
by Blenderbeetle
Did you try turning your System off and on again? Ember is burning. The System isn’t just powerless to stop it, it’s holding the matches. With each new System glitch, the world descends further into chaos, and the most recent failure is dragging Earth into the fray. Enter Rayna: an introverted bookworm who doesn’t even like video games. But when her only friend is kidnapped, Rayna follows her to Ember without a second thought. Now she is in way over her head, desperate to save her friend and willing to do anything she needs to in order to get both of them back home alive. If she can save the other ten million isekaied humans in the process, that’s just a bonus. Navigating deadly challenges, an unexpected race change, and System glitches that feel way too personal, Rayna will do whatever it takes to get her and her friend back to Earth in one piece. What to expect: - Glitchy System - Non-Human MC - Chaos Gremlin MC - Large Cast, Multi-POV - Humans are Space Orcs Note: This is a heavily-edited rerelease of the fiction "The Stubborn Light of a Dying Flame". The first fifteen chapters or so remain largely the same, but things start to diverge starting from the time when Lord and Lady Emery enter the story.
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, 04:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:18 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
34%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (34%).
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
#4769 of 12,416 · 4719 below RS #50
By genre
beats 89% of similar stories
beats 63% of similar stories
beats 81% 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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