
by W. Jefferson Smith
Dalex may have died, and his body may have been abducted by aliens, but that's not going to stop him from living his best isekai life. Resurrected and transported halfway across the galaxy to do the aliens' grunt work, Dalex finds himself in command of a starship with enough firepower to destroy a solar system. He’s accompanied by a snarky android assistant to help him learn what all the buttons do and has a mission to stop the aliens' competitors from stealing all the valuable local minerals. As a fantasy nerd, science fiction isn’t his genre. Lucky for him, the habitable planets nearby are covered in elves, beastmen, orcs, and dragons. Seven unique worlds overflow with magical power just waiting to fulfill his every wish. Unlucky for him, the dragons are fascist authoritarians bent on squeezing all the magic out of the elves and then exterminating them. And they use the native humans as their overseers. It totally ruins Dalex’s image of the noble dragon and is embarrassing to him as a fellow human. But, with the proper application of a post-singularity species’ most powerful weapons, all given new fantasy-appropriate names, Dalex can probably give that dark cloud a silver lining. It’s open season on all tyrannical wyrms. New chapters posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Cover art by Heitor Santos/ REDHOTIEH
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Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
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deep field · ~#970 of 7,531 · 920 below #50
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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.
At this conversion, the Sci-fi Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 91 views/day — the story currently gets ~0.
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 lifetime.
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