by rrkwrites
At eighteen, Ethan Graves awakens the weakest possible ability: [Auctioneer's Eye] While others gain powerful combat skills, elemental magic, or legendary classes, Kieran can only see the market value of abilities. A useless power. Or so everyone thinks. One day he discovers a hidden feature. When someone dies, abandons a skill, or loses ownership, that skill enters a cosmic auction house accessible only to him. Fire Magic. Sword Mastery. Dragon Bloodline. Ancient Alchemy. Even legendary classes. Everything can be bought if he has enough Auction Points. Instead of fighting monsters directly, Kieran becomes a trader, investor, and manipulator of the world's most valuable commodity: Power itself. While nations wage wars for territory, Kieran secretly controls the market that decides who becomes strong and who becomes weak. But the deeper he climbs, the more terrifying the truth becomes. The Auction System isn't a gift. It's a marketplace created by gods. And humanity itself is the product being sold.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 5 Oct 2026, 15:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 5 Oct 2026, 15:28 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
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Mystery → Adventure → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Mystery (1%).
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
#2989 of 3,355 · 2939 below RS #50
By genre
beats 41% of similar stories
beats 48% of similar stories
beats 9% 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.
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.
