The Builder's Path (Book 1): A Crafting LitRPG Progression Fantasy

Some rise by the sword. Others by magic. He'll rise by work done right.

Sergey knew what held buildings up—and how to bring them down properly. After his death, that knowledge was the only thing he had left.

He wakes in another world, in the body of Ray—a penniless village teenager with a thief's reputation and a single shovel to his name. No machinery. No manuals. But there is a System, and it sees straight through the masonry. It calls out every flaw by name: a wall three millimeters out of plumb, an unbonded northeast corner. Workmanship quality: 44%.

And seven days to fully settle into his new body. Fail, and he burns out and dies.

His first job: an ordinary village stove a drunken master mason has already managed to wreck.

The System, apparently, wasn't built for this.

The Builder's Path is Book 1 of a crafting progression fantasy series where power comes by trowel and shovel, not by sword—and the System grades every joint.

What to expect: hands-on construction and practical engineering, village life and local relationships, a ruined reputation rebuilt one job at a time, everyday survival and trade, and steady System progression driven by creating useful things.