by Iceman480
Jim never expected much from life. At twenty-four, he’s drifting through community college, working a dead-end gas station job, and spending most of his free time gaming. He has no real plan for the future. Then a car crashes into his store. Jim wakes in the hospital paralyzed from the neck down, trapped in a body he can no longer control. The life he used to complain about suddenly seems perfect. Then he’s offered another chance. Not a cure. A new world. A world of levels, skills, monsters, and death, where power can be earned and survival depends on becoming stronger. Jim accepts. But this isn’t a game. There are no resets, no walkthroughs, and no second chances. And something inside Jim is beginning to awaken. Something hungry. Something made to hunt.
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, 23:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 23:28 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
4%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Action (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
#9166 of 12,433 · 9116 below RS #50
By genre
beats 92% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 71% 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.
