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God of Zero Cost

God of Zero Cost

by penguindaddytales

ActionAdventureDystopiaLitRPGLocal Protagonist
Shadow rank ~#4812 in Adventure↓20

Why pay for steel when dirt is free? In the high-tech slums of 2042 Chinatown, Singapore, twenty-one-year-old Ethan Tan is one automated bill away from homelessness. Desperate to fund his grandmother’s failing medical pod, he risks his last dollar on Bereshit Online—a hyper-realistic Bronze Age VRMMORPG where in-game Silver Shekels convert directly to real-world cash. Follow a fiercely pragmatic, stingy gold-farmer as he hacks ancient linguistic codes, exploits historical arbitrage, and turns the dirt beneath his heels into a real-world financial empire.

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Changes shown for: last 90d
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Current Rank
N/A
Peak Rank
N/A
Followers
17
+16
Story Timeline

Started

3mo ago

10

1mo ago

OverviewViews and follower statisticsEngagementProseChapters
Ranking History
Track position changes over time
24h7d30d
Favorites
5
+4
FVR
0.24%
Rating
4.08
Ratings
5
+5
Reviews
N/A
0
Comments
N/A
0
RS Days
0
90d
All
No data available for this time range
Rating Breakdown
Overall4.08
StyleN/A
StoryN/A
GrammarN/A
CharacterN/A
Streak History

No streak history

Shared RS Climb

One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.

Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:08 UTC

Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:08 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

2%

Two or more lists

0%

Likely threshold order: Action → Adventure → Main.

Leading bundle: Action (2%).

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

~#813045

#8130 of 12,150 · 8080 below RS #50

Separate entry model vs observed 7d bar-63/wk
Separate forecast P(enter ≤14d)0%
Shadow rankObserved RR rank

By genre

Reader Funnel
How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 50–149 chapters
Views
7.0k
2.4 follows / 1k viewslast 30d

beats 69% of similar stories

Followers
17
–

not enough data yet

Favorites
5
Traffic (last 30d)110 views/day

beats 45% of similar stories

Conversion trend
Steadyrecent 2.4/1k vs lifetime 2.4/1k

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.