
by J.J. Lorden
I AM IN THE PROCESS OF COPY EDITING EVOLUTION GAMES FOR ARC RELEASE AND THEN PUBLICATION. THE FULL STORY HAS BEEN POSTED. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN JOINING THE COPY EDITING TEAM, PLEASE SEND ME A DM. VOLUME 3 OF THE ASCENDANT EARTH CHRONICLES TENTATIVELY TITLED "THE IMAGINEER'S SENTANCE" IS ALSO IN PROGRESS AT 140K WORDS CURRENTLY, AND I MAY BEGIN POSTING CHAPTERS OF THAT STORY HERE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR. BE WELL ALL, THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT, JJ Austin Texier, son to the genius tech mogul Bendik Texier, has become Erramir Darkfyre, and the virtual world Kuora is now his home. He has stats, a personal interface, his two closest friends at his side, and an ancient dungeon beckons. Kuora, though, is more than a game, and Erramir's discovery of a hidden attribute tree is just the beginning. Kuora is powered by quantum and nano technologies secretly developed by Bendik decades ahead of their time and advanced beyond the safeguards of law and culture. If they get out, the end of human liberty would be only the beginning. Bendik must push his secret tech edge even further into the undetectable non-linear realm. It, he knows, is how we evolve, and he's betting everything on a global technological marvel to trigger the needed mass human evolution. At its heart lies Kuora, and its secret must be sought to gain a power that can only be found.This is the fuel for the engine of human evolution. Covert war escalates on Earth, and a void sickness stirs in Kuora. There is no turning back. The games are on. What to Expect:☑ Humor, irreverence, friendship.☑ RPG progression with hidden attribute powers earned from expanded self-awareness.☑ Researched, plausible near-future technology.☑ Rational characters, from noble to devious. ☑ Gritty fights and action. Inspirations:Thanks to the work of David Bohm, Dr. David Hawkins, and current quantum theory regarding the collapse of separation between scientific and spiritual reality.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:38 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
26%
Two or more lists
19%
Likely threshold order: Psychological → Sci-fi → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Psychological + Sci-fi (17%).
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
#5034 of 12,147 · 4984 below RS #50
By genre
beats 99% of similar stories
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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.
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