The System re-prices everything it notices. Hollis Beck noticed it back. Hollis was a forensic accountant the day the world was Integrated-Junk-class Support, a class called AUDITOR that cost the System one copper at bulk rate, and a stat sheet with his Luck redacted. He cannot fight. His STR is 6, his AGI is 7, and the sheet does not apologise. What he can do is read: every monster has an invoice, every dungeon runs a cost centre, and every fee the System charges rounds down to the nearest billable unit-which means a filing, filed correctly, rounds to zero. So Hollis does the one thing nobody in the tutorial thought to do. He audits the apocalypse. He finds the zone the System forgot to price. He follows the money through a debt market where a man's obligations can be bought, sold, and weaponised-and he builds the Practice at 14 Deansgate: Bertie, who drives the bus and the argument; Colm, who heals by taking your debts onto his own books; Nel, who keeps the journal that makes theft honest; and Priya, quartermaster, whose red pen the end of the world has only sharpened. The numbers in this book are not decoration. They reconcile. Check them-the fans of this genre do, and so does the Ledger. Somewhere in Hollis's first receipt is a total the Ledger itself has obscured, and a Luck line it refuses to print. The Ledger is patient. The Ledger is thorough. And the Ledger has started, very politely, to price him. AUDIT THE APOCALYPSE, Book 1: The Tutorial Audit-a complete arc. Book 1 of 10.
