
by LastCell
One day, a hundred thousand people from Earth woke up on an endless plain and were forced into a deadly survival game. Each player started with one vehicle and a unique skill. Regional chat lit up instantly—some players crying for their lives, while others gloated over their Humvees, tanks, and armored personnel carriers. [Huh, my unique skill can summon an Infernal Legion! Guess I have a personal army now! This night'll be easy~] [Hmph! That's nothing—my legendary unique skill can summon an Angel! Brother, God himself is with me. What are waves of zombies to me?] Nyx looked at his bicycle. Then at his skill: Unique Skill, Usurper: Extract part of the loot from any zombie corpse within range, regardless of who killed it. He said nothing, and only observed. As night fell, the zombie horde surged across the plains. Players scrambled into their vehicles—some screaming for help, others already boasting in chat about their first kills. Nyx didn't fight. He rode. A bicycle makes almost no noise. While the "big shots" carved through zombies in the open, Nyx slipped through the chaos, siphoning the resources off their every kill. Leather, mechanical parts, iron sheets, soul cores, gold—none of it was his by right, but Usurper didn't care whose kill it was. While everyone else struggled just to survive, Nyx looted and fought in the shadows, quietly evolving. Bicycle → Armored Racer → ORV Polaris → Mobile Fortress → Mechanized Titan → ??? Steal Loot → Steal Mana → Steal Attribute → Steal Skills → ???
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Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#384 of 7,531 · 334 below #50
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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.
At this conversion, the Sci-fi Rising Stars bar (≈1 new followers/day) costs about 35 views/day — the story currently gets ~51.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 5–9 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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