by Melanocrista Ukii
He arrives late, dragging a black blade. The campus is empty. There’s a body under a tree. Welcome to the most “livable” polar city on earth. Time to get logged on the Scratchlist. — Book 1, Chapter 1-14: walking. Picks up speed after that, full speed by Chapter 23. If that sounds like your kind of weird, you’ll probably enjoy this.
#10
7/20/2026
Peak #32
16d
#9
7/20/2026
Peak #50
0d
#8
7/19/2026
Peak #47
0d
#7
7/17/2026
Peak #49
1d
#6
7/17/2026
Peak #49
0d
Rank updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#5719 of 6,880 · 5669 below #50
By genre
beats 35% of similar stories
beats 37% of similar stories
beats 40% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
At this conversion, the Contemporary Rising Stars bar (≈0 new followers/day) costs about 622 views/day — the story currently gets ~97.
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.
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