by S. Ainsworth
Callie Ballard’s plan was simple—study hard, stay focused, and graduate with full honors. What she didn’t plan for was waking up one morning to a screen prompting her to complete a quest. Now armed with skills, spells, and summons she never asked for, Callie must figure out her place in this new world order. The stakes couldn't be higher, and neither could the tension with the one person she can't quite figure out how to keep at arm's length. As her sense of self fractures, and the very fabric of humanity’s existence is at stake, Callie needs to be ready to do the impossible. The system chose her for a reason. She just has to survive long enough to find out why. Is she controlling the system...or is the system controlling her? Note: will update at least twice a week.Book Cover by: M.waqas @waqasella on Fiverr
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, 23:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 23:48 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
14%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance (12%).
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
#9720 of 12,436 · 9670 below RS #50
By genre
beats 79% of similar stories
beats 79% of similar stories
beats 38% 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.
