by Akkivir
Vincent Gallows didn’t volunteer to be carved open, implanted with experimental tech, and bonded to a monster — but the army didn’t ask. Ten days ago, he was celebrating his seventeenth birthday. Yesterday, soldiers dragged him from his home. Today, he’s trapped in the Goldarian military’s grafter program, where conscripted teens are surgically implanted with devices to control bioengineered creatures and forced to fight a war they never chose. If Vincent fails, his nine‑year‑old sister will be next. The system sees kids like him as disposable tools. Rival cadets see him as competition. And the creature he’s bonded to — a massive reptilian grafter with a mind of its own — wants control. Vincent’s only goal is to survive long enough to remain someone his sister will still recognize.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 3 Oct 2026, 16:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 16:08 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
7%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Psychological → Adventure → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (3%).
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
#9343 of 12,355 · 9293 below RS #50
By genre
beats 62% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 26% 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.
