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OF MUD AND EMBERS

OF MUD AND EMBERS

by Dark lord1234

FantasyPsychologicalShort StoryThriller

​"Offer me the warmth in your chest, and I will give you the absolute strength to transcend them all."​In a trench ripped straight from a dark age, bathed in the grim light of an eclipse, a desperate warrior makes a fatal bargain. To survive an insurmountable demonic army, he trades his humanity for the unfeeling, invincible power of Glacial Iron.​He becomes a force of mechanical inevitability—incapable of fear, incapable of anger, and utterly devoid of empathy. To him, the living are meaningless, and a corpse is nothing more than a mud stain on the ground.​But the mind cannot sustain a lie forever.​As his reality begins to warp, shatter, and glitch around him, the warrior is dragged into a fracturing, psychological hellscape of his own making. Haunted by the phantoms of his past, he must face his own subconscious guilt before the void completely devours his mind.​A psychological dark fantasy subversion exploring trauma, guilt, and the crushing weight of being human.

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Rank updated 23 Oct 2026, 03:18 UTC

Entry forecast updated 23 Oct 2026, 03:18 UTC

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Reader Funnel
How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 2–4 chapters
Views
156
6.4 follows / 1k viewslifetime

beats 66% of similar stories

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needs about a week of observations

Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 2–4 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.