by PowerfulPatzer
Goble is a normal boy. Well, maybe not; he has some minor, ok, major differences. But that doesn't matter; what matters is his Mom was killed, and he lost everything. Now, how will he make it alone with almost nothing? He decided that the best course of action was to follow in his Mother's footsteps and become an adventurer; this decision ends up bringing him across the lands with some friends, but will his difference affect his adventure? Read Goble to find out. WHAT TO EXPECT Adventer Action World building Martial arts Almost no romance No harem Weekly release
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, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 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
6%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance + Adventure + Action + Fantasy (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
#3179 of 12,418 · 3129 below RS #50
By genre
beats 88% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 21% 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 over the recent window.
