Disaster-Level Player Is Too Good at Broadcasting-Chapter 71: « Where The Tower Gets The Name Abyss [1] »
The air changed the moment the coalition team stepped onto Floor 11.
It wasn’t dramatic at first. There was no thunder, no monstrous roar announcing their arrival. Instead, the shift came quietly, like pressure building beneath the skin.
Thirty-three rankers stood spread across the open stone expanse of the floor while the nine porters gathered slightly behind them carrying the sealed logistics crates. The portal behind them faded slowly until it disappeared entirely, leaving only the endless gray landscape of the tower floor stretching toward the horizon.
At first glance, Floor 11 looked strangely empty.
There were no forests, no ruined cities, no mountains or rivers like some of the lower floors had shown. Just a wide plain of black stone under a dim sky where pale clouds drifted without direction.
But far in the distance something broke the horizon.
A massive circular depression carved into the land.
Even from this distance, its edges were sharp and unnatural.
"That’s it."
One of the Blue Dragon rankers spoke quietly while adjusting the weapon strapped across his back.
"The ruins."
Several members of the expedition team stared toward the structure.
It looked like the ground itself had collapsed inward.
From above, it resembled a gigantic crater.
But as they moved closer, the details began to reveal themselves.
The stone around the edges wasn’t cracked like a natural collapse.
It had been carved.
Massive geometric patterns spiraled along the inner walls of the sinkhole, forming terraces that descended deeper and deeper into darkness. Ancient structures clung to the stone at irregular intervals, half buried within the circular layers as if entire cities had once been swallowed by the earth.
The deeper sections disappeared into blackness so thick it almost seemed alive.
"Wait..."
One of the EU players muttered.
"That’s not a ruin."
Another ranker narrowed his eyes.
"That’s a hole."
The expedition slowly stopped near the outer edge.
Even the most experienced climbers seemed unsettled as they looked down.
The sinkhole was enormous.
It easily stretched several kilometers across.
And the deeper they looked, the more unsettling it felt.
Because the bottom wasn’t visible.
A cold wind rose from the abyss below, brushing against their coats and armor like the breath of something sleeping far beneath the ground.
"This..."
One of the White Stars rankers said quietly.
"...doesn’t look like any ruin I’ve seen."
Several murmurs spread through the group.
Even the vanguard units from Iron Aegis and Siberian Fist looked uncertain as they studied the structure.
Then a voice broke through the confusion.
"You’re all thinking about it the wrong way."
Sasha Kim stepped forward.
The white trench coat she wore fluttered slightly in the rising wind as she approached the edge of the massive sinkhole. Her orange hair moved gently across her shoulders while her green eyes scanned the descending terraces below.
Everyone turned toward her.
After all, among the assembled rankers she had the most experience with structures like this.
Russia had built its climbing culture around them.
Sasha rested one hand lightly on the railing of a broken stone pillar before speaking.
"You keep calling this a ruin."
Her voice carried easily across the group.
"But ruins are only the surface."
She gestured downward.
"What you’re looking at is something else."
Several rankers exchanged glances.
Then she said the words that made the entire group pause.
"This is an abyss."
The wind moved across the crater again.
Sasha continued calmly.
"The reason the tower is called the Abyssal Tower isn’t because of its height."
She pointed downward again.
"It’s because of these."
No one spoke.
So she explained.
"Ruins are not ruins."
"They are sinkholes."
A ripple of confusion moved through the coalition team.
"Sinkholes?" one of the Blue Dragon rankers repeated.
Sasha nodded slightly.
"Yes."
Her voice remained calm, almost academic.
"They are what we call reverse dungeons."
Now the murmurs grew louder.
"Reverse...?"
A Silver Chevalier member frowned.
"What does that even mean?"
Sasha finally turned to face the rest of the expedition.
"A normal dungeon pushes upward."
She gestured toward the open plain around them.
"You enter through a gate, clear monsters, defeat the boss, and climb higher."
Her finger pointed back toward the abyss.
"But sinkholes are the opposite."
Her eyes darkened slightly.
"They descend."
Silence spread through the expedition.
"You don’t climb them."
"You fall into them."
She took a step closer to the edge.
"This abyss has floors."
Her gaze followed the circular terraces spiraling downward.
"But instead of going up... they go down."
The implications of her words settled slowly over the group.
One of the Iron Aegis rankers frowned.
"How many floors?"
Sasha shrugged lightly.
"That depends on the abyss."
Then she added something that made the tension rise even further.
"The deepest one ever recorded on Earth had six floors descending downward."
Several players looked surprised.
"Six?"
Sasha nodded.
"It was discovered in Russia."
Her tone carried quiet pride.
"Floor thirty-nine of the tower."
Even the Korean rankers reacted to that.
Floor thirty-nine was currently the highest confirmed floor humanity had reached.
If the deepest known abyss existed there...
That meant something unsettling.
The tower’s most dangerous locations weren’t necessarily higher.
They were deeper.
The wind rising from the abyss grew colder.
Sasha continued explaining.
"Sinkholes are categorized into three levels."
She raised three fingers.
"The first level is the most common."
Her voice remained steady.
"We call them Grave Depths."
Some players wrote the term down immediately on their tablets.
"These are dangerous but manageable."
"Humanity can handle the bosses in these abysses with proper preparation."
She lowered one finger.
"The second category..."
Her green eyes hardened slightly.
"...is called Catastrophe Depths."
A few Russian players standing behind her nodded in agreement.
"These abysses contain bosses capable of destroying entire expedition forces."
She lowered another finger.
"Cities have fallen to creatures from Catastrophe Depths."
The murmurs grew louder.
Then she lifted her final finger.
"And the last category."
Her voice dropped slightly.
"Is called Hell Difficulty."
Even the name itself felt heavy in the air.
"These are abysses where the boss alone is powerful enough to threaten entire nations."
The silence that followed was suffocating.
Someone finally spoke.
"You’re saying..."
The White Stars ranker hesitated.
"...that this ruin might be one of those?"
Sasha looked back down into the darkness.
"I’m saying we don’t know yet."
She crossed her arms.
"But if Blue Dragon’s elite team was wiped out..."
Her eyes narrowed.
"...then this is not a Grave Depth."
The statement sent a ripple through the entire expedition.
One of the EU rankers cursed under his breath.
"That changes things."
"Yes," Sasha replied simply.
"It does."
But she wasn’t finished.
"There’s something else you should understand."
Everyone looked at her again.
"Sinkholes do not contain waves of monsters."
That statement confused several players.
"What?"
"No monsters?"
Sasha shook her head.
"There are no minions."
"No endless dungeon waves."
Her gaze moved slowly across the group.
"Only bosses."
That sounded almost reassuring for a brief moment.
Until she finished the sentence.
"But bosses do not fight alone."
Now the tension returned immediately.
"They command generals."
Her words carried weight.
"Creatures nearly as strong as the boss itself."
The silence that followed was broken only by the wind rising from the abyss.
Thirty-three rankers stood around the massive sinkhole processing the information.
Some of them looked excited.
Others looked deeply concerned.
A Siberian Fist warrior laughed suddenly.
"That’s perfect."
His massive frame shifted as he stepped closer to the edge.
"No weak trash mobs."
"Only real enemies."
Several of his fellow Russians nodded.
Their culture of climbing thrived on challenges like this.
But the Korean rankers weren’t nearly as enthusiastic.
One of the Blue Dragon members spoke quietly.
"So we might be facing multiple high-tier bosses."
"Yes," Sasha replied.
"And they will be waiting below."
Another White Stars strategist frowned.
"This information should have been shared during the coalition meeting."
Sasha shrugged.
"No one asked."
The statement caused several irritated looks.
But none of them could deny the truth.
Most countries avoided ruins whenever possible.
They weren’t mandatory objectives.
Players could simply clear the main floor mission and continue climbing.
Only Russia regularly explored them.
Because the rewards were unmatched.
Lost fables.
Constellation artifacts.
Powers that could reshape entire narratives.
And because of that...
Russian players had become the strongest in the world.
Now the coalition team stood at the edge of one such abyss.
And the stakes had suddenly become much clearer.
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Far away from the tower itself...
Millions of people were watching.
The official expedition stream broadcast the moment Sasha finished speaking.
The reaction online was immediate.
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[ONLINE COMMUNITY: REDZONE – EXPEDITION LIVE THREAD]
[User: TowerNews_Official]
WAIT WAIT WAIT.
Did Sasha Kim just say ruins are sinkholes with multiple floors going downward???
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[User: BuffTheTanks]
WHAT DO YOU MEAN DOWNWARD FLOORS???
THIS WASN’T IN THE BRIEFING.
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[User: KimchiWarrior88]
Holy shit.
If that’s true this expedition is way more dangerous than people thought.
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[User: VodkaViking]
Of course it is.
Russia has been clearing sinkholes for years.
You people just didn’t pay attention.
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[User: USA_First_Climber]
Nah nah nah.
This sounds like propaganda.
You’re telling me bosses come with generals??
That’s basically a raid dungeon.
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[User: Realist_Climber]
No.
It’s worse.
Because there are no trash mobs.
Which means every fight is a boss-tier encounter.
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More viewers flooded the thread as clips from the livestream spread across social media.
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[3LIXIR TRENDING – #ABYSSAL_TOWER]
@Pro_Analyst_SU:
This changes EVERYTHING.
If Floor 11 ruins are actually a multi-layer abyss, the coalition is walking into a vertical raid structure.
Worst case scenario: multiple bosses across descending floors.
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@DailyTowerBites:
RUSSIAN META CONFIRMED.
Sasha Kim just revealed sinkhole mechanics live on stream.
Why has no Korean guild explained this before?
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@Hunter_Stan:
BRO.
HELL DIFFICULTY???
She literally said some abysses can destroy entire nations.
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@TheoryCrafter88:
WAIT.
If the deepest known abyss is on Floor 39...
Does that mean the tower gets MORE dangerous the higher you go???
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The livestream numbers climbed rapidly.
Millions of viewers now watched the coalition team standing at the edge of the abyss.
Even professional analysts struggled to keep up with the sudden flood of new information.
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[BNET GLOBAL PLAYER FORUM]
[Thread: SINKHOLES CONFIRMED – WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR HUMANITY?]
[User: Euro_Snob]
So the tower isn’t just vertical.
It’s also downward.
That’s terrifying.
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[User: Seoul_Survivor]
My cousin died in the first breach.
And now we’re learning there were probably multiple bosses???
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[User: Tech_Nerd]
Think about the implications.
If bosses have generals...
That means coordinated enemy leadership.
Not just monsters.
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[User: Freedom_Fighter_USA]
I’m more worried about the porters now.
If they have to descend multiple floors carrying stabilizers...
Those guys are screwed.
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The comments kept coming.
Fear.
Excitement.
Speculation.
All of it building into a single overwhelming realization spreading across the global player community.
The tower was far more dangerous than anyone had truly understood.
And now...
Thirty-three rankers and nine porters were about to descend into the abyss to prove it.
