by Aster09
Shadow Core: Drive Speed is elemental. Shadows are supreme. In a world governed by the Velo-Frame Circuit, elite riders command high-tech, elemental motorcycles to claim regional dominance. At the bottom of the ladder is Aster Vance, an unranked street racer armed with a banned, shadow-fueled prototype machine called Eclipse. To clear his debts and earn his place among the racing elite, Aster must challenge the eight legendary Hub Masters on their own deadly tracks. Starting in the brutal stone canyons of the Terra Hub, Aster will have to push friction, gravity, and his own instincts past the absolute limit—or crash trying.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 13 Oct 2026, 12:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Oct 2026, 12:58 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.
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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 2–4 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
