Ascension (2026)

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Ethan Cole walks into the capital with a fake name and skills nobody can explain. Kallivern is Crimson Council territory. The largest mage order in the realm, and they don't share. Ethan's plan is simple: be useful enough that they want him around, but not so useful that they start asking questions he can't answer. The plan works. The questions come anyway. The Council sends someone to watch him. She's good at her job. She's also not being told the full scope of her assignment. And the magic Ethan can see in this city — the ward networks, the failing infrastructure, the things the Council built and stopped maintaining — is worse than anything he found in the compound. ASCENSION is the second book in the Ethan's Optimization fantasy series. Contains explicit content. For adult readers only