
by Kessedi
The System has come to Earth. One moment, James Roller was cutting plywood. The next, humanity was thrown into a deadly tutorial where levels meant survival, monsters gave experience, and the weak were expected to die. The only things James had were a toolbelt, a stubborn streak, and years of experience solving problems with wood, stone, steel, and sweat. When he is separated from the others and forced to survive alone, those skills become the difference between life and death. Every structure James builds, every monster he kills, and every strange rune he discovers pushes him toward a class no one has seen before: Rune Carpenter. And if the multiverse thinks Earth is easy material to break, James Roller is ready to prove that even the lowest realm can be reinforced.
#5
8/21/2026
Peak #4
28d
#4
8/21/2026
Peak #4
30d
#3
8/21/2026
Peak #4
27d
#2
8/21/2026
Peak #4
28d
#1
8/19/2026
Peak #2
39d
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: Adventure → Drama → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Adventure (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
#2754 of 12,418 · 2704 below RS #50
By genre
beats 82% of similar stories
beats 17% of similar stories
beats 98% 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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