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by DragonKnov
His spiritual root was torn from his chest. Betrayed by his seniors.Betrayed by his juniors.Betrayed by the master he trusted most. Cast into the endless Abyss alongside the forgotten and the damned.He was nameless. Broken. Neither genius nor chosen one—merely another insignificant casualty among millions. And so… his soul died. But at the very bottom of the Abyss, as the blood pooled on the cold stone... another soul descended.A soul that didn't care about betrayal, but only about survival. [Spiritual Root: NONE][Heavenly Alignment: NULL][Daoless Vessel Confirmed. System Initializing…] Daily update at 7:00 PM EST.
#7
8/11/2026
Peak #50
0d
#6
8/11/2026
Peak #43
1d
#5
8/11/2026
Peak #44
1d
#4
7/20/2026
Peak #27
21d
#3
7/19/2026
Peak #22
23d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 06:18 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#2303 of 7,531 · 2253 below #50
By genre
beats 86% of similar stories
beats 32% of similar stories
beats 95% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
At this conversion, the Romance Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 378 views/day — the story currently gets ~1.9k.
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.
