Ascend City  —  Mika Appeal × Kekskönig

Forty techniques. Eleven work.

Anyone can hand you a list. Nobody tells you which eleven do the work, which twenty-two waste your time, and which seven wreck your face permanently. We sorted them.

144Pages
94Chapters
130+Verdicts
2Volumes
The method

Four labels.
No exceptions.

Most guides put a dermatologist-grade treatment and something invented on a forum on the same page, in the same tone. Ours doesn't.

Confirmed

It works

Solid evidence, mechanism we understand, results you can count on. Where nearly all your progress comes from.

11
Worth trying

Unproven, harmless

Mechanism holds up, evidence is thin, worst case is nothing happens. Both halves have to be true.

09
Cope

Doesn't do that

Does something small and real, gets sold as something huge. We say which half is which.

22
Don't

This damages you

Real chance of permanent harm, no established upside. We show exactly where the theory breaks.

07
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Cope check

Tap anything you've heard of. Real verdict, straight out of the guide, with the chapter it came from.

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Two volumes

What you get

One for everything you can do yourself. One for everything that needs a doctor.

Ascend City  ·  Vol 01
The
Softmax
Guide
Everything you can do yourself. Free, or close to it.
78 pages49 chapters
  • Sleep, body composition, training, water
  • Full acne protocol, actives, scarring, sun
  • Hair loss — the only three things that work
  • Jaw, eyes, nose, teeth, posture, asymmetry
  • Grooming, fit, fragrance, photos, voice
  • The cope list, and how to spot the next one
18+
Ascend City  ·  Vol 02
The
Hardmax
Guide
Prescription medicine, injectables, dentistry, surgery.
66 pages45 chapters
  • Verifying credentials, nine questions, red flags
  • Bloodwork, isotretinoin, hair loss meds, TRT
  • Filler by area, botox, lasers, what gel can't do
  • Whitening, bonding, veneers, braces, expansion
  • Eight operations, honestly costed
  • Recovery, revision, regret, what's permanent
Access

Both volumes,
one place.

Everything runs through Skool. Cancel whenever — nobody's locking you in.

The Course

Both guides plus the server. Where most people should start.

€19.99€24.99
per month · cancel anytime
  • Softmax + Hardmax, 144 pages
  • Every technique labelled and sourced
  • Free updates, including when we're wrong
  • Full community access
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1:1 Coaching

Two of us, a handful of people. It sells out and then it's shut.

€40€50
august only · 18+
  • Regular calls with both of us
  • Written feedback between calls
  • A plan for your actual starting point
  • Both guides included
  • Keep €40 for as long as you stay
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The server

Ascend City

Where the guides get argued with. Ask something, get an answer that isn't trying to sell you a stack. Free — you don't need the course to be in there.

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Questions we get

FAQ

Some of the raw information, yes. What isn't free is the sorting. Forums give you eighty techniques with equal weight and a lot of confidence. We read the papers behind the popular ones and a lot of them fall apart past the abstract.

Use the cope check above. If it doesn't tell you something new, don't buy it.

The rabbit study everyone links used appliances surgically screwed into skulls, on growing animals, with calibrated force. Real adult palatal expansion needs miniscrews driven into bone, or a surgeon. There's a reason that hardware exists.

Bonesmashing: what you see is callus, and callus resorbs. What stays is asymmetry, because you can't control where it forms.

The Softmax Guide is fine at any age — sleep, skin, training, grooming, posture. Nothing in it can hurt you.

The Hardmax Guide is 18+, and so is coaching. If you're fifteen and worried about your jaw: your face isn't finished. Do the boring parts and come back in a few years.

A list of compounds and what each does isn't information, it's a menu — and most people reading this are between fifteen and twenty-two, the exact age where these do permanent damage. Growth plates close early. Gyno doesn't reverse. Hair loss doesn't come back.

The Hardmax Guide covers the honest risk picture, because you'll run into this material anyway. What we won't do is tell you where to buy it.

We change it, you get the update free, and we say what changed rather than quietly editing it. Come argue in the Discord — a good chunk of the first-edition corrections came from people in there.