
by BRYAN16
Thubelihle was a young South African hacker, who unfortunately hacked and tried to blackmail the wrong person. He ends up getting himself and his parents killed. Only, he wakes up in another world, in the body of a pale skinned, red haired teenage boy, named...Herbert! What kind of name is that? And why is he wearing frilly clothes? Has he been...isekaied? This doesn't happen to people like him! And now he must try to navigate a world of nobles and peasants and magic. And no modern technology. Wanting to make up for being a less than stellar son and brother in his previous life, he makes an effort to be a better person in his second life. No more lazing about, and no more taking for granted the people in his life who care about him. But what does this second life have in store for him?
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, 06:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:28 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 → 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
#10718 of 12,157 · 10668 below RS #50
By genre
beats 82% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 14% 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 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.