
by Zom_au
Zane Rider was just an average Aussie bloke—until his quiet country property became ground zero for something impossible. A mysterious system overlays reality, monsters invade his land, and a black cube in the bush offers cryptic challenges and dangerous rewards. With his tough-as-nails best mate Tarni, his grown Kids, and his terminally ill wife Bell, they form an unlikely party in a game no one understands. As goblins, dungeons, and RPG mechanics bleed into real life, the team fights to protect their home, gather resources, and uncover what the system really wants. But time is running out—both in the game and for the world beyond their farm. Monsters are getting stronger. The cube is calling. And every level comes with new surprises… some of them fatal. A fast-paced, darkly funny LitRPG adventure set in rural Australia—where survival depends on machetes, mateship, and maybe a spear gun or two. Book One Now Complete!
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 5 Oct 2026, 02:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 5 Oct 2026, 02:28 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
3%
Two or more lists
0%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy (3%).
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
#10023 of 12,356 · 9973 below RS #50
By genre
beats 91% of similar stories
beats 99% of similar stories
beats 15% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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.