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by BLANK234
Nathan Vance was a washed-up Hunter with a dying mana core. He went into a Gate expecting to pay his bills. He came out ten years younger, under a name that isn't his, sharing his skull with something that used to be a prince. Two people survived that Gate. Noah is one. He intends to find the other. The problem is that the Gate was never an accident. Someone built it. Someone is still building them. And the only way to reach those people is to climb the guild rankings from the absolute bottom with a dead man's name, borrowed power, and a passenger who won't shut up. What to expect:— Two souls, one skull. A burnt-out ex-paladin and an ancient Elysian prince sharing a headspace, and neither of them is gracious about it.— Investigation, not just clearing. Guild politics, corrupted Gate anomalies, and a conspiracy running from London to Siberia to Tokyo.— Power absorption and ability evolution, with costs that stick.— Light LitRPG. Clean system prompts and stat tracking, in service of the mystery rather than instead of it. 🗓️ Releases: Monday–Friday, 16:04 UTC / 12:04 PM ET
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, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 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
4%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Mystery → Adventure → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Mystery (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
#10890 of 12,418 · 10840 below RS #50
By genre
beats 30% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 53% 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.
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.