Deep Tender Book 1 - The Abyss Base - Lina Will

Written by Lina Will
Read by Josef Wesley
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Rosa Delgado was a commercial saturation diver and certified underwater welder—until the System audited her dive log and reassigned her to a sector that’s literally falling apart.

Habitats are failing. Pressure crystals are dying. Hull integrity is collapsing across the board. And the “administrator” in charge—a bioluminescent jellyfish in corporate mode—needs one thing:

Someone who understands that a viewport has a rated depth for a reason.

CLASS ASSIGNED: DEPTH WARDEN
A rare builder-type role designed for maintenance, reinforcement, and structural survival in an ocean that goes down forever.

Rosa’s first job site is a half-salvaged outpost anchored to ancient bone on the seafloor—cold metal, improvised bracing, leaking seals, and a beacon that’s basically an invitation to everything hungry in the dark. Now every weld earns XP. Every patch is progression. Every upgrade is a choice between safety now… and danger later.

Because light attracts attention.

To survive, Rosa has to do what she’s always done—only now she’s doing it with a System watching, a base that wants to become a fortress, and threats that don’t care about best practices. Build. Repair. Expand. Defend. And pray the next breach waits until she’s finished the upgrade queue.

THE ABYSS BASE is an underwater LitRPG base-building adventure packed with progression, crafting, structural upgrades, and survival stakes—where competence is power, and one mistake can flood everything you’ve built.

Perfect for fans of:

Builder-class LitRPG and crunchy progression
Crafting, upgrading, and “one more improvement” gameplay loops
High-pressure survival in a hostile, beautiful deep-sea world