by CJ Holmes
Another death, another world, another chance to live a peaceful life. All he wants to do is practice his magic and go fishing. A peaceful, pleasant existence nobody should complain about. As if! His family abandoned him; His new body is cursed; The gods meddle with his life; The local mayor shoves responsibilities at him; A weird kid keeps popping up and challenging him to duels; People keep asking him if he wants to be a dark lord. Who has time for all of that when there are books to read and a lunker of a trout hiding away in the river? Join an isekai hero in his not-quiet-enough life. Writeathon Winner, Spring 2025 Vol 1, A Cursed Child, is available in ebook and paperback. Vol 2, The Legate of Mourne, is available in ebook and paperback. Updates on Wednesday and Friday.
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, 05:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:38 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
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Two or more lists
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Likely threshold order: Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Action (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
#1678 of 12,147 · 1628 below RS #50
By genre
beats 66% of similar stories
beats 49% of similar stories
beats 98% 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 150+ chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
