
by AuthorJS
**BOOK 2 COMPLETE** His family was his world. Now he’s in a new one. When a fatal accident rips Caleb Foster from his wife and kids, the forty-year-old gets a second chance in a realm of dungeons and monsters. A cosmic system offers him a choice of legendary powers, but Caleb refuses the flashy magic. He chooses the abilities to learn faster, remember perfectly, and master any physical skill. A father's instinct to protect doesn't die with his family. To survive and shield the new lives that depend on him, he must use a lifetime of quiet competence to navigate a dangerous frontier town, hunt deadly beasts, and outwit men who mistake his lack of flash for weakness. In a place where might makes right, Caleb is about to show that the most lethal weapon is a mind that misses nothing, and a will that never quits. *** What You Can Expect-Mature, Rational Protagonist (Single POV)-Slow-Burn, Emotional, Character-Driven, Slice of Life, Found Family-Logical LitRPG System and Earned Power (not too crunchy)-Gritty and Unforgiving World (Nobledark) What You Should Not Expect-No Harem / Romance / Smut-No Instant Overpowered MC-No Perfect MC (he'll make mistakes even though he's an adult) Release Schedule-3x week M/W/F @ 07:30 EST/EDT-Patreon has 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 30 Early Access chapters Please come hop into Discord and say hi! Artwork: poyjeee Typo: Ino Reddit Rank Verification Copyright © JON STONEKEY WRITES LLC 2025, All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. The Sovereign's Toll is only posted on RoyalRoad and my Patreon, any other publication is stolen and violates my copyright.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:19 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:19 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: Psychological → Action → Fantasy → Main → Adventure.
Leading bundle: Psychological + 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
#777 of 12,142 · 727 below RS #50
By genre
beats 70% of similar stories
beats 22% of similar stories
beats 99% 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.
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