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The Mechanical Deity

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[OVERCLOCK]!! Life as a low class slumdog was all that Adelaide had. With his days spent scavenging in the toxic waste zone, and the nights spent sleeping under the creaking towers of high-tech junk. His life changed on the day he found a strange, lifeless crystal buried beneath piles of junk. The crystal was anything but ordinary. One pulse of energy and Adelaide’s world shattered—literally. When he woke up, he saw that he was in a completely different body, in a completely new world, with memories that weren’t his. Now going by Rion Hale, a sixteen-year-old human with a hidden potential, Adelaide finds himself in a world where the rules are not quite what he was used to. Instead of the supremacy of technology, the world was teeming with Cultivators who wielded supernatural powers through a force called Origin Energy. But all hope is not lost. Armed with the knowledge he brought with him, he uses his Resonance ability, an uncommon Adept power that allows him to harmonize with machines, amplifying their capabilities far beyond their design limits, to become what would eventually be known as the Deity of Machinery. Armed with ingenuity, inherited memories, and a supernatural gift tied to technology, Rion walks a fine line between two identities and two worlds. But as forces from his new world begin to take interest in him, one thing becomes clear. He didn’t just cross into a new world. He might be the one to change it forever.
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Crown of Thorns and Roses.

Those who fail him, they claim, are consumed by his gardens. They are unaware, though, that I have been talking to plants my whole life—and now the fate of the kingdom hinges on their response. I wanted no attention at all. Enough risk is involved growing illegal miraculous blossoms in my small rural garden. However, I find the reason the king's gardens are withering and why all five gardeners before me have vanished when royal guards transport me to the palace. The gardens provide more than only aesthetic purposes. They're the kingdom's last defense. Constant observation by Crown Prince Thorne, his silver eyes frigid as the winter gradually kills his territory. The court mumbles he killed the past gardeners for failing, but I detect despair in his eyes. Each day I coax life from the wilting magical plants, I feel the protective wards strengthening. Each night, I sense the shadowy creatures straining our bounds, getting stronger, hungrier. Should I fail, I should detest the haughty prince threatening punishment. Instead, I find myself pulled to the man beneath the thorny crown—a monarch willing to become the villain in whispered legends if it means saving his people. As my power develops with odd new blossoms no one has seen before, so does the threat. The prince's foes conspire within the royal walls, the magical barriers decrease with each passing day, and my heart treacherously softens toward the man who cannot afford to love me back. They believe his gardens eat those who disappoint him. What they don't know is what happens when a wild magic like mine begins to overwhelm me.
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