The Othryos Descent

by Blake Reilly

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When independent demolition specialist Kalliades takes a contract to scuttle the massive, deep-water salvage rig Kymatothia, it seems like a standard hazard job. The rig is isolated above a treacherous sub-surface trench, and the company wants the deteriorating structure gone. But Kalliades bears an ancient oceanic mark on his skin—a trait that makes him uniquely capable of surviving the crushing depths, and precisely what the anomaly beneath the rig is hunting. After a catastrophic structural failure, Kalliades wakes up three days in the past. Now trapped in a repeating time loop, he must use his structural expertise and precise application of explosives to reverse-engineer the disaster, navigate a paranoid crew, and outwit whatever is systematically dismantling the rig from the abyss.

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Table of contents

24 ChaptersRSS
Chapter NameRelease Date
1. Descent Into the Trench
2. The Wet Galleries
3. Mapping the Decay
4. The Groan in D-Minor
5. The Sound in the Steel
6. The Tearing Frame
7. Warnings From the Deep
8. The Containment Protocol
9. Calculating the Breach
10. The Tensile Strain
11. The Buckling Column
12. The Intake Vortex
13. The Crushing Weight
14. Cutting the Shear Stress
15. The Wake of the Kymatothia
16. The Grinding Pulse
17. The Metal Remembers
18. Severing the Surface
19. The Predictive Diagnosis
20. Mapping the Grip
21. The Acoustic Target
22. Amputating the Steel
23. Tracing the Pulse
24. The Closing Window

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