël crashes into a space-negative wall, fracturing his left shoulder.
Zone 2: Corridor of Instants
Reck runs through portals. Each step teleports him one second further into reality.
Vaël stops time by planting his two sabres in his own feet:
> "If he runs into the future, I'll force him back into my present."
🌟 Gravitational impact: a reverse explosion that throws Reck into the open.
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🎬 SCENE 3: Total Physical Technique — Hand-to-hand combat
They meet in the Zero-Rotation Zone: here, there is neither speed nor slowness.
🩸 Vaël's combo:
1. Reverse knee strike ➜
2. Palm strike ➜
3. Blade twisted into the stomach ➜
4. Mirror scratch to the face ➜
🔥 Damage: Open wounds + slowed reflexes.
🧠 Reck's counter-combo:
1. Mental arm twist ➜
2. Heel strike to the lungs ➜
3. Double elbow block ➜
🔥 Damage: Difficulty breathing + micro-fractures to Vaël's ribs.
> 💢 They move away, wounded and panting. The scenery flickers. Both fall into the Physical Exhaustion Fault.
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🎬 SCENE 4: Exhaustion Fault — Surviving with nerves
Their bodies are slowed down to 10%.
They can no longer use secondary powers, only nerves, bones, strategy, intuition.
🧠 Reck attempts to project a memory, but it is his own regret that strangles him: he sees again the moment when he erased his past to become a fractal warrior.
💬 Reck-Zhôr (on the ground):
"If I lose... I lose two versions of myself. And the one I've become doesn't even deserve to survive."
🗡️ Vaël gets up, her arm broken:
"You trained me to eliminate you. So today, you're the one who's afraid of me."
She rips a broken blade from her own rib, forming a vibrating needle, and leaps towards Reck.
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🎬 SCENE 5: Cliffhanger — The Suspended Moment
📍 They clash in high rotation, in a final downward spiral.
Their bodies fall through the last barrier of physical reality of the Echo Fragment-Earth.
Vaël plunges her weapon.
Reck blocks...
But his arm disintegrates under the memory pressure.
✨ They fall into an Unknown White Zone.
> Final text:
"To be continued in episode 59 — The Ashes of Those Who Did Not Give Up
Third and final episode of the battle."