Beyond Horizon’s Reach

Book 4

by Lucent Steele

Beyond Horizon's Reach - Lucent Steele - Ascension Framework

Part of the The Complete Ascension Framework Series series:

The Tutorials cast billions into trials of strength, skill, and will.
When they end, the first sparks of a new order blaze across the globe.

The System is no longer a theory.
It is no longer a secret.

It is now the way of life itself.

As the world changes, a united humanity faces mounting challenges.

First, we learn that we are no longer alone in the universe.

Then, an impossibly powerful enemy discovers Earth and begins opening portals to test humanity’s response.

As humanity rises to meet its new destiny, one warrior from among the billions steps forward to face what lies beyond horizon's reach.

For fans of:
• Progression Fantasy
• LitRPG
• Character-driven Science Fiction
• Expansive worldbuilding
• Stories that explore not just what we can become… but what we should.

Published: March 14, 2026
Publisher: Silent Vesper Press
Genres:

Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Alien Invasion, Sci Fi - Genetic Manipulation, Sci Fi - LitRPG, Sci Fi - Military

Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters

Excerpt:

About the Author

Lucent Steele writes stories about what happens when humanity collides with destiny, when the impossible becomes inevitable.

His books weave light LitRPG System mechanics with near-future science fiction and deeply personal character arcs. At their heart, they’re about growth: leveling up, pushing past limits, and finding out whether humanity is truly ready for the power it has always dreamed of obtaining.

Lucent’s debut series, The Ascension Framework, explores a future where nanotech, karmic systems, and alien incursions force humanity to confront what it’s truly made of. The first four books are available on Amazon now, with the fifth coming in Summer of 2026.

His second series, "The Drunken System," comes out in the fall of 2026. Look for it on Amazon!

Lucent spent his career in sales in the steel industry and is passionate about sustainability and the future of humanity.

He lives in Michigan with his wife, their dog Minnie, and their cat Kiki.

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Summary: WILL YOU BE ONE OF THE INVITED? A forbidden midnight market is coming to town. The Night Bazaar isn't new. In fact, it's as old as civilization. Its first recorded appearance was in Sana'a, around 700 B.C.E. with secretive merchants from the East who presented covered stalls of exotic goods and arcane services. Various mentions appear in obscure and controversial works from around the world. The only common element is that the market opens at midnight, closes before sunrise, and may appear for up to a week in the same city . . . Paris, 1796 . . . London, 1888 . . . Berlin, 1936 . . . San Francisco, 1906 . . . but never in the same venue each night. And never again in the same city. There's just one catch: In order to find it, you must be Invited. Tonight, The Night Bazaar opens in a parking garage somewhere in Manhattan. A whole subterranean city full of antique costumes, alchemical treatments, magical dentistry, palmistry, Tarot, tea leaf-reading, and water-, glass-, and crystal-gazing, oddities and objets d’art, medical curiosities and surgical instruments. Other lost arts and body alterations are offered in certain alcoves. Through the narrow aisles throng jongleurs, freaks, charlatans, mountebanks, faeries, prostitutes, and acrobats. The scents of opium, perfume, tobacco, greasepaint, incense, plastic explosive, alcohol, and sex permeate the air. But each object or service comes with a gift, a curse, or a haunting. (This is the summary of volume one. However, The Night Bazaar anthologies need not be read in any particular order; they are all designed to stand alone as well.) The Bazaar sells that which cannot be had elsewhere. Everything you’ve read about but thought had passed away, or perhaps never existed. How wrong you were! Your guide is Madame Vera, a tall, thin woman of uncertain age, ethnicity, and trustworthiness. The stories within are your invitation to join us. It seems you have already spotted something you desire . . . but don’t head off that way, not just yet. You have all night . . . but not a moment more.