by Book_Slave
William Gray is nobody. A 24-year-old dropout in a world of dungeons and horrors, he scrapes by while the powerful decide who lives and dies. His life means nothing to them. Then a System appears. An offer: become entertainment for eldritch beings beyond his world, and gain the power to change everything. They don't care if he lives. They want a show. Fine. If his suffering is entertainment, he'll make it a performance worth watching. He'll claw his way from nobody to something the world can't ignore. But power has a price. Dungeons break. Rifts tear open. And those who already hold power rarely welcome new competition. William will rise. Or he'll become something far worse than ordinary. A Warlock.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 10 Oct 2026, 03:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 10 Oct 2026, 03:58 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 91% of similar stories
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beats 54% 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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
