
by StellarLight
The city, hell the world, is falling apart from a lack of care and resources. But hey, at least I have a job. Or not. Turns out that even in this day and age, companies would rather automate than hire more people. At least they gave me a decent chunk of change. Now if only I could find another job. Yeah, right, like that is going to happen. Not in this economy. Not in this city. Not with my high school degree. No. I needed to do something else. Maybe I could play the new game I keep hearing about. The one that rich people are pouring money into. All so that they can get an item, influence, help, guides, anything to get an edge over their friends. While I have never been the best at various games, I have found my little niches in each game. All I would need to do here was get in and find a spot before someone else did. Then I could try and take advantage of the rich assholes while I could. I mean, what could go wrong?Authors Note: Due to edits, rewrites, and complete overhauling of the story over the past two years, I thought it was high time I reuploaded the story. After posing the question to the current readers, they agreed so here we are. Until we catch up to where the original is, I will be posting at least one chapter a day. I do hope that you enjoy the story.
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, 07:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 07:58 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
39%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Horror → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Horror (37%).
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
#8145 of 12,174 · 8095 below RS #50
By genre
beats 28% of similar stories
beats 74% of similar stories
beats 72% 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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