Technomancer: Birth of a Goddess

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"I'm starting to think you're the scariest monster in here." - And that's just what her friends say about her. When Emily Coldstone discovers the lightning gem in the smouldering ruins of a crashed airship, her own fate, along with that of those she loves and those she hates, is sealed. Experimenting with the gem’s powers, Emily is awakened as a Mage and finds herself inducted into a secret world of magic by a mysterious entity, who sets her a task that will take her from the slums of her birth to war in the far reaches of space. For Emily is far more powerful than anyone could have imagined. Not only is Emily a Mage, she is a Mechanic; her talents combining to create a Technomancer, a being capable of building herself an indestructible body, an army of spell-flinging robots, and her very own time machine. The universe will know her wrath! What to expect: -A steampunk era starter planet with a secret magic society -A main character who will be broken down and rebuilt into a magical cyborg killing machine -A dash of physics -A squeeze of magic -A sprinkling of girl's love -And eventual space pirates! Cover art by @Jeroosama on instagram. I do own the commercial rights.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: Keron

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 1,820
Views: 1,198,868

Chapters(261 total)

What readers say about Technomancer: Birth of a Goddess

“Lots of people for the protagonist to dunk on. She is charming. Magic system is still early but has potential to be good. Also love to have a protagonist overthrow a corrupt system which seems likely. The voice is unique and definitely caught me off guard a…”
KaelikRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“I'm loving the story so far! The worldbuilding is cleverly integrated and really interesting, I'm lookin forward to exploring more later. I'm also loving the main character and the relationships that are starting to be built with the side characters. The ac…”
AzerithRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

KaelikRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Lots of people for the protagonist to dunk on. She is charming. Magic system is still early but has potential to be good.
Also love to have a protagonist overthrow a corrupt system which seems likely. The voice is unique and definitely caught me off guard at first but the 3rd person present omniscient is refreshing and grew on me quickly.
AzerithRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'm loving the story so far! The worldbuilding is cleverly integrated and really interesting, I'm lookin forward to exploring more later.
I'm also loving the main character and the relationships that are starting to be built with the side characters. The action scenes are also written very well and are easy to visualize which I like.
Keep up the good work!
lalacsulalacRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Cool story. I like the magic and mechanic system. It is well fleshed out and explained. The time travel is there without feeling OP, making limitations clear near the beginning of the story. Major points from me for getting the chanting out early. I hate it, it's not realistic in combat so all a mage would have to do is listen to as many as possible and know what they mean to counter. Keep it up.
Wet pandaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Really enjoying how the magic and mechanics systems are shaping up and all the cool stuff the MC makes. At first I thought the time looping was a little underutilized but it made sense to no relive school day over and over again but using it like she did during later chapter was good.
5/5 thoroughly enjoying it so far would recommend 👌
CyellRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The plot moves very quickly from revenge to Magical Shool as a commoner surrounded by many nobles. Related to this, there are also some nobles who, like in most other similar novels, think they are better and a few who are very nice.
Until now there are not to many important characters, besides the MC we have (in my Opinion) more or less 2 to 3 Important caracters and some side cracters.
The MC is really good written, but most of the other characters are very flat and don't have much about them other than one or two character traits like talking a lot. Of course, it is difficult to give depth to several characters and to write them in a more varied way, but it would be very nice to have 2 ore 3 Characters more.
What I really like are the fight and action scenes. There aren't too many of them
and the rest of the story also builds up to the scenes well.
They're also not too overwhelming or make you feel like everyone else except MC is an idiot.
The shortcomings won't stop me from reading the Novel and it can always get better with more writting experience (and feedback).
I really think, Emily should use the Clock more often.
They were no drawbacks in the description of the Clock for using (besides she can only teavel up to 24 Hours back)
There were several oportunitys for here to save Manacrystals ore to have the knowledge of some fights that could help here.
meir218Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
i dont like it becouse it is tragic and she isnt really op
but on the other hand i love the action so overall 4 out of 5 stars thank you for the book but i think i will take a break i hope you get more good reviews and i hope you continue to write more good books
ps. i might read more fo your books
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uxelRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
TLDR:
The start of the novel is very good. Afterwards it continues at rather average quality.
Plot:
One would expect this to be a revenge story first and foremost, however after the start the usual school story starts. (yet another magic school story...) This by itself is not really that big of a deal however it makes the main plot lose focus somewhat in my opinion. There are several chapters spent on mc goofing about with classmates aswell as getting involved in things she really should have no business/reason getting involved in, (all under the assumption that mc really only cares about getting her revenge)
Characters:
MC is well written. The side characters are however mostly annoying. They feel one dimensional in a sense. Here be stereotypical idiot character that wants to be mc's friends. Here be stereotypical gl love intrest character for mc. It all feels very unauthentic. I initally was under the assumption that mc does not really want to get involved with these people and focus on the revenge plot and author is just doing it to have some pieces in play to set the scene, but the more I follow the story the more I think that at least some of those characters are meant to stick around for a bit. I personally am also not a fan of the romance in this. I dont like gl romance in general but i will not hold this against the novel as it was mentioned in the cover text. The romance present here just as the characters however feels very unauthentic and rather forced to me. At least there is no smut here so I can just ignore it.
World:
Intresting world, no inconsistencies that I could find in world building so far.
Action:
Very good. No complaints
Closing thoughts:
I will carry on reading this and unless ive dropped the novel will update this review. Ive pretty much accepted the shortcommings described above for what they are and am looking forward for what author does after the school arc. That will at least for me decide if this novel justifies a 4/5 or should remain
SuteruRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
I really like the world building and details of the system,as well the MC.
But please pleaseeee no stilted and forced conversation and fake /stereotypical relationship with that Madonna girl. I think you are forcing it here really extremely to become a lesbian relationship. Just my thoughts though. Maybe that's not your intention. A gradual relationship progressing would fit better at this stage.
But anyways really thank you for this great story and keep up the good work.
useless lesbianRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
*over all i enjoyed my time with this series and will come back later to finish it, mentioning this as my reviews tend to be overly negative not focusing on stuff liked or loved.*
STORY: Over all the story is serviceable and if not much of a highlight of the fiction as it quickly turns into a power fulled by revenge. While this isnt nesicarly my favorite cup of tea so take this in account in my review. This is as it has some interesting ideas executed to various degrees of success. The main gimmick of the series is that the main character is able to time travel 24 hours in the past with no limit, while this can be and interesting i find it is a little too much and makes the whole plot somewhat boring as you know the outcome of every fight and negative event. I get its a power fantasy so the main character is supposed to become really powerful fast but she already has a chosen one skill and a system wich gives her a huge leg up compared to everyone else making her reduculesly powerfull. The Clock could still be implemented but with a shorter time like 5 minutes or coping league of legions wich has a 6 second rewind if i remember correctly. On a different note the set up and character motivations are pritty interesting espeshaly with how the noble house thinks they control her.
CHARACTER: The main charicters motivations are relatively well set up, with the classic family member dies leads to revenge charicter trait serving as her motive and justification. She is also kind enough person and willing to help out those close to her, with a good example of this is her learning to sign to communicate with a friend. I would like for other charicters to be flushed out a little more and espeshaly her love intrest who is kinda one note with conflict only revolving around not liking violence yet she is till with somone who is basically an arms dealer.
SETTING: While i am kinda biased due to my love for steam punk i found the world to be pretty enjoyable with some flaws. The main
StormblesssedRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The story started out oh so well. We have a smart MC who is willful and shows plenty of agency. The world seems interesting and the premise is exciting. At this point I would have happily given the story 5 stars! 😊
Then the MC inexplicitly changes and suddenly forgets about her brain cells and also that she used to have any sort of will as she gives up wayyyyyy to easily.
The Author gives reasons for why things turned out this way in the author notes. But sadly the reasons given are reasons for the Author to have things turn out that way. The MC does not have the reasons that the Author does. As such the whole situation feels less like the narrative of the story, and more like the Author ticking off checkmark that they felt needed to happen. I hope there is a way to fix this as the story really does have such great potential at the start. Sadly the story dropped from 5 stars to 3 stars quickly due to this. 😞
Edit:
I tried to keep going past this, but my immersion was ruined as I couldn't stop thinking about the MC's sudden case of the stupids and lack of will. I just know that any time anything to do with this series of events is brought up it will just make me annoyed again and I won't be able to continue enjoying the story.
I am no author and I doubt I could do better, but my advise for the Author on what would make the story seem better to me (and possibly only me 🤣) is as follows:
Remember that the characters decisions should reflect what the CHARACTER has information on and their motivations. The characters should NOT make decisions based on the AUTHOR'S motivations and knowledge. This is a quick way to make the character feel inconsistent and break immersion as it just feels.... wrong and weird.
Best of luck Author!