by Xylix
When Eric Swallow received his first quest from the System, he certainly didn’t expect to end up in the netherworld. And he definitely didn’t plan to become a witch called Sylvia. Now, stuck as a girl, ‘she’ must adapt as a student of the Starlight Nether Witch Academy. But she won’t remain there for long, because the System’s creator has a scheme. A scheme that will inevitably break the post war peace that followed Ragnarok. And, as a bearer of the System, Sylvia will have no choice but to dive into Hell’s darkest corners and its highest society all while aiming to create a safe place for herself and the ‘gamers’ who follow.What to expect:- Adventures across multiple planes- Politics, economics, and kingdom building- Weak to strong and uneducated to astute- A soul cultivation system and a complex system of magic- Werewolves, vampires, goblins, dragons, angels, demons, and more...- A background, slow burn romance with a beautiful witch- A serious take on a gender bent MC- 99% MC focus Released - Arc I – Academy (13 chapters, 325 pages) - Arc II - Orasul Lunii (8 chapters, 204 pages) - Arc III - Tartarus (7 chapters, 178 pages) - Arc IV - Migration (11 chapters, 277 pages) - Arc V - Gamers (10 chapters, 301 pages) - Arc VI - Trade (11 chapters, 350 pages) - Arc VII - Rise (10 chapter, 300 pages)Current: Arc VIII - Underworld (12 chapters, ~380 pages)Prewritten: 90 chapters covering 8 fully complete arcs My Patreon - All chapters will be made public eventually.Discord for those who want to chat.Mango provided cover art by Ben Moran.Also, Book 1: Induction can be bought on Amazon
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:58 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
1%
Two or more lists
0%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Adventure → Action → Main → Fantasy.
Leading bundle: Romance + Adventure (0%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#1547 of 12,415 · 1497 below RS #50
By genre
beats 77% of similar stories
beats 69% of similar stories
beats 92% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
