The Impossible Bridge

Bradley Moreno has spent twenty years repairing bridges. His first job in another world is to keep a courier from falling out of the sky. His new Builder class lets him bind ordinary materials into extraordinary structures. Scrap timber can carry an impossible load. With practice, a binding can keep working when he walks away. Given tools, a workshop and a decent crew, he could get used to this. But the valley's main bridge is gone, and the last winter convoy leaves in thirty days. One island has the food and the road. The other has the stone, the riggers and families who need to cross. Both remember the last time they trusted their neighbors with the gate. Bradley starts with a light goods line and a job he can name the end of. Each crossing opens another possibility: better work, new friends, a place of his own. Now he can see a way across the whole gulf. He'll need both islands to help him build it. A crafting LitRPG adventure with an experienced adult protagonist, a light System, low combat, and the pleasure of making something useful.