The Deepest Well Novels & Stories

The well was deep. Andrew estimated they had already descended about 150 feet, so he shone his high-powered flashlight downward. However, the bottom was still swallowed in darkness, with no end in sight. Tiana gasped. "A typical well is about 45 feet deep at most? We've come down the equivalent of 15 stories, and it still goes on? How in the world did the people of Gallow's End manage to dig something this deep?" Andrew continued his descent with steady movements. "No idea. But maybe this well wasn't dug for water, and maybe it wasn't even made by the villagers of Gallow's End."

The original parallel excavation was changed to the current deep excavation. According to the operating permit approved by the Ministry of Mineral Resources of Wyverna, the maximum depth of excavation for each mining area should not exceed 1200 meters. However, the depth of excavation in the Pearson Town mining areas had reached over 3,000 meters and was still deepening at that point.

A Deafening explosion took place before the cheering of the scientist resounded on the roof of the nursery. Deep below the earth, there was a "pocket" where the Earth wolves lived. It was at least 40 meters tall, supported with beams made of compacted soil across the kilometer that it had in length. On the sides, numerous excavated little caves where packs could rest, eat and mate. But the biggest one was that on the deepest part of the pocket, where a constant growling resounded, and a permanent sulfur smell permeated the air.

The Pacific Trench Hollow was not merely a scar; it was a cathedral of absence. Located seven miles beneath the surface of the ocean, it was a massive, pressurized void left behind by the Thorne Council’s "Project Abyss" an attempt to harvest geothermal data at the planet’s thermal limit. If it collapsed, the resulting displacement would trigger tsunamis that would rewrite the coastlines of three continents.

TIME: 03:00 HOURS. LOCATION: SECTOR 8 - THE "DEEP SUMP." STATUS: EXILE. They didn't find a spaceship to whisk them away. They didn't find a secret rebel base with hot food and soft beds. They found sewage. Ren Walker, formerly the top sniper in Aegis Online and briefly a millionaire, was currently wading through thigh-deep sludge in the lowest drainage tunnels of Aethelgard. This was the Deep Sump—the subterranean intestine where all the city's chemical runoff, biological waste, and industrial slurry flowed before it was pumped out to the dead ocean.

Jack nodded his thanks and let the fireball that was floating in his palm ready to free him fizzle out. They dove down below into the dark murky water. Alex used her hand to feel along the side of the well. She tapped on the wall every few meters to get a good idea of what was around them. The well was incredibly deep and had what seemed to be layers of barrel shaped items at the bottom. Maybe hundreds of them. She located the hatch using the taps against the well's sides that send thunderous waves of sound out and back again. Jack followed her as she swam for the door.

BOOK THREE: THE DEEP FORGE (Jace’s Perspective) When you drop a fishing line into a black ocean, you expect to catch the water. You don’t expect the water to bite back. I stood in the subterranean vault beneath the Emperor’s palace, staring at the glowing blue chain that vanished into the two-mile-deep shaft. The five hundred miners were celebrating, passing heavy skins of water, their exhausted laughter echoing off the granite walls. Valerius and Elara were completely absorbed in the euphoric, rhythmic stability of the newly anchored capital grid.

But none of that helped because Zeus ended up finding us. -Running away from me?" he asked, appearing in our new house. -Zeus... -I warned you, I warned you and your husband that if you tried to escape I would exterminate you. -We don't care, kill us if you want. -Where is the girl? -She's not with us, but I assure you she's far away from you. -Tell me where she is. -Never, you can torture me if you want but I will never tell you.

This meant that the wells were probably interconnected underground, and not all the wells got their water from their own underground reservoir. Wilbur believed there could be an underground river connected to the wells beneath them. There was no way a mere five wells could support a desert town with a population of over two hundred thousand people, as each well was just around six meters deep. After all, the Levon Desert was huge. It was impossible for water to be found at a depth of ten meters, especially not to this scale. It was nearly impossible for there to be an underground river under the desert with this much water, at least not naturally. Wilbur gave it some thought and deduced that