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by Creating Fiction for Fun
To be Launched! A third life. If I risk it all. The greatest arcanecraft of magic and myself... The year is 2048. Astronauts and a solitary engine operator are living together on Mercury in seemingly perfect harmony. Until one day the "celestial jump" he launches takes them all. This is the age of the 'Solar Heat Death'. People are now looking up at the white aurora and watching the solar flares. But he sees what's really behind the solar flares from Mercury. The military is lying about the supernova to cover the nukes detonating on Earth. And this is the last time Arie, the same base operator, sends the other astronauts up out into space to save them all. He then walks back alone into the module and puts on his VR headset. Loads the first MMO he ever played. Because new nuclear warheads are now closing on Mercury as well. Near death experiences are the closest thing to a glimpse of the afterlife. And so he lowers that VR headset over his eyes. Breathe quick, visor locks; Sink slow, memories choke; Click fingers, currents evade; Surf a dragon, scales stripped; Whip a blade, eclipse awakes... ''What do we say to the titans that grant us grievous wounds and cast us down—Sic itur ad astra!'' Does a spacewalker sealed numb in a suffocating suit ever dream of a lost medieval fantasy of candlelit faiths and singing sorceries?
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:19 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:19 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
24%
Two or more lists
16%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama + Action (8%).
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
#9640 of 12,142 · 9590 below RS #50
By genre
beats 99% of similar stories
beats 74% of similar stories
beats 1% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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 lifetime.
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