![Riftwalker [A Monster Hunting Fantasy]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalroadcdn.com%2Fpublic%2Fcovers-large%2F179839-riftwalker-a-monster-hunting-fantasy.jpg%3Ftime%3D1786744218&w=640&q=75)
by starpenned
All he has ever known is to heal. Cursed by fate, he finds himself learning to kill with the hands that have saved the lives of hundreds before. Leith, the son of an apothecary, has never hunted before. He hasn’t ever tasted adventure and he’s certainly never delved into the Rift. One day, when a horde of fiends approaches his village, he rushes to defend it. He risks his life and his heroism garners the attention of a true hero. From that day on, his life snowballs out of control and he embarks on the road to becoming a proper hunter. Of course, it’s never so simple. Leith wishes to focus on hunting and providing for his family, but he is unable to do so as he starts to notice issues all around him and his heart urges him to get involved. He finds himself investigating a conspiracy, rife with abductions and horrific human experiments, along with an unhealthy dose of political drama. Alongside this, his new responsibilities require an exorbitant sum of gold, something that the once-impoverished Leith struggles to acquire. He settles on hunting increasingly powerful fiends to fund his ventures, but engrossed by the thrill of the hunt, he misses out on one key issue. What if the monsters he must hunt are human? What to expect: - Fast progression and smart MC - Unique power system and spellcrafting - Real medical terms, disease, injuries, and treatments with fantasy medicine - Monster hunting galore! Updates 2x a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays!
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, 08:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:18 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
41%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Mystery → Action → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Mystery (37%).
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
#5988 of 12,176 · 5938 below RS #50
By genre
beats 93% of similar stories
beats 21% of similar stories
beats 73% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
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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