by KingKoschei
Kaito Tsumori is a down on his luck stray. After being kidnapped by an ancient cult he's faced with death or consuming the soul of a Shaman god to live. Neither were good options. He awakens with too many arms and eyes and an ocean of Ether at his disposal in a world that wants him dead. Maddie Grey is an Etherless Kin-killer in a world of Shamans where nothing could be worse. The only reason she breathes is because nobody is strong enough to kill her. Two worlds collide when a routine mission goes wrong. A town burns and a monster rises from the ashes. Kaito wants to stop being a monster. Maddie wants back what she lost. Neither of them can catch a breath, and a god is coming for them both. What to expect- Hard magic system built on emotion and equivalent exchange.- Weakest to strongest progression. No LitRPG elements.- Slow-burn romance.- Sects, Swords, Murder, Monsters and a sprinkling of Love :)- Psychological.- 2,000–3,500 word chapters, give or take, daily through launch.- Completed first draft. No abandonment risk.
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, 08:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:38 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
3%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Psychological → Romance → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Psychological + Romance + Action (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
#9535 of 12,184 · 9485 below RS #50
By genre
beats 70% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 20% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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.
