
by Tony_Lii
Yoo Hajin spent three years and 709 chapters writing a story he never got to finish. Terminal cancer took care of that. Turns out death isn't the end it's a very rude wake-up call from a god who happens to be his biggest fan, and who is deeply unsatisfied with an unfinished manuscript. So now Hajin's back. Not as his protagonist, though. That would be too easy. He's a mob extra. A background character. A hunter named Dylan Harrow seventeen, friendless, and currently bleeding out on a dungeon floor after his so-called allies used him as bait and left him for dead. Welcome to Nexus Academy, where dungeons have been swallowing cities for over last twenty three years, hunters climb over each other's corpses for glory, and the god watching from the shadows finds all of it hilarious. Hajin didn't ask to be here. He didn't ask for a body that isn't his, a story he didn't write, or a divine landlord with a mocking commentary track. But if a cruel god wants a proper ending he's going to get one written in blood, sarcasm, and every dirty trick a dying author can steal. Cherish life, his father used to say. Trials from God make you stronger. Hajin's got a few thoughts about that now. None of them are polite.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 6 Oct 2026, 05:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 6 Oct 2026, 05:28 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
5%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Mystery → Adventure → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Mystery (2%).
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
#717 of 1,744 · 667 below RS #50
By genre
beats 79% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 46% 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.