by adamstephill
Elara Vance was the greatest alchemist the Citadel had ever expelled. Now, reduced to scrubbing cauldrons in her family's failing shop, she's desperate for a second chance. When a rogue experiment backfires, she doesn't just fail—she rips a hole into another world. Stranded in a brutal land where magic is cultivated like a martial art and monsters evolve under an alien sky, Elara's only assets are her forbidden alchemy and a tenacious will. She's no hero. But if this new world wants to grind her to dust, it had better learn that the most potent ingredient in any formula... is a woman with nothing left to lose. Official discord is here➡️ https://discord.gg/5WU5CxKuU
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
4%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Action → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (3%).
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
#11973 of 12,415 · 11923 below RS #50
By genre
beats 86% of similar stories
beats 2% of similar stories
beats 5% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 150+ chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
