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by roadmp3
Four girls. Four new identities. One apocalyptic goal. Meet Slaughter, Dearth, Malady and Conquest. On October 1st, 2024, they all lost consciousness at the same time and woke up to strange new powers including, but not limited to, the ability to kill people with a single touch. With their old lives overturned and the shadow of a common enemy growing ever closer, they’ll have no choice but to band together—whether to stop the apocalypse or to trigger it, only time will tell.
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, 03:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:28 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
15%
Two or more lists
10%
Likely threshold order: Short Story → Contemporary → Main.
Leading bundle: Contemporary + Short Story (10%).
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
#2587 of 12,409 · 2537 below RS #50
By genre
beats 18% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 40% 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.
