by Red Beast
SEASON 2 IS NOW LIVE! New chapters dropping regularly!!!! "The only one capable of defeating a monster... is a beast." At seventeen years old, Dev Shetty stands among the strongest fighters in Krantos, the world's greatest combat sport. But strength alone didn't bring him there. Behind every victory lies a story of friendship, ambition, love, heartbreak, sacrifice, and the darkness slowly growing within him. As the years pass, the battles outside the arena become just as important as the ones fought inside it. This is not the story of how a boy became stronger. This is the story of what it cost.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 14 Oct 2026, 10:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 14 Oct 2026, 10:28 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
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Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
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.
