
by Darren Yu
Betrayed and murdered by the two people he trusted most, Li Fan opens his eyes to find himself ten years in the past—on the launch day of the revolutionary VR game Endless Firmament. In his previous life, he entered the game too late. Although a decade of relentless fighting eventually carried him into the ranks of the world’s strongest warriors, all that power could not save him from a blade in the back. Now, armed with memories of the future, Li Fan intends to seize every opportunity he once missed. His second chance begins with a hidden class, the Aegis Warrior, and an SSS-rank talent with limitless potential: every monster he kills permanently increases his Agility. For an ordinary player, Agility is merely another stat. For Li Fan, it becomes an engine of unstoppable growth. Every victory makes him move faster and strike more often, transforming a supposedly slow, defensive tank into a blur that bosses cannot touch and gods cannot follow. But Li Fan knows the truth that the rest of the world has yet to discover. Endless Firmament is more than entertainment. In one hundred days, its power will cross into reality—and an invading civilization from the Abyss will turn the world into a battlefield. With the apocalypse approaching, Li Fan has one hundred days to claim the game’s greatest treasures, settle the betrayals of his former life, and become the last shield humanity will ever need.The only problem for his enemies? This shield moves faster than light.
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, 22:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 5 Oct 2026, 22:38 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
17%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (16%).
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
#4314 of 5,476 · 4264 below RS #50
By genre
beats 82% of similar stories
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beats 87% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.