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by CaptainGuy
The Update can be found here: Reverse Engineered Magic https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/183246/reverse-engineered-magic-titletrait-collecting
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Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#5980 of 7,531 · 5930 below #50
By genre
beats 99% of similar stories
beats 59% of similar stories
beats 1% 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.
At this conversion, the Sci-fi Rising Stars bar (≈1 new followers/day) costs about 9 views/day — the story currently gets ~0.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 2–4 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
