The Mender Smith

A Healer LitRPG Crafting Saga

Tessa Vrenn is a Mender — the dismissed fourth class the Cleric Council insists is a flukish low-tier fusion of Cleric and Smith. The Council was wrong. Mender-forged implements absorb the wounds they touch. Old needles hold a thousand stories. New needles are mute. The progression currency is carried suffering, and the Council vaults are full of it. When Tessa lifts a black-iron chirurgeon's needle out of a relic crate marked INERT, the iron salts in her workshop tray stand up on their edges and point at her hand. By the end of the book she has stood public trial in a Council chamber. Bare-handed. In front of fifty witnesses. Death-Catching the cardiac event of the judge presiding over her own trial — the same judge whose family her grandmother was branded for.