Waywrights

Someone else is making roads. And they have noticed Corin Vale.

Corin got fifteen people out of the Wrongways alive. It cost him a leg, and it earned him a fee and his first road. Now a stranger's pin is turning up in the ground, closer every night, cut with a maker's mark nobody should still be using.

Ilse Wendt pays in brass pins. She needs a Line-Reader to follow her mother's trail west, into country the official maps say is empty. Out there, roads have been wiped so hard the ground goes blank and hungry. Whole villages walk paths they can no longer remember. And a polite surveyor from the Office keeps asking exactly the right questions.

Corin is one of an old trade the world was made to forget, and someone has spent a very long time making sure it stays forgotten. Verdict has opinions about all of it.

The pay is good. The road is worse. Corin intends to own it anyway.

Waywrights is the second book in Uncharted Skills, a progression LitRPG set in Kelvara.