by eightbits
Brian is an IT professional, a computer guy, who is ripped from his body on Earth and thrown into someone else's body on another world. It's a brutal world, intent on beating him down again and again and again. But the worst part of this new world is that it is governed by a system, a system with a lot of bugs. Some of these bugs make it even more brutal, and some are affecting Brian in particularly bad ways. Follow Brian as he struggles to survive and grow despite the system and the brutality of his new world. Can he use his skills and knowledge from his old world to gain access to the system and fix the bugs? If he ever wants to go home, he's going to have to try. He's going to have to become: The System Administrator This will be a very long story with fast paced action but a slow reveal of information, especially about the system and how the denizens of the world interact with it. Chapters post once per day, Monday - Friday.Patreon has exclusive content and is 4 weeks ahead!
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, 05:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:58 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 (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
#2801 of 12,150 · 2751 below RS #50
By genre
beats 64% of similar stories
beats 40% of similar stories
beats 84% 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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