by Esperion21
Kian Pineda has died a lot. In Oakhaven, the dungeon is simple: Beat the boss.Become the boss.Lose the floor.Reset.Climb again. Every victory grants power, territory, and control over a piece of the mountain. Every defeat sends Kian back to the beginning with nothing but pain, memory, and instincts his body refuses to forget. Most climbers who win a floor claim it. Kian never does. He keeps moving. Because in the dungeon, staying still means becoming part of the thing that keeps killing you. But the deeper Kian climbs, the less the dungeon treats him like another challenger. Old gear responds when it shouldn’t.His body remembers movements he never learned.And something beneath the mountain is starting to notice. Kian has to decide how much of himself he’s willing to lose to keep climbing……and how much was already lost before he ever began.
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, 02:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:58 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
3%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Psychological → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Psychological (2%).
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
#11399 of 12,415 · 11349 below RS #50
By genre
beats 37% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 14% 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.
