The Last Auditor

Dale Kowalski has been a dangerous building inspector for eleven years and specializes in telling people, "Your building is going to collapse." No one thanked him. During a routine inspection, the old four-story building—the Kessler Building—did something no building should do: The entire floor caved in, and Dell fell all the way from Ashford Falls into a system panel. [Occupation assignment: Demolition expert (Level F)] Not a warrior, not a mage, but the lowest level in the entire professional system. Because what was thrown at him was not a hero, but an inspector. The problems in this new world are exactly the same as back home: what supports everything is jerry-rigged materials that no one has really investigated for decades. The monster's skeleton had structural flaws, the dungeon was built illegally, and at the bottom of it all, there was something much larger than a dilapidated house that should have been investigated long ago. Dell never wanted to be anyone's hero. He just wanted someone, anyone, to finally listen when he said, "This is illegal." A story about job burnout, structural engineering, and a system flow from another world that is precisely focused on load-bearing points.