
by smilemorefreely
My name is Andrew, and I am seventeen years old. My life had been nothing but miserable. Trapped within the pale walls of a hospital, I had spent every single day of my existence struggling and fighting and losing battle after battle against diseases that had no mercy toward me. I had not amounted to much in life, nor had I ever truly tasted any of life's goodness. But all of that changes on one fateful day. I die, and I find myself standing before gods. They look upon me with pity. They smile at my bravery. They praise the courage I had shown at the last moment, and they offer me their blessings. They reward me with powers beyond reckoning and reincarnate me into a world of magic and swords, a world where I am tasked by the god of systems to help the world in the future against some distant threat. But before any of that, I am going to enjoy every single gift they have given me and live the life I was never privileged enough to have. I am going to learn magic. I am going to make friends, real friends, and laugh with them and play with them. And yes, I am going to find whatever threat the world is doomed to face and will deal with it with all my powers. Until then, I am going to train and become even stronger and let my body adjust to the powers and blessings I have received. Follow my story and watch as I live the very best of this second chance at life. I will not allow anyone, not any enemy, not any misfortune, not any power, to take it away from me. What to expect: - An overpowered protagonist - Academy Life - Magic and swords - Elves, Beastkins, Dwarfs
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #10
1d
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #18
1d
#4
7/30/2026
Peak #14
12d
#3
7/30/2026
Peak #20
12d
#2
7/27/2026
Peak #46
0d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#173 of 7,531 · 123 below #50
By genre
beats 98% of similar stories
beats 14% of similar stories
beats 96% 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 Action Rising Stars bar (≈8 new followers/day) costs about 294 views/day — the story currently gets ~129.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 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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