
by King Booger
[If the world ended, who would you want to be?]Well... how about not dead? David is a painfully average teenager stuck in a painfully repetitive life. School, friends and family keep finding ways to kick him down and it sure looks like nothing will ever change... Then the whole world changed into a video game. NIRVANAAAH~~!! But instead of enjoying himself at the end o' the world, David needs to make sure his parents, his grandparents and one of his best friends are safe and sound... Oh, and he also needs to kill lots of Monsters, Raid Dungeons and make new enemies? Bummer... Will David do all of that? Or will he get incredibly sidetracked by the wackiness of it all?
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 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
3%
Two or more lists
0%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy (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
#7569 of 12,418 · 7519 below RS #50
By genre
beats 96% of similar stories
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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.
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