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by Aleth08
The guild ruled Thorin ineligible. The crystal glowed. The answer was still no. To survive, Thorin needs to become a Magus. An illegal branding is the only path left outside the guild system. His affinities are weak and restricted, forcing him to rely on planning, restraint, and hard decisions rather than overwhelming strength. Every fight is a calculation. Every mistake costs time he doesn’t have. Backed by his cousins Clay and Quin, he learns how to use broken power efficiently and dictate the outcome of his fights. Thorin doesn’t want to just survive. He wants control.He intends to reclaim what his name once stood for, whatever it takes. Inspired by novels I like: Warlock of the Magus World | Reverend Insanity | A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality etc. Release Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday [After the initial run] What to expect: [+] Weak to Strong [+] Necromancer MC [Other affinities as well] [+] Anti-Hero MC [Morally Grey] [+] LitRPG-Cultivation Blend [+] Class Based Power System [+] Magical Beasts [+] Romance [Not Harem] [+] Third-Person Limited Narration
#8
3/22/2026
Peak #50
0d
#7
2/16/2026
Peak #50
0d
#6
1/25/2026
Peak #3
55d
#5
1/24/2026
Peak #9
23d
#4
1/24/2026
Peak #9
22d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:38 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
4%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance (2%).
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
#3789 of 12,147 · 3739 below RS #50
By genre
beats 77% of similar stories
beats 35% of similar stories
beats 89% 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 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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