by Naerof
Pan has never seen the sky. He has spent his entire life believing the surface of Earth would kill him. He was wrong. Raised within one of humanity's last underground sanctuaries, Pan has only known the Vault and its ancient caretaker, the Shepherd. For over a thousand years, the Shepherd has protected its people from the truth… at a price. Forced to the surface after a mysterious Ichor fuses with his body… Pan awakens to a world completely transformed by the System. Towering forests have swallowed forgotten metropolises. Massive Titans roam the land. Humanity survives in scattered bastions, twisted by the System that remade the world. The further Pan ventures from the Vault, the more he questions why the Shepherd hid him from the new world… and what it feared. Some truths are worth dying for; others are worth becoming something else entirely. ... What to expect - Blood, gore, graphic violence - Meaningful Skill Evolutions & Mergings (Similar in scope to Hell Difficulty Tutorial and Path to Transcendence) - Numbers going up - Biohacking & Body Modification
No streak history
Rank updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#2470 of 7,637 · 2420 below #50
By genre
beats 98% of similar stories
beats 49% of similar stories
beats 65% 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 Action Rising Stars bar (≈8 new followers/day) costs about 447 views/day — the story currently gets ~59.
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.
