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by ThePudding
Trust in yourself, they said... but which one? Ellen is a young adventurer who duplicates every time she dies. And she dies a lot. All she wanted was to follow in her legendary grandfather's footsteps and become the greatest adventurer who ever lived! Was that too much to ask? Now she has to dodge government tax audits, endure unrelenting System notification spam, and wrangle a dungeon core bent on making her life as miserable as possible! But hey, if she can just learn to work with herself, it'll be fine! Probably! (Updates Thu-Fri + Bonus) (Also posting on ScribbleHub as ThePudding) (Patreon gets 17 Advance Chapters!)
#4
3/31/2026
Peak #1
25d
#3
3/30/2026
Peak #1
26d
#2
3/30/2026
Peak #1
26d
#1
3/29/2026
Peak #1
39d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 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
0%
Two or more lists
0%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy (0%).
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
#606 of 12,418 · 556 below RS #50
By genre
beats 54% of similar stories
beats 17% of similar stories
beats 97% 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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