Superhuman Summoner (Apocalypse LitRPG, Deck Building, Harem)

Self-Published

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Description

Warren thought he would never return to the sleepy mountain town he grew up in, but when his father passes away, he heads home to settle his dad’s affairs. He’s barely there for a day before an ominous spaceship appears in the sky. He can only watch with horror as the craft disgorges hordes of terrifying creatures onto the defenceless town.

Just when he thinks all hope is lost, he gains the ability to control an alien magical device, allowing him to summon superhumans.

Now, Warren can call forth godlike warriors, assassins, and supernatural gunslingers to fight back against the invaders. Each of the summoned superhumans is bound to him and will share his fate if he falls.

But he’s not the only one with the ability to summon minions and he’s going to have to fight powerful alien squires if he’s going to retake his town. And if he doesn’t succeed, the human inhabitants will face a fate worse than death.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2025
Author: XPOverlord

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.1/ 5.0
Followers: 440
Views: 85,782

Chapters(48 total)

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Community Reviews(6)

LubjubRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I’m not familiar with some of the tropes used in the story so I had to google because I’m an uneducated rock dingus
The story begins with some wild stuff happening. A mighty boom, fighter jets scrambling all the while the cast just largely ignoring everything happening and having a good time until they no longer can’t, the usual stuff for apocalypse’s.
I’m not sure if the author intended it or not but I love how this feels like I’m reading a movie with its plot devices and how the writing descriptions and dialogues just come off the page. The invasion is a clear nod to a legendary Sci-Fi film and even joked about it within the story itself, but its distinctly unique and it really blends in well into how the deck elements become introduced later, which is certainly one of the highlights. It really goes in that apocalypse everything is screwed feeling with extracting the souls of dead around you.
Warren is a cool guy that is making the best of a shitty situation. I love his mannerisms and responses to things he’s so blase about it to the point I feel that he is basically alright with dying if it happened, his sister would be mighty peeved if he did though. Also…Kassandra what the f!
There was one or two hiccups with spellings but other than that I think the story was fantastically written.
I think this was a great story. I’m curious to see where it goes because all the little world building elements that were added like the different villainous factions (if they all are evil, who knows for sure but they probably are!) I didn’t mind what appeared from what I read in terms of the harem stuff. I was expecting some sort of eyesore material.
Highly recommend giving it a go I enjoyed the heck out of it.
Ps There’s also a secret horror element involving food fusion, that’s still massacring my brain.
SR FauthRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This has to be one of the most unique and interesting Deck Building LITRPG books I have read yet. There are a lot of interesting stories out there, but a harem-building super hero deck builder featuring modern-day alien invasions?
Thats a first.
Between the MC and his utter surprise at having any level of ability to resist the enemy combatants to the fact that his deck is made up of literally THE most interesting characters has me laughing, crying, and on the edge of my seat. I am definitely going to keep up on this one.
I gotta know what happens.
AquillanRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Not usually one for 'deck' games and styles of books but this seems to pull it off well. Could be fleshed out more with character interactions but the style is consistent across the story so not a problem.
Having not read the tags I didn't expect parts of the story, but over all not a huge problem. Just slightly obvious from the start haha
RaiUnoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
im normally not into the deckbuilding but this story works like a charm. The characters are nice and well written. Only piece of comment i can give is that its all so expectable. But with a story like this it didnt bothered me that much. If these kind of stories is your thing, you are really going to like this one.
This is to make the 50 words ending.
PossumBusinessRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
It's solid, middle of the road harem schlock. There's a place for it. I chugged through the first 28 chapters in an afternoon, which has to count for something I guess.
Opening chapter or two are very strong and feel very "cinematically" written, which was fun. There's some interesting breadcrumbs being dropped by the author that I can see them evolving into interesting points, and while there are occasional grammatical mistakes and they might benefit from a thesaurus (lotta "plump" lips), nothing was so egregious it took me out of it. The card gimmick so far is fine, but it nothing about it really jumps out at me either. There's better available and there's also much, much worse.
I'd give it 3/5, a solid passing grade, but on websites anything less than a 5 seems to be a death knell so I'm droppinga 4 star instead. It's not perfect but the author doesn't deserve to see their ratings tanked either.I wish you luck mate.
wargamer08Royal Road
★ 0.5
The story starts well with a pretty good introduction to the lead character and his situation. After a decent enough chase scene and a pretty terrible last stand the leading male protagonist gets his system. After which the story falls off a cliff.
After about 30 chapters the MC is still wandering around with no plan. His character is best described as Nice Guy TM. His deck system creates mostly useless drama factories instead of useful combatants. The villains are just the usual generic bad guys, all the evil traits with zero positive ones. There is zero chemistry between any of the supposed harem. It's just a mess.
The final thing that got me to just give up on the story is that we're told over and over that the MC's spastic and unplanned efforts are amazing. That no one else in the world is advancing as fast as he is, that his progress is incredible compared to the invaders.
TLDR, the MC is generic, impulsive and lame; while the harem is a drama factory with zero heat.