by Camadt (Alex Hancock)
The newest generation of online gaming systems has reached the Beta phase. These new systems immerse player's mind into the game, allowing them to experience every part of the digital world first hand. The only drawback is that if a player dies in the game, they die in real life. Death row inmates volunteer to be test subjects while the developers iron out the bug. Everything would have been fine, except a group of teenagers broke into one of the facilities and logged into the game. The teens are trapped until the Beta phase ends in a month. Kat Bates, the older sister and guardian of one of the teens goes into the game to protect her brother. In a world of digital danger that is full of murderers, can she survive long enough to get them both out?
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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 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
