by Jan Ong
Once, demons were an unassailable threat. To come face to face with one meant certain death. Once, the continent was divided, with constant wars for resources and power. Then, five Guardians rose from insignificance to return hope to the land. Milos was not one of these Guardians. In fact, he’d grown up on stories of their adventures. Now, the Guardians grow ever older and demon attacks are becoming more and more commonplace. When a demon brings ruin to Milos’s village, he swears that he will do what the Guardians could not. Theron was an old demon. One of the first. And he was tired of the endless fighting and killing. All he wanted was peace. What he got instead was a pair of shattered horns and an exile. When Theron stumbles upon the lone survivor of a demon attack, he decides to take the boy under his wing. With a powerful master and a (mostly) indomitable will, Milos will bring peace to the continent, or he will die trying. What to expect: -Weak to strong MC -OP mentor figure, but not the strongest -Progression High Fantasy -Swords, Spears, Bows, Magic, etc. but no guns or other modern weaponry -There will be POV shifts -While this story is not a dark fantasy, bad things will happen. They will not be described in overmuch detail, but they will be mentioned on occasion. -Updates M-W-F-Sunday at 14:15 GMT + 8
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:58 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
1%
Two or more lists
0%
Likely threshold order: Action → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Action (1%).
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
#11430 of 12,129 · 11380 below RS #50
By genre
beats 36% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 16% 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.
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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