
by SungJoon
Cover by: Henry R Under The Great System's protocol, the highest-ranking Awakened known as Kaisers, are forced to grant their classes to complete strangers and serve as their mentors. Humans from Earth are summoned to Astoria to participate in The Natural Selection—a deadly survival game set within the simulated city of Seoul. Gray Kim is one of those unlucky humans. Ripped from Earth without warning, he is granted the Mistveil class, a power meant to let him manipulate clouds. If Gray wants to survive, he’ll have to master this strange new class, outlast his competition, and navigate the politics of the Kaiser Guilds. But there’s one problem. The Kaiser who granted Gray the Mistveil class doesn’t intend to mentor him. He intends to kill him. Schedule: MWF - 4:44AM EST
#10
7/3/2026
Peak #14
26d
#9
6/26/2026
Peak #19
7d
#8
6/21/2026
Peak #37
5d
#7
6/20/2026
Peak #39
0d
#6
6/16/2026
Peak #15
3d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:08 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
34%
Two or more lists
5%
Likely threshold order: Mystery → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Mystery (30%).
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
#3598 of 12,235 · 3548 below RS #50
By genre
beats 90% of similar stories
beats 29% of similar stories
beats 80% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
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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