A group magic between members of a harem, needing intimacy (not quite love but a feeling stronger than friendship and at least some gesture of affection - often kissing is enough) to be put into effect. It functions in structure oddly similar to a deck of cards, something that was discovered, not designed.
A king or a queen, depending on gender, will be the ruler of the harem. Another member of an Anomalia will take the position of the other card and be the head. Usually, this takes the form of a male king as the ruler and a female queen that is the head of the harem. Along with the Jack and the Ace, the named cards have special powers associated with them.
The King/Ruler is the lynchpin of the entire power structure. If he is taken out, the Anomalia loses its power until he regains consciousness. He can mentally communicate with the other members of his harem at a limited range and a grade of detail that scales with intimacy between the parties. In a sexual setting, his actions are more pleasurable for members of his Anomalia. At high levels, things such as command triggered orgasms are possible.
The Queen/Head benefits from a lesser version of her King’s mental communication abilities and governs over a reservoir of magic that builds up between all members of the Anomalia in times of peace, capped in strength depending on the members. She can freely use this power to strengthen the attacks of herself or a chosen member of the harem in her vicinity.
The Jack can temporarily copy a lesser version of another members Artefact abilities. This makes them highly adaptable fighters in the field.
The Ace wields the Anomalia Artefact, a manifestation of the harem’s combined personality. This gives them strong duelling or generally quite wild and unpredictable powers. An Ace’s powers are often hidden as they are used as their synonym – a trump card.
Along with this, each Anomalia has a maximum size dictated by their members combat strength in relation to the King. Each member consumes a card of the set, ranging from 2 to 10. The card consumed is similar with their power in relation to the King. A person as strong as the King will consume the card with the number 10, a person with only half his strength the 5. Several cards may be taken for one person, allowing people stronger than the King to join the Anomalia. A person slightly stronger than the King may consume the 9 and the 2, for example.
This sets the maximum number of active members in an Anomalia at eight, as even the special cards consume number cards. This is not necessarily a limit to harem building, as more people can be initiated into an Anomalia – they just won’t be able to all benefit from being an active card at all times. Numbered cards can be withdrawn and reassigned between initiated individuals with minimal effort. Special cards, however, can not be withdrawn with significant effort that makes a re-initation necessary, which can happen a month after the separation at the earliest.
Aside from the cards themselves, the set one is part of also has some effects. The set is dictated by the ruler’s personality.
Spade Anomalia’s make their members sturdier and able to suffer more damage, a shield born from their ruler’s spirit shielding them. Their ruler is often found at the frontline and enjoys a general boost of power themselves. In character, their ruler’s are usually stern, principled and compliant with the law.
Heart Anomalia’s enjoy the ability to break the limitation of a maximum of eight member by being able to separate cards instead of just joining them. Their queen also counts as its own five number card. Joined, this gives Heart Anomalia’s an advantage in numbers. Ruler’s of Hearts are typically charming, sociable and noble.
Diamond Anomalia’s are the faction of the specialized. Members of these harem’s have their individual powers, magic and artefacts, amplified. The Anomalia Artefact of the group is also stronger than of other sets, giving the Ace extra strength. Ruler’s of Diamond’s embody the attributes of high individualism, whimsicalness and a love for freedom.
Cross Anomalia’s are have the special attribute of gaining an extra one on the value of their cards, if they are stacked with another. A 2 and a 3 would combine into a 6, a 2,3 and 4 into a 11, an extra for each additional card in a stack. As such, Cross Anomalia’s are usually made up of few, elite individuals. Their Jack is also able to copy the powers of up to two members simultaneously. Rulers of Crosses are usually cunning, bold and prideful.
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An extremely well-written story about a whimsical philosopher-poet-cum-casanova building a harem in a higher dimension.
Karitas is fun to read about. His life, love, and the trials in between.
The chapters are long but never dull or boring.
The grammar is near perfect, the plot is s*xy and enticing, while the heroines are both of those things, while also having flaws.
I hope to see more Karitas/Esther/Anomalia antics and character development in the future.
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It is actually really good. Chapter length is long like 10, 000 words each chapter. One chap per month honestly feels like you forget what has happened in the last chapter by the time you read the next one. Other than the really slow pace it's really good for characters and worldbuilding. One thing I reckon is the setting will almost always be set while Karitas is in university so you know how that can be.
I would recommend though its really interesting to read even about the slightly mundane aspects of Karitas' life
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Simply amazing, I was familiar with the author branch of the gamer but I had no idea he wrote an original novel (im familiar with drip-fed but never made the connection), when I saw someone mention this one I had to give it a try and man im glad I did. Not sure how this isnt more popular but I hope it gets there.
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One of the best written Harem stories here although it has more slice of life vibe to it. Realistic approach to dating and progress towards a heroine makes it a very rare novel on this site. Only con here is it will take too long to finish with one chapter per month (divided in parts) but its free and the author is a professional so iam not complaining.
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Fantastic book, to be honest it's one of the best creations on this site and as a webnovel in general. Each chapter is fairly long (about 10k each) so don't let the number of chapters dissuade you.
As for the book content you can already figure out stuff out if you look at the tags, it is quite romance heavy and not as action packed as I thought it would be compared to the author's other creation (Drip-fed), but if you like Slice of Life stuff this would be a great read to you.
The Harem building aspect is not there yet but the author laid down some heavy groundwork in terms of worldbuilding, and the book itself focuses mostly on the MC romancing one character, Which is nice compared to other novels which the MC gets women left and right without really interacting with them too much.
Everything about the writing is pretty much top notch whether it's the lore, characters, dialogue, storytelling, descriptions and the small amount of action is also excellent.
Thank you for the awesome work Funatic.
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TLDR - JUST READ IT! You will not be disappointed.
So pleased to be able to start reading Book 2 of Karitas's ascent to greatness. Welldark, the mage academy is a well thought out environment, the overall world building and justification of the MC's situation is logical and consistent in itself, so I've not had any "what the f....?" moments, everything that happens seems true to life for the situation (sorry for being a bit vague, but I'm trying hard not to put spoilers in here).
The author has a way with words, crafting a story line-by-line that grips you and leaves you only disappointed that you've (once again) reached the end of the chapter and now have to wait until the next one is posted.
The MC and all the other characters are fully-fleshed out, with little quirks and mannerisms that mean they seem 'real' and it is like you 'know' them, and the interaction and dialogue between all of them is really good and flows naturally so very believable. The plot/story itself is well paced, never seeming too slow or rushed.
The s*x is written well enough to be high-quality erotica, both stimulating but also adding to the emotional connection between the characters, never forced into the story or gratuitous, the author has a rare skill in this area.
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At the end of book one it is a really well written romantic story with a very well done Charakter developement. It introduced a world where polygamy is not unusual and while giving short introductions of different aspects of this world the focus was on 2 Main characters, few side characters and especially their relations.
The story isn't has very few with random one-chapter encounters or at least they are introduced in a way or a position that makes it seem like they will returnn in future books which something I really value since this is the internet and stories with 10 bilion Characters per chapter that never come back aren't unusual.
Yeah - - - I fell like I should write more but I hope this is enough to get an impression of the book?
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The First book of a series with a lot of books I hope.
You follow Caritas with his start at a Magic University where the majority is female because of the magic system this world has.
Harems are the norm and he is open about wanting one.
This first book focuses on the foundations, his classes, friends and his conquering or seducing of his Queen.
It is a slice of life, philosophy, seduction and a school every reader would like to visit in one book.
The Grammer is a superb result of multiple proofreaders and one round of edits.
Characters and their growth are on the level I started to expect from the author and are the main reasons why I´m reading his works.
You will not find stagnant unchanging characters in his works and the quality of his work speaks for itself.
Storywise I already spoilered the main point of this first book and I do not want to spoiler more but you should stop reading this and start reading the story and see for yourself.
It is fun no pun here and is very enjoyable to read.
Style-wise we follow Caritas in his classes and work it is told from his perspective and his thoughts.
If you know the works of this Author you already know some things like Acylsia which will be always part of his work.
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