
by Tmyriad5
Norman didn’t think Succubii were real, until one stole half his soul. Now he lives a life of pain, missing memories and losing his capacity to feel. He walks with a cane to support his atrophied leg, and struggles to use the bathroom with his paralyzed manhood. Given the tools to take his life back by those who gave their lives to save him, he suffered for three long years, learning enough magic to suppress the constant agony and fight those who took his life from him. By day he walks the city of Raleigh, working as a private eye. By night he hunts, searching for her and her kind. In his search he uncovers a demonic conspiracy, one that threatens to bring about the unspeakable. To stop them he is forced to work with a woman named Serena, a user of forbidden magic who ignites a fire within him that he thought had died three years before. In the war against demons, empathy is his weapon, one he must fight to hold on to. But the farther he plunges himself into the underworld, the more humanity he loses. What will it matter if he restores his soul, if he becomes a demon along the way? What to expect: Disabled Protagonist Unique Magic system Graphic Violence Involving Demons Forbidden Romance Edited for RR Standards
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, 09:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 09:08 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
9%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Horror → Romance → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Horror (6%).
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
#11460 of 12,195 · 11410 below RS #50
By genre
beats 85% of similar stories
beats 97% of similar stories
beats 48% 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 20–49 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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