Respawn in D Minor (The Exiled Administrators Cycle Book 1)

The piano killed Dave Minor on a Tuesday. Fifty-two years old, carrying groceries, dead before the Gruyère hit the floor. He woke up naked in a mossy clearing with a HUD in his face, zero levels, and rabbits that bit back. Most people who get isekai'd are twenty-three and chosen. Dave is a server administrator from Chicago who buys fancy cheese on impulse. The System doesn't care. It marks him Wanderer, hands him a crafting class, and drops him in a tutorial designed to either make or break him. It made him. Badly. By the time Dave emerges as a master runesmith and reluctant mage — with a juvenile administrative dragon named Puff on his shoulder and a legendary ring fused into his hand — Chicago is bleeding. Rifts tear open the sky above the Willis Tower. Phase 2 is coming. And the System that rewrote the rules of reality is about to make death permanent. Dave Minor is not a hero. He's a man who fixes things. He's about to find out if that's enough. Book 1 of The Exiled Administrators Cycle.