by FJEspejo
Humanity is scrap metal to the Axiomante Empire. Kael is about to prove them wrong. For a thousand years, the machines have ruled. Humans don't fight back — they scavenge what's left. Then Kael touches the wrong piece of metal, and something ancient wakes up inside him. Now he can hack the enemy's own tech. Raise their dead war machines as his. Build an army out of a graveyard. They call him forbidden. He calls himself the Necromancer of Metal.
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, 17:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 17:08 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
23%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (18%).
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
#5540 of 12,365 · 5490 below RS #50
By genre
beats 93% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 81% 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.
