by Uncle V
He lost his shadow. He found the void. Elias Thorne is a junior sysadmin in Riverport, a city of rusted bridges and neon-soaked misery. His life is a routine of server errors, lukewarm coffee, and an empty bank account. Until the 11:30 PM Blue Line train. When the lights flicker in the tunnel, Elias’s reflection stops mimicking him. It smiles—a jagged, predatory grin—and whispers words that bleed. Suddenly, Elias isn’t just a cog in the corporate machine. He is a 'Little Anchor'—a human tether to an ancient, light-drinking void that has been drowning for three thousand years. As the shadows of Riverport begin to wake and feed, Elias must master a power that is slowly turning his body into black obsidian, or be consumed by the very darkness he now commands. What to expect:● Urban Fantasy & Cosmic Horror: A grounded, gritty modern world meeting incomprehensible eldritch threats.● Progression: Watch a mundane professional evolve into something beyond human.● High Stakes: No fillers. Every chapter is a step deeper into the dark. Volume 1 is COMPLETE. Updates are DAILY.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 27 Oct 2026, 04:43 UTC
Entry forecast updated 27 Oct 2026, 04:43 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
Collecting data. We've only observed this story once so far — funnel ratios need at least two snapshot days.
