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by Carcian
What is better: to enter the multiverse gifted with power, or to begin weak and claw your way to strength through blood, will, and relentless effort? When Earth is integrated into the Multiverse, humanity gains stats, skills, and magic—but only a select few are granted System Cores, becoming Core-bearers with a clear path to power. Cade Whitehollow, a burned-out, indebted postdoc who has just been fired, is not one of them. Even so, he refuses to let this second life collapse into the same dead end as the first. With no Core, no Class, and no head start, Cade is thrown into a lethal Tutorial designed for Core-bearers. While they level, cast spells, and surge ahead, Cade has to survive the long, brutal grind of becoming eligible to forge a Core of his own. Monsters evolve. Humans turn on each other. And buried somewhere in the chaos of the Tutorial is an ancient path to power—one even the System cannot control. This work is only posted on Royal Road and Patreon. If you are viewing it anywhere else, it has been stolen and is an illegal and unauthorized copy. ~~~ August & September release schedule is one chapter every Monday-Wednesday-Friday (3 days a week) at 08:03 AM EDT. Book 1 - Coreless is undergoing edits. Book 2 - Classless is currently being released. What to expect: -Weak to strong to OP male MC -Slow burn as the MC figures his way through the Tutorial -2000-3000 word chapters (sometimes more) -Eastern cultivation elements meets Western LitRPG/System Apocalypse -No Harem
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deep field · ~#6335 of 7,531 · 6285 below #50
By genre
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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.
At this conversion, the Sci-fi Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 1.1k views/day — the story currently gets ~7.8k.
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.
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