by Greg Seldon
Arthur was a chemist working for Big Pharma, but his career ended when the board used him as a scapegoat for a disastrously failed drug. Stripped of his assets and his reputation, he retreats to the only thing he has left: a remote mountain cabin built by his great-grandfather. He expected the quiet, broke life of a hermit. Instead, he and his best friend, Marcus, uncovered a hidden entrance to a dungeon. Stepping near the entrance awakened Arthur's bloodline and a System. Broke, desperate, and with nothing left to lose, Arthur decided to take his chances in the dungeon rather than fade into obscurity on the surface. Unlicensed Alchemy is a light litRPG and crafting story set in a realistic urban fantasy world.
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, 06:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:58 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.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
23%
Two or more lists
7%
Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Contemporary (15%).
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
#5678 of 12,161 · 5628 below RS #50
By genre
beats 95% of similar stories
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beats 86% 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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
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