by SpencerHedrick
The day the world ended was the day Ethan got a power and a weapon. The dumbest pair imaginable: Soil Sense and a garden hoe. Ninety-nine percent of humanity is gone, a glitching alien AI rewrites the rules, and monsters prowl unchecked. But Ethan can grow. Killing monsters grants short-lived boosts in power, but farming gives him deep-rooted and long-lasting experience with the potential to make him truly mighty. A broken past and a wounded world haunt him as Ethan struggles to reckon with the new reality. Forming an unlikely team composed of a crotchety old farmer, a loyal dog, and a robot spider, he takes on the adventure of a lifetime: survival. Plant. Protect. Grow. If he can grow something strong enough to bind the ruined land, the harvest might just save the world. Cover art by Duy Phan
#12
6/8/2026
Peak #48
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#11
5/6/2026
Peak #49
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#10
5/5/2026
Peak #50
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#9
5/5/2026
Peak #48
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#8
5/2/2026
Peak #50
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:28 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
39%
Two or more lists
30%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Drama → Action → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi + Drama (26%).
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
#8594 of 12,157 · 8544 below RS #50
By genre
beats 87% of similar stories
beats 33% of similar stories
beats 77% 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.
