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by ColeGarret
Marek didn't pick the Parasite class. Nobody picks Parasite — it's the class everyone in the unranked Wards prays they don't get, because it can't level from killing, can't quest, can't fight. The System looked into his soul and decided there was nothing in it worth ranking at all. Then he found a dying god in an alley, and his hand moved on its own. Somewhere above the Wards, an entire pantheon is dying — war between gods, corrupted divine cores, a heaven running out of time. Every god that dies leaves behind Essence Shards: raw fragments of stolen divinity the System never expected anyone to take. Only a Parasite can take them. Marek can't grind. He can't quest. He can only steal — one stolen god at a time, building a patchwork of borrowed divinity no class was ever designed to hold. And somewhere in the machinery that runs the world, something built to enforce the old order just noticed that a class logged as worthless broke its first rule. He never wanted to be a god. He just wanted the System to admit he existed. What to expect: Daily updates, 2,000+ words a chapter A solo lead — no harem, no romance, no found-family party A "broken build" power system where the cost is as real as the payoff Stat windows used sparingly, only when they actually matter Dark themes (exploitation, death) handled through plot and consequence, not gratuitous detail
No streak history
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#3279 of 14,014 · 3229 below #50
By genre
beats 48% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 78% 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.
At this conversion, the Drama Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 1.4k views/day — the story currently gets ~97.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.