@Raspberry Plum They don't know that. All they know is something caused the collars to fail.

@Constellation of Dark Phoenix Yet, the MC said that part of what he was counting on is that she was bad at using magic. Which means he was expecting her to use it.

And if she's an "experienced fighter" yet didn't expect a headbutt, she's an idiot. In battle, anything goes, including headbutts and crotch shots.

@B P (Ult1m4) Ooo, I left that one to cook early last year. I need to check it out again.

@B P (Ult1m4) I don't hate him. He's at least involved with his kids instead of dumping everything on his wife and the servants.

@Hykaon I'd also like an author who explored a solid polygamous relationship, rather than dumping a bunch of pretty, maybe competent girls on the MC and callling it good.

@B P (Ult1m4) It's on this site under its Japanese title. You can bookmark it for later.

@B P (Ult1m4) It's the "adopted out" thing I'm having an issue with. You adopt out kids without parents. The kids' father was and is very much alive. There's no reason whatsoever to adopt them anywhere.

@B P (Ult1m4) Often those territories are on the borders of the country, fronting other kingdom(s), the local demon forest, or both. I'm not sure if this one is or not.

@B P (Ult1m4) I also see it as the father of the family being a pathetic waste, no matter how good a fighter, magician, or politician is. If you can't bother to be involved in and control your own household, what kind of a piece of sh** are you?

(I may be biased from overhearing my parents arguing over my mother showing blatant and frequent favoritism to my sister.)

(Sis wasn't having it, btw. She knew that kind of thing was sh**, and stood up for me against mother's golden child/scapegoat nonsense.)

@B P (Ult1m4) Ryoma in By the Grace of the Gods has some nice offensive uses of Earth magic. The most imaginative was taking a repair and constructing skill called [Playing Clay] and using it to immobilize monsters.

@B P (Ult1m4) It's not just about having a restoration/healing magic -it's also about the magic's level and the user's strength. If the injury or illness is worse than what the power can handle, then the power can be overwhelmed. If the user is badly weakened, they can't use their power effectively. A weak or low-level user can be overwhelmed surprisingly quickly. There's also having the experience to know how to deal correctly with the problem, or even recognize it in time in the first place.

(There's an old D&D joke about who heals the healer.)

Over in the ElfQuest comics (most issues readable on their site), in the Shards war arc there's two healers. (Besides Winnowill, but she's the enemy and a bi***.) 

Leetah is much, much stronger than Mender, even though he was literally named for inheriting his healer grandfather's power. She also more experienced, being around 600 years old when he was born. When a human ally's hand is injured saving a member of the war party, Mender can only keep her from bleeding out or suffering permanent tendon damage; several days later, Leetah (who'd been off with the half of the tribe finding a safe place to live after the war) heals it fully in just a few minutes. 

(Why the weaker healer went with the war party is a long and spoiler-filled story.)

@B P (Ult1m4) Oops. That was later when he's talking about introducing baths.

@B P (Ult1m4) Tree roots fu** with the pavement over time, and the foundation of houses if they're too close. 

They spent the last year(!) repairing the big road near my apartment and installing/repairing sidewalks. One I'm particularly glad about because the tree roots had raised a square of sidewalk pavement about an inch. I have to walk that part to get to the bus stop. I tripped over it at least twice due to poor lighting, being half-asleep, or both. 

(Due to how the buses run that fugbuck early in the morning and where I work, a 9 am open requires getting on the bus at 6:30-ish. I medically can't drive and Uber is expensive, so I only use it when I have to.)

@B P (Ult1m4) These probably have a better idea since the "clean" spell is widespread. Accessibility to resources is important to maintain certain factors.

@B P (Ult1m4) By the Grace of the Gods goes into more detail on the problem of too much mana. Life of a Magic Academy Mage also touches on it. It's a problem of control.

It's like filling a cup. It's easy from a kitchen faucet. A garden hose at full blast is harder. Don't even try with a fire hose.

Ryoma from Grace seems to have a built-in control, and also has had a LOT of practice, so his excessive mana isn't a real problem. But then, his body was explicitly built by the gods when he transferred over.

From Academy, Leehan's country doesn't even allow kids to try to practice magic until they're legal adults, even Leehan's mighty mages household, and it shows in how hard it is for him to handle his magic at times. It'd probably be worse if he hadn't learned the sword, including aura training. In his Basic Beginning Magic class, the teacher explicitly bans him from practicing with fire due to his difficulty with control. She also compared his magic to the ocean in quantity, once calling it endless like the sea. 

The problem comes when he has to use a lot of finely-controlled magic back-to-back in an emergency. 

@B P (Ult1m4) Most of them probably didn't start out with that much, but built up to it and learned along the way. The ones born with it probably hurt themselves and maybe others.

@YEETUS21 More interesting and some of the tactics make more sense.

@Fk Nascimento That reminds me! Some of the popular manga are getting animes on streaming.

https://screenrant.com/every-isekai-anime-streaming-2026/

The ones I recognize from here are:

The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System
Heroine? Saint? No, I'm an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)!
The World's Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker (Which hasn't been updated here in forever)
Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship!

@Fk Nascimento To be precise, they used a sling -a pouch on straps or strings that works off centrifugal force- rather than a slingshot -a minicatapult that works off the elasticity of its materials. The difference is important -the first is far more devastating when you're dealing with Earth materials and physics.

@Сергей Давыдов Yup. The novel has her refer to him as her g**.