A Dream Harem Life Built With Superior Firepower

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A nerdy engineer was brutally murdered with regrets in his heart. When he transmigrated into a magical world of Knights and Mages, he decided to live for himself this time around and to chase after his longtime dream- to start a big family filled with love and lots of kids from lots of wives! In order to protect himself and his loved ones in this harsh new world, he resourcefully forged era-ending weapons never meant to be fired in this world. To the Knights, Mages, Emperors, and even the Gods of this world, he proclaimed, “me transire, si audes! (cross me, if you dare!)”[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]Will aim for Monday+Friday releases to keep pace with the challenge

***Author's Note:

This novel is a love letter to the nerd culture that had kept me sane during the COVID lockdowns. It took me a while to gather the courage to write (and to actually write it), but I’m glad that I was able to explore some serious IRL themes in the comforts of an old-fashioned isekai fantasy novel. I fully recognize that the divisive topic of harems is a tricky one to navigate, but I think I did the topic justice by having fully fleshed out female leads with their own ideals and motivations instead of being masturbatory cardboard cutouts with no agency. So please give it a try and leave a review!

This is my first novel, so please mind the inevitable rookie mistakes. This is a non-system novel with 1st-person narration, so I sure didn’t make it easy on myself (or my MC- poor dude had to earn every advantage he'd get). I haven’t seen a lot of ongoing #KingdomBuilding webnovels in RoyalRoad. So I decided to be the change I wanted to see in the world. So let’s hope my attempt would inspire more of my #KingdomBuilding homies to jump in the ring!

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Runaway_Cactuar

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.1/ 5.0
Followers: 706
Views: 355,186

Chapters(60 total)

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Community Reviews(6)

D.J. RintoulRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Having now read further than any of the other reviewers at the time they reviewed this story, I finally feel comfortable writing my review.
This is easily one of the best stories I've read on Royal Road, and as far as I'm concerned, it's a minor crime that it's got only four stars out of five in the aggregated reviews. It's also a minor tragedy that this series has been on hiatus for months, but as someone who's writing something to publish here right now, I can understand the frustration of creating something and not wanting to continue if it hasn't properly caught on. Frankly, I think the fact that this series hasn't taken off is more of a problem with Royal Road than with the story.
The story is a very thoughtfully constructed one about a main character who is Isekai'd to a medieval setting in another world. He decides he wants to build a big family and die surrounded by his harem and numerous children, which is successfully framed as an almost wholesome ambition. His only particular ability is that he can perfectly recall things from his other world, which allows him to work to build weaponry that emulates the effectiveness of weaponry from our world, which is naturally more effective than anything in a fantasy world of sword and sorcery. Although this is not a totally original idea, I give the execution high marks. The story gets you invested in the character and the future he's going to build for himself and the people closest to him. It contains appropriate challenges for the main character and his allies/burgeoning family, and you can feel a sense of future threat.
The main character gets my investment, because he has few of the virtues I dislike, and many of the vices I admire. He is not sanctimonious, squeamish, or overly scrupulous. He is determined, loyal, and brave. If other people reviewing this story think the protagonist is near-psychopathic, they must not have dealt very much with genuinely frightening people.
We are not descended from fearful men.
maxamilRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've found the story very interesting and satisfying so far it's only up to 18 chapters so it's still fairly new. Like the author mentioned it's kinda the stereotypical isekia storyline but I find it unique and a very good read. The characters are a little lacking but that's also because of the storyline itself
The main character is abit of a isolationist but that makes since from what we know and what his goals are so the remaining characters are a little lacking but I think it all makes since and the few characters we started to be introduced to in the last few chapters I found very interesting and I'm intrigued to learn more about them and see their interactions with the main character
and I'm sure as it develops we'll get more. Personally I really enjoy all the characters although we haven't gone too deep into any of them besides the main character. This is one of my favorite reads so far in fact I made an account just to review this story and I read all that's been published so far in one night staying up until about 4pm because it had me so hooked. I also liked how it started out with a prologue so you could get a better feel for the story and how it was going to play out this is the first story I've seen use that and I enjoyed the quick read beforehand.
LeckanRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
To start with, the story seems decent overall so far. Writing is ok and the storyline is pretty good too. A bit interesting to balance a storyline of more power to women with a harem power fantasy though. Personally i would have liked a more advanced magic system, as it stands it looks like you pretty much are born ready to cast archmage spells (with the correct manastone) or you can't. No way to change it and no way to do anything except for predefined spells. The modern weapon angle is pretty fun to read about and the implementation is decent. As the story progresses it runs the risk of making it really hard to write good fight scenes though. With him just murdering everyone with machine guns. If the focus of the story is basebuilding with the harem it might work out fine though.
With that said, the main thing pulling this story down is not the protagonist but everyone else. In true manga/anime style the bad characters in the story are all super obviously bad with no nuance and completely retarded. This in itself pretty much makes this a power fantasy since he can just outsmart everyone at every turn. That is a big minus for me.
But i will keep reading it, as i said at the start, the story is still good for a nice read and harem stories are a guilty pleasure of mine.
P.s. killing off pretty girls in a harem story? Shame on you.
TealiciousTeaRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
The harem genre
I don't think you can be clearer in your messaging than this author is. It is tagged.
The Harem issue is more divisive and complex than can be detailed in one review.
On the base point, it is within the sites rules so it is fine. Further, the growth of the genre can be put to its fanbase, and dedicated writers.
However, people have valid issues with the genre. I know I have some and have writtem about them. What is beyond criticism in this world? But, the fact that there are critques implies the influence of the genre. It is is a reason to review a harem story it is a part of the Royal Road landscape.
Not that one has to like the genre! But there are readers who do. That is where clear tagging comes in.
My view of a Harem in fiction, at the baseline, I take to be three or more partners all passionately desiring one protagnist. There is of course much variety that can be taken from there.
When a triad, the smallest of communties adores one individual that is the conceit of harem fiction.
It is also likely that there is going be a sexual gaze throughout the fiction. Not a subtle one either. Most humour and so on will focus on sex. It is very much a sexualised project. That is what it is, and the standard I will review it by.
Side point, at least of what I read I am grateful that I didn't read minors getting sexualised. I don't care what loopholes are made, I never want to read it. So I'm glad this story focuses on consent and I hope enjoyment for all partners invovled.
Style -
Anyone bold enough to put R-18 rating in universe has style.
I do feel like the dream sequence of chapter two could be introduced more smoothly. For an author than gives so much expostion not telling the reader we are starting the chapter in a dream seems an odd creative choice?
But, I am told a whole lot of information I don't need or want explained to me. In non-fiction a clear explantion is useful. In fiction it is boring detail that is a distraction from the cool fantasy worl
RedPineRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Story, characters, etc. are decent. Worldbuilding, consistency, etc are excellent. I don't write reviews about such things.
Where the story will lose you - or win you over, tastes differ - is that the MC is a few shades to the darker side of pragmatic, with a side of vengeful and moral relativism.
Example: he spends the start of his life in the military of a slightly despotic kingdom, where killing "illegal settlers" is part of his job. This happens off screen, but he apparently was good at this job. Said "illegal settlers" are often former legal settlers that got abandoned by said kingdom. Then, he becomes an "illegal settler", using his past work experience to defend himself from his former comrades in arms.
On its own, this would merely be a sad and complex tale. Thats not the case. The MC is 90% psychopath, with shockingly few moral compunctions. Hes not 100% logical either, hes too vengeful for that.
His morality basically boils down to relativism, pragmatism, and his mood. Hes a fine guy to friends and family, and *usually* to civilians, but everyone else he meets is at the mercy of luck and circumstances.
Hes the sort whose concious operates by asking "would this make me feel bad" instead of "is this bad?"
alphaReviewsRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
For me, the story is very flawed.
For one, the MC is developing external rather than internal power. In martial arts, you learn how weapons can be taken away from you and easily used against you, hence why it is better to have internal power.
Most fantasies are about developing internal power, which is much more satisfying.
The MC is building a whole pile of modern weapons that, baring plot armor, would just end up being used against him.
Next, the objective of the MC's group is to build a naive utopia where the state takes care of people, so people can be lame and have an easy life. It seems extremely foolish and ill-thought out, as it seems they don't understand the difference between 'teaching people how to fish' (giving them wings) and 'feeding people' (turning them into bums).
Finally, the MC doesn't seem to understand how being too straightforward and earnest is normally a turn off for women (plot armor takes care of that issue, however).
I think the MC is attractive in this story mainly because the world they live in otherwise has only abusive men, so a 'nice guy' seems better.
(Also, the chosen font is extremely large, perhaps meant for mobile phones? It is awkward when read on a computer)