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by Aest Belequa
Magic has rules. Eola must break them. Eola loves magic, but she’s got a problem—her ‘unique’ magical attunement. Her soul is filled with unattuned Mana, useful for only the runes children learn. Cantrips won’t help her pass her first year of school, much less save her parents, but Eola refuses to believe she’s stuck casting them forever. She just needs a less…conventional…education. Eola’s study plan is clear. It’s also dangerous. The academy’s library holds tomes no living mage has read. Monsters stalk its aisles, and forgotten knowledge haunts its shelves. If a solution for her useless attunement exists, it’ll be archived there. To master magic, Eola must learn—and break—its accepted rules. That’s fine with her, though. It’s time to rewrite the rulebooks. What to Expect: - For fans of Mage Errant, the Old Kingdom series, Scholomance: A Deadly Education, Witch Hat Atelier, and Wistoria: Wand and Sword, among other stories. - A Weak to (slowly) Strong Bookworm. - A sketched-rune magic system. - A very normal cat.- Posting schedule: 2/week, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
#11
7/3/2026
Peak #16
6d
#10
6/21/2026
Peak #18
9d
#9
6/21/2026
Peak #4
12d
#8
6/21/2026
Peak #18
8d
#7
6/21/2026
Peak #16
11d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:49 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:49 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
2%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama (2%).
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
#1792 of 12,127 · 1742 below RS #50
By genre
beats 4% of similar stories
beats 3% of similar stories
beats 92% of similar stories
Readers arrive, few stick
Traffic is strong, but conversion trails comparable stories. The usual suspects are the blurb, the cover and the opening chapters — fixing the hook multiplies everything the existing traffic brings.
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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