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by adastra339
Alex goes to sleep one day and wakes up in a world almost exactly like his own, except for one thing— In 2002, rifts arrived in this world and changed it forever. He wakes up in a world with rifts, Classes, Guilds, and Levels as a result of a large-scale spatial distortion. But he isn’t the only new arrival. Across the world thousands of Outworlders wake up, most with high tier talents—all hoping to rise to the top of this new world. It’s a world where anyone with the talent can seize his own destiny. Alex certainly intends to seize his. *** What to expect— —Extensive worldbuilding in a modern-world setting, which also deeply explores its setting; for instance, in a world with the internet, realistically there’d be Youtube videos and forums about specific aspects of the magic system, widely circulated build guides, social media around magic/Awakened, a celebrity culture around Awakened, etc. —Chill, slice-of-life, exploratory pacing —A complex and internally consistent magic system with plenty of choice with regard to what you can do with the magic —Plenty of Skill grinding and level grinding, as well as Skill exploration! —Chapters are 4x/week, Saturday -> Tuesday!
#10
8/11/2026
Peak #20
5d
#9
8/11/2026
Peak #1
21d
#8
8/11/2026
Peak #18
9d
#7
8/11/2026
Peak #18
8d
#6
8/11/2026
Peak #20
5d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:38 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
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Adventure → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Contemporary (1%).
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
#2126 of 12,407 · 2076 below RS #50
By genre
beats 65% of similar stories
beats 19% of similar stories
beats 99% 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.