by D.M.Aquilina
Naphtali is an ordinary boy, who lives an ordinary life as a blacksmith's apprentice with his Aunt in the city of Aldun. Naphtali hates it, he yearns for adventure. But Naphtali has no overwhelming skills, nothing that makes him stand out; there seems to be no way of escaping the mundane grip that life has on him. Even still, Naphtali can't quell the urge to be something great, to be like the Dragon Slayers. Alesia is a land filled with magical creatures of all sorts. The desert dragons that lie in the east, the frost dragons in the west; the fairies that buzz in the woods, and the mermaids in the depths of the seas. Each piece of this land is a sparkle of magical adventure, join Naphtali as he embarks upon it. Upload schedule: Dropping 20k words day one, then I'll be doing daily chapter uploads for about a week. After that I'll be uploading two to four chapters a week. Patreon: Most of the manuscript will be going up over the next couple of days. If you want to drop me a sub, binge it, then unsub, that's fine.
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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 72% of similar stories
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beats 39% 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 over the recent window.
