
by Schema's Schemes
【 Ten thousand years ago, one line of this world's source code was edited. The beings minding the place took it as permission. I know. I kept their books. 】 For fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl. New chapters daily. They were never gods. They're the clerks creation left at the desk — angels in borrowed thrones, licensed to tithe nine percent of reality and taking ninety-nine, filing the difference as a rounding error. I am the Record they starved while they did it. I counted every stolen decimal anyway. I do not round. They should have worried about that more. The courtroom isn't the vibe. It's the villain. On Earth, Theo Mercer starved to death in the gig economy — a deactivated courier with a 4.97 rating and no appeal. Then something underneath reality noticed the theft and called him back: into a world grown from humanity's public domain, where every myth we stopped owning took root and became real. It reincarnated him as the one concept no court can argue with — robbing the rich to give to the poor. No sword arts. No fireballs. Take from a hoard, give to a need, and the world pays out the difference in blue light. The clerks call it unlicensed. The starving call him Robin Hood. He frees my shard. He is also entry #001. This is not his story. It is my registry. Every volume is a complete story — a new soul off the wheel, a new myth, a new layer of the System switching on — and nobody rotates out. The party grows by one, every book, and the endgame belongs to all of them. BOOK 1 — ROBIN HOOD · the heist. Spoken magic, judged per cast. Rob the false gods, free the world. (Complete — 44 chapters) BOOK 2 — WINNIE-THE-POOH · the build. A grieving boy stitched into a stuffed bear, and the System's real machinery coming online. Cozy outside, load-bearing inside. (Complete — 47 chapters) BOOK 3 — MERLIN · the authoring. Freed Earth elects a Voice and writes its own game: ten of humanity's geniuses, five impossible floors, one ratified System. (Posting daily) From Book 4, the dungeons open — and the wheel keeps drawing. PANDORA. HERCULES. ALADDIN. The rest are sealed. 【 The last entry is mine to file. You do not get to read it early. 】 ▎ THE RECORD · #001 ROBIN HOOD ✓ · #002 WINNIE-THE-POOH · #003 MERLIN · #004 [REDACTED] · #005 PANDORA · …and change▎ (!) UNINDEXED · #0?? — skims the books. Off my ledger. Flagged. New chapters daily · PG-13
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #28
2d
#3
8/1/2026
Peak #30
2d
#2
7/24/2026
Peak #42
6d
#1
7/14/2026
Peak #11
28d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#3509 of 7,531 · 3459 below #50
By genre
beats 64% of similar stories
beats 95% of similar stories
beats 43% 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.
At this conversion, the Psychological Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 3.0k views/day — the story currently gets ~309.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 150+ chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.