My fantasy novel on webnovel is also like that. He is a novice monk and baker. He helps anyway he can.
A fair price truth seeker chronicle book 1
Awe by ergen is also a good MC but he is also trickster.
There are others like parallel world pharmacy, shoukoku no Altair, mushoku tensei etc.
If you wanna cry from nostalgia; read a book dedicated to our youth
If you want good story; read xian ni
If you want epic fantasy; read stormlight archive
But i am going to finish dragon slaying and other delusions first. Then I'll finish series 1. Then slave boy. Then wiise old mentor. Then 200 years later. Industrial era detective story.
Mc kills slavers. Boy decides that he wants to decide his own life path. Jumps off cliff before mc can convince him to come along. Long journey to western continent. Then pet falcon monster. Cutlass sword. No money so joins mercenary band like guts from berserk.
Series 3 - already halfway written. Its called Dragon Slaying and Other Delusions on scribble hub. Its about a small town civil servant who likes dogs and good food gets involuntarily conscripted on a dragon slaying suicide mission. Set 80 years after series 1 ends
Series 1 - small town boy gathers crew like one piece , invents garlic bread , goes on a worldwide taxonomical survey and gets involveed in power plays wars and elder dragon shenanigans
I am already writing that one. The other is a series that i have on scribble hub called - dragon slaying and other delusions.
It happens 80 years after the first series. Another is a prequel that you could write about the first guy's old wise mentor who had his own hero's journey.
I am writing a massive world and era spanning shared universe in a completely new fantasy original universe.
If you wanna collab then i can give you one part to write with guidelines.