Infinite Forge (Forging Without Limits #1)

In the world of the system, everyone gets a class at eighteen. Most kids in Thornwall went to the combat tents. Edric Moss ended up at the back of the fair, in a patched canvas tent with no banner, talking to a dwarf who asked him to hold a piece of metal and say what he felt.

He said it was heavy for its size. He said one side felt different from the other.

Borin Ashgrit told him to come back at sixth bell.

That was the beginning.

Infinite Forge follows Edric through his first months as a blacksmith's apprentice in the small town of Dunmore. The fundamentals, the mana work, the forge, and the slow discovery that what he puts into the things he makes tends to stay there. That his mana pool grows every time he finishes a piece. That the system keeps generating new vocabulary to describe what he produces.

That his ceiling, when Stonemantle looked for it, wasn't there.

Cozy progression fantasy. Slow burn. Crafting