
by Lord Turtle the first
In the fractured sprawl of Virelia—a city of rusted steel, synthetic dreams, and brutal survival—Ray was just another forgotten face. A streetwise courier scraping by, burdened with debts and a sick mother, he did whatever it took to survive in a world ruled by crime syndicates and ruthless mega-corporations. Then came the ambush.Then came death.And then—something else. A mysterious injector of nanites rebuilt him from the inside out, transforming him into a living weapon. Now, he can consume machines and minds alike, wearing the faces of the dead, wielding their skills as his own, and reshaping his body into a formidable arsenal. What began with interfacing a toothbrush quickly escalated into something far more terrifying. Ray has become Virelia’s apex predator. Hunted by the corporations that engineered his power and the gangs that want to rip it from him, Ray fights to protect the few people he still cares about. But each consumed memory pulls him further from who he once was, blurring the line between protector and monster, man and machine. To save others, he became the thing they fear.But what happens when the man is gone, and only the weapon remains? A cyberpunk tragedy of survival, transformation, and the cost of holding on to humanity in a city that eats its children.
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, 03:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:28 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
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Tragedy → Sci-fi → Psychological → Drama → Main.
Leading bundle: Tragedy (1%).
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
#5685 of 12,409 · 5635 below RS #50
By genre
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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.
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