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by Walker Miles
Wake up. Mine crystals. Don't die. That's the job, and Andy doesn't remember ever having a different one. The guards have guns. The other workers have agendas. The tunnels have monsters that shouldn't exist. On his first shift, surrounded by men who've already made their peace with the dark, he decides he won't be one of them. Then he finds the cavern. The crystals there are bigger than anything on the work floor, and they're whispering secrets the guards would kill to keep buried. It's a path to power. Maybe a path out. But he'll have to hide it from everyone, the sadists with the guns, the workers who call him friend, and the horrors that live deeper still, until he's strong enough to stop hiding. No one leaves the mine alive. Andy intends to be the first. What to Expect: [X] Morally grey protagonist / grounded hero [X] Found family / bonds forged under pressure [X] Monster hunting & combat [X] Character-driven over system-driven [X] MC who thinks before he swings [X] Cultivation with grit (blue-collar, not silk-robe) [X] Guns, because sometimes it's easier to shoot◈ M/W/F Chapters◈ 2000 - 2500 Words Chapter reddit
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6/22/2026
Peak #49
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6/16/2026
Peak #17
5d
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6/8/2026
Peak #48
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5/8/2026
Peak #10
27d
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5/7/2026
Peak #9
29d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#5764 of 7,531 · 5714 below #50
By genre
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beats 92% 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.
At this conversion, the Mystery Rising Stars bar (≈1 new followers/day) costs about 540 views/day — the story currently gets ~1.2k.
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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