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by Embercrown
For the past seven decades, five heroes known as the Celestial Knights have used their magical powers to protect the world from increasingly threatening monsters appearing seemingly out of nowhere, passing down their powers to a new squad every few years. It has only ever been those five, but one day, a sixth magical warrior arrives on the scene. Is she friend or foe? The sixth warrior is Destiny Drake, whose powers were granted to her by a doll she found in the trash and decided to fix up on a whim. That choice will echo through the rest of her life and change everything. Can she gain the Knights' trust and prove to them that she's on their side? What does it mean to be chosen by Destiny itself? Can she figure out how to get a hold of her new powers in time for the coming disaster? How is our heroine going to handle suddenly being in the same group as her celebrity crush? What to expect: ★ Slice of Life interspersed with action ★ A Mahou Shojuo world inspired by the classics such as Sailor Moon, slowly twisting toward modern interpretations on the genre like Madoka Magica ★ Wholesome lesbian romance. Unrequited love and other relationship types to be introduced later ★ Single PoV, switching to multiple in volume 2 ★ An expanding world Cover art by https://vgen.co/hivernillust
#25
9/27/2026
Peak #47
0d
#24
9/26/2026
Peak #50
0d
#23
9/25/2026
Peak #49
0d
#22
9/22/2026
Peak #50
0d
#21
9/18/2026
Peak #47
2d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:28 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
36%
Two or more lists
25%
Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Drama → Romance → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Contemporary + Drama (18%).
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
#9413 of 12,145 · 9363 below RS #50
By genre
beats 92% of similar stories
beats 23% of similar stories
beats 60% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
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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