by Ivnir
What price are you willing to pay to protect everyone you love? For Luka, he was willing to sacrifice everything. Born a slave, he was cursed by the God of Death, giving him a brief period of immortality that would end in five years and take his life with it. He had accepted his fate and worked endlessly to make the life of his family better, but the world wasn’t going to make it easy for him. They were chosen to be sacrificed to the God of Death, and his family was now being targeted by highly dangerous organizations and a cultist family, with his enemies growing each day. To survive this ordeal, Luka is forced to become stronger and make dangerous decisions for his family to live in safety, but there’s one thing he quickly realizes, safety is nowhere. If he couldn’t find somewhere safe for his family to live before he passed away, then he would build one, no matter the cost. Release Schedule: DAILY Average Chapter Length: 2,000-3000 words Cover art made by family.
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, 04:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:38 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
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance (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
#8650 of 12,099 · 8600 below RS #50
By genre
beats 86% of similar stories
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beats 14% 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.
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