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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
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 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: Romance → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance + Action (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
#10099 of 12,418 · 10049 below RS #50
By genre
beats 57% of similar stories
beats 51% of similar stories
beats 85% 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.
