Neighborhood - An Ascendancy Protocol Series

The System arrived on a Saturday morning and gave the world new rules. Lachlan Marsh read the rules, pressed his palms to his garden soil, and got to work.Six weeks later, his neighborhood is a fortified commons with light runes in every window, a Verdant Sovereign's Territory growing more powerful by the day, and a Blade Dancer lieutenant at the gate delivering a message from someone who has been building a private empire in the root network beneath the corridor.The Architect has been watching.The Neighborhood is a LitRPG progression fantasy about a family who discovers that what they already were matters more than anything the System could give them — and the methodical genius building toward regional dominance who is about to find out what a Verdant Sovereign's established Territory does to ground that someone else thought they owned.Violence of action. A land that fights back. A family that doesn't stop.Approximately 200,000 words. Book One of the Ascendancy Protocol Series.