
by TheFlamingSea
Ten years after Earth was integrated into the System, Ivan Marcellion is still nobody important. While others became warriors, mages, nobles, and Champions, Ivan ended up as an [Arcane Scribe] stuck in a basement, copying cheap spell scrolls by hand for people who barely remember his name. His Class is slow, his future is worse, and the world has made it clear that production-class workers are meant to stay quiet and replaceable if they want to remain useful. Everything changes when the ruler of Sky Reach forces him to copy a corrupted Mythic Scroll that has already killed or broken every scribe before him. Ivan survives by doing the one thing he was never supposed to do... He [Comprehends] it. The scroll is not merely magic. It is System code. That discovery costs Ivan his Class, his Levels, and the miserable life he spent ten years building. In return, he awakens [Inscriber of Principles], a Unique Class capable of reading the architecture behind spells and rewriting enchantments others consider absolute. Exiled and hunted by powers far beyond his Level, the insignificant scribe must turn a decade of thankless rune-spell copying into something no warrior, Champion, or God knows how to control.
#6
8/26/2026
Peak #50
0d
#5
8/11/2026
Peak #9
14d
#4
7/7/2026
Peak #9
29d
#3
7/6/2026
Peak #7
31d
#2
7/3/2026
Peak #1
38d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 09:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 09:08 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
3%
Two or more lists
0%
Likely threshold order: Mystery → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Mystery (3%).
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
#3564 of 12,195 · 3514 below RS #50
By genre
beats 64% of similar stories
beats 23% of similar stories
beats 96% 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 20–49 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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