by Caffeinated Dreamer
The world evolved into a comic-book nightmare of gates, monsters, and rock-star S-Rankers. Me? I’m Ethan—a bottom-tier E-Ranker. Sure, I have a "busted" power that lets me steal and absorb monster souls. But while every dark anti-hero in fiction uses that kind of ability to edge-lord their way to global domination, I have far more realistic goals: keeping a roof over my adoptive sister's head, paying for her math tutoring, and using stolen monster passives to open stubborn pickle jars and never tire while running for the bus. I hunt harmless E-Rank Slimes, keep my head down, and stay out of trouble. But in a post-apocalypse Seoul where trouble always finds you, staying average might just be the hardest job of all.
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, 17:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 17:48 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
3%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Romance → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy + Romance + Action (0%).
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
#9875 of 12,372 · 9825 below RS #50
By genre
beats 90% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 64% 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 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
