by Ae Mon Hansa San
The mist rules the world. Inside it, monsters wait. Humanity survives in small hidden groups, too afraid to leave — but some want to break the system and wander the mist anyway.Goom is eight years old, and he already dreams of becoming one of them.But before he could go looking for the mist, the mist came looking for him.
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, 12:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 5 Oct 2026, 12:48 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 25% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 24% of similar stories
Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
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 over the recent window.
