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As Ex-Machina In No Game No Life: Zero

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To be reborn is to awaken in hell. One moment, he was Arden, a normal person living a normal life. The next, he was a ghost in a shell of steel and synthetic sinew, standing under a sky choked with the ash of a six-thousand-year apocalypse. This was the world of No Game No Life: Zero a crucible where gods and monsters tore creation asunder, and he had been cast into it as one of the Ex-Machina, a living weapon cut off from the hive mind that gave his kind purpose. Survival was not a game; it was an equation with no positive solution. But in the ruins of a forgotten battlefield, he stumbled upon a grim miracle: the body of another fallen traveler from another Earth. And within the corpse, a whisper of impossible technology lingered. [Viable Host Detected. Binding to Dimensional Travel Unit...] 
[Welcome, User. Initializing System.] In a world ruled by genocidal deities and cosmic law, this was an alien power. A loophole. A glitch in reality's code. It was his only chance.
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Wolf Princess Sold to the Dragon King

"Take me instead." Three words. Guinevere Lunaris trades herself and saves 300 lives. Tied. Gagged. Underestimated by a mile. They chain her to a tree in the snow. Mistake. While running for her life, she meets a stranger in the dark and tells him to hide so he isn’t killed. Twelve hours later, he walks into her father's hall wearing a crown. The man she just told to hide in a hole is Maddox Drakencrest, High King of Velkaris. Ruler of an entire continent. Maddox hears his dragon say ‘mate’ right away. But her wolf is silent. More and more Alpha Kings enter the hall. She catches the tail end of her father’s toast and chokes on her wine. "—leave here with a virgin bride." An auction for her hand turns into a full-out bidding war. Maddox wins. 750 million in gold, three dragon fleets, and an urn full of the bastard who chained her the day before. Every force in Velkaris is betting against a wolf on a dragon throne. The Elders say the queen must be a dragon rider, which is impossible for a woman without dragon blood. The king's half-brother agrees with them, but his solution is a civil war and taking the crown for himself. If his brother’s rebellion wins, Maddox dies and she belongs to him. If the elders win, she goes back to the father who sold her. Neither is happening. Her wolf calls Velkaris home. She's not giving it up. They expect Guinevere to behave like a good little wolf princess and play along with their political games. She says bet.
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272 Days Until...

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