by DBecker
A broken father is summoned to save a dying world. He wants nothing to do with it. Kai Drake got out of prison in December. In two weeks, his kids will see him for the first time in seven years. A no-show means he loses his last chance to be a dad. Plans get derailed when he’s transported to another realm and told to kill a Demon King. No cheat powers. No fluffy bunny ‘level ups’. Just PTSD, stubborn rage, and a Glock. He’s not here to save the magical world of Tenka. There’s only one goal: get home by Christmas. What to Expect: Isekai, highly reluctant anti-hero, grimdark, violence, brutality, profanity, action, PTSD, morally gray, modern knowledge, multiple POV, trope subversion, high stakes, and tight deadline. What NOT to expect (approaches but deliberately avoids): Standard OP Iseksi Hero, Harem Romance, wish fulfilment, power progression fantasy, clean heroic narrative. It comes close to some spice due to roles and scheming but undercuts it with Drake’s trauma and priorities. Our boy does NOT want to play. A raw, mature, trope-subverting take on the genre. Status Book One: Complete Book Two: Complete Book Three: M, W, F release. 1:31 PM (Eastern).
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, 02:19 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:19 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
7%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Psychological → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Psychological (6%).
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
#10719 of 12,428 · 10669 below RS #50
By genre
beats 89% of similar stories
beats 85% of similar stories
beats 37% 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.
