by Kess99
The third stage is the highest anyone can go. Everyone knows that. Kiev has never been particularly interested in proving them wrong. A quiet forest cultivator with three affinities and an unusual way of seeing mana, he prefers understanding a problem to overpowering it. His staff keeps enemies at a distance. His magic makes sure they stay there. Cerl has a different philosophy. Put a sword in his hand and point him at the problem. Light and fire run through his blade, and he has never been very good at knowing when to stop moving forward. They have little in common. What begins as an inconvenient partnership soon draws them into something neither of them understands: strange changes in the land, questions the people around them would rather not answer, and a limit to cultivation that feels increasingly less like a natural boundary and more like something deliberately placed there. Everyone says its the peak. Kiev isn't so sure. Cerl wants to find out what's beyond it. And somewhere in the realm, something may already be waiting for them. What to expect; - A slow but steady rise to power. - Side characters that develop just as well as the MCs - Meaningful relations and intrigue - There is always someone stronger so no overpowered MCs
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 5 Oct 2026, 02:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 5 Oct 2026, 02:28 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
5%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Adventure → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Adventure + Action + Fantasy (2%).
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
#4016 of 12,356 · 3966 below RS #50
By genre
beats 61% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 2% 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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
