
by MichaelTet
He doesn’t know the rules, but the universe thinks he wrote them. Most teenagers have hobbies. This one decided to invent a dark alter-ego called the Apostle of Destruction. It was supposed to be a joke. A bit of fun. A way to deal with the fact that he has zero friends.The joke stopped being funny when the pink haired girl (with no fashion sense) started calling him "My Lord" and erasing cities in his name. Now, the most powerful beings in existence are terrified of him. They analyze his every move, thinking his clumsiness is "transcendental footwork" and his stuttering is "ancient forbidden chants."
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #22
2d
#9
7/3/2026
Peak #10
38d
#8
6/16/2026
Peak #5
17d
#7
6/2/2026
Peak #49
0d
#6
6/1/2026
Peak #49
0d
Rank updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#5541 of 6,880 · 5491 below #50
By genre
beats 99% of similar stories
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beats 17% 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.
At this conversion, the Comedy Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 126 views/day — the story currently gets ~48.
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.