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Slime Sovereign: Hiding inside a living city that exposes everything

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Three months ago, I was human. Now I’m a slime hiding in Thornhaven—the most powerful living city in the world—pretending to belong while my own body fights to fall apart. I came here as a refugee looking for safety. What I found instead was a city that sees everything, a system built from living magic, and rules designed to expose anything that doesn’t belong. Including me. Thornhaven’s Core Tree, the ancient source of its power, is dying from something unnatural. A corruption no healer can understand. Every attempt I make to fix it pushes my own form closer to collapse, like my existence itself is the price. But the infection isn’t random. Someone is doing this on purpose. People inside the city are being altered—turned into crystallized, obedient things that still move, still act, still follow orders. Experiments disguised as salvation. A hidden army being built under the city’s protection. And the one behind it is not a monster in the shadows. He is a noble the city trusts. He believes Thornhaven is broken. And he is fixing it by rewriting what people are allowed to be. I didn’t come here to be a hero. I came here to survive. But now I’m the only thing standing between Thornhaven and a future where everyone becomes something less than human. The only problem is, saving the city might destroy what’s left of me first.
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