by FQL
A light novel set in a fantasy RPG world. Lestra, the dark mage, burns village after village to gather more followers. One of her acts once split a single body into two separate souls. Now the three of them, Lestra and those two souls, are bound to the same soul: a wound on one becomes a wound on all three. Leo comes for revenge, for the village he lost. Rave never realized his family's own technique would set everything in motion. Moph and Lydia carry the old wound of an elven people Lestra once destroyed. One by one, the party learns the truth: their enemy isn't just a dark power to break. To some of them, she was once the person they trusted most, someone full of compassion, before hatred took her over. And if hatred has already swallowed that compassion whole, can they be the ones to end it? To end the hatred, would you be the final seal?
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 16 Oct 2026, 04:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 16 Oct 2026, 04:08 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.
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beats 85% of similar stories
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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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
