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Blood

Blood

by ZacHansen

ActionAdventureFantasyLitRPGProgressionPost ApocalypticMale LeadAction

THE APOCALYPSE IS COMING: PREPARE YOURSELVES. Hour 0: Mike is ready. High-calorie rations, tactical gear, and a solid plan. Hour 1: Mike is mugged. A baseball bat to the skull. A looted pack. Left for dead. Hour 2: The Integration begins. No gear. No tutorial. Hour 3: Mike wakes in the Crucible with a broken leg and a broken skill (that has been automatically(?) selected by the System). * * * The math of the apocalypse is simple: Kill. Harvest. Stack. Survivors call it the Murderhobo Meta. Kill other players, steal their skills, stack quantity until you're unstoppable. Vance and his Reapers have already harvested dozens. In their world, the man with the most skills wins. Mike Harrison has ten slots. Total. Forever. To predators like Vance, he's a walking skill stone—trash to be looted and forgotten. But Mike spent his old life optimizing complex systems, and he sees what the murderhobos missed: Common skills aren't the end. They're the ingredients. By grinding trash-tier abilities to their limits, Mike can merge them into something new. Pain suppression plus life steal doesn't give him two weak buffs. It gives him Bloodborne—a rare-tier skill that turns every wound into power and every kill into healing. But after Vance crushes him in forty seconds flat, Mike learns the hard way: solo optimization isn't enough. Now he's gathering the rejects—survivors with "useless" skills the meta dismissed.  The Reapers think they own the new world because they have the most skills. Mike is going to show them what happens when quality compounds. BLOOD. STEEL. FIRE. Release Schedule: A chapter every other weekday : 17:00 CET (Mon, Wed, Fri) What to expect: - Weak to strongest (bear with me, it will be a few chapters - to make the payoff even sweeter) - Dungeon crawling - Weird, absurd and story driving skills - MC has a different power/skill system than others - System apocalypse - LitRPG, some elements of cultivation - Found Family

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Rating
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Rating Breakdown
Overall4.18
Style4.79
Story4.71
Grammar4.86
Character4.71
Prose Quality
Reading Ease68.0
Dialogue Ratio1.4%
Avg Chapter Length1.1k words
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How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 20–49 chapters
Views
10k
10.0 follows / 1k viewslifetime

beats 89% of similar stories

Followers
101
0.19 favs / follower

beats 24% of similar stories

Favorites
19
Traffic (last 15d)9 views/day

beats 3% 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.

Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.