by MagicCola666
🔥 **NOW LAUNCHED! 20+ Chapters Available to Binge!** 🔥**Daily Updates: Every single day (13:15 UTC / 9:15 AM EDT)!** ------Reborn two hours before the Apocalypse, armed with ten years of brutal wasteland memory, Lynn Cross empties the shelves to claim the ultimate head start. When an ancient aetheric rift shatters modern physics and fries all firearms, panic erupts. But while others scramble for useless handguns or starve in the dark, Lynn secures the first runic obelisk, executes an ancient blood covenant with an abyssal shadow beast, and turns discarded alchemical "trash" into god-tier elixirs. From a barricaded safehouse to an impenetrable runic fortress—those warlords who trampled him in the past timeline will soon learn: every mutant, every tyrant, and every descending god is just raw dissection material. ------What to Expect:- Ruthlessly Rational Male Lead: No idiot plots, no forced heroics, pure tactical survival.- Deep Alchemy & Crafting: Monster dissection, hidden bloodlines, and turning scrap into divine catalysts.- Multi-Beast Progression: From a lethal shadow stalker to a full legion of abyssal familiars.- Kingdom Building: Establishing trade rules and forging the premier wasteland citadel.- Hard LitRPG System: Crunchy stats, clear 9-tier power progression, and brutal combat. ------ Support & Community:🧪 **Read Ahead:** Want more right now? Read up to 10 Chapters Ahead on [Patreon]⚔️ **Join the Citadel:** Hang out with fellow readers, discuss alchemy & pet Nox on [Discord] ------ 🛡️ *Copyright Notice: This story is published exclusively on Royal Road and Patreon. If you are reading this on an aggregator or pirate site, it has been stolen without the author's permission. Please support the official release!*
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, 05:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 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
22%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Action → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (19%).
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
#9865 of 12,145 · 9815 below RS #50
By genre
beats 74% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 91% 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.
