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by SneakyFrog
Book 1 is complete! ---------------------------- Every month the long night comes, driving monsters into a frenzy. Villagers like 13-year-old David fight to survive until dawn, while those born luckier live in fortified cities, sheltered from the terrors of the world. Witnessing deaths of fellow villagers breaks the limiter on David’s mind, setting free the memories of his past life as an engineer. Aided by the scientific method and a power to harvest memories of the freshly dead, he wrangles the world’s volatile magic to carve out a better life for his family. With the arrival of an intelligent monster to the neighboring forest, the village faces imminent doom while the vile knights meant to keep them safe want to lay hands on his alchemist mother instead. But David is an observer no more and what he lacks in brawn, he will make up for with a sharp mind and audacity. Be they a nightmare taking form or an heir to the great noble houses, none can threaten his family and live. What to expect from this story: * Weak-to-strong, competent lead * Generalist main character using a unique memory-based power, magic and later on, modern knowledge and constructs. * In-depth magic system with epic battles * 3 chapters a week This is the only place where this story is available. If you see a copy of this book, cover, or anything connected to it posted to another website, it has been stolen. This book is not currently being sold on Kindle nor on Google play---if you see it there, it has been scraped and stolen.
#9
6/8/2026
Peak #50
0d
#8
5/3/2026
Peak #49
1d
#7
4/4/2026
Peak #50
0d
#6
3/11/2026
Peak #24
21d
#5
3/11/2026
Peak #23
23d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 07:49 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 07:49 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
13%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Action → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama (10%).
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
#9954 of 12,172 · 9904 below RS #50
By genre
beats 71% of similar stories
beats 33% of similar stories
beats 75% 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.