by amicus
Kai thinks he's just roasting a bad novel. Ascension of the Blade Angel is stuffed with typos, plot holes, and a protagonist so dull he makes cardboard look three-dimensional. A hate-read, but one Kai can't put down. "Even I could be a better protagonist than this," he mutters. Are you sure about that? The novel's story folds into reality, two worlds stitched together whether they like it or not, and Kai finds himself caught in the seam. At first, he does what anyone would: calls it a dream, enjoys it, and waits to wake up. He doesn't. Pain is real here, danger is real here, and he only ever read halfway through the first arc. Everything past that point, blank. If he wants to make it through and protect the people he loves, he'll have to live up to his own words... And become the protagonist. What to expect: - Updates every other day for the first month.- Chapter length vary from 2k to 4k words. 3k on average.- Steady progression & power growth.- LitRPG elements, but not heavy.- No harem.- Character & world development, along with action and adventure. A curated blend of everything. Credits to my dear friend Flicker (on BlueSky) for the amazing cover art.
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
12%
Two or more lists
6%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy (6%).
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
#7391 of 12,409 · 7341 below RS #50
By genre
beats 95% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 62% 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 lifetime.
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