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Deeper: Limitless Book Two
Will Cole survived Floor One. Now the Tower gets serious.
A hundred and forty-seven days in, Will's compression cultivation makes him a predator on the early floors — low stats, devastating output, hunting from the shadows while others draw the danger. But the deeper he climbs, the more the Tower changes.
The creatures evolve. Level Sevens with ventral gaps that require surgical precision to exploit. Deeplings that hunt by vibration. Egg chambers hidden in organic architecture that shouldn't exist — as if the Tower itself is alive, and something built it.
Will finds the deep corridors where the rules bend, where vital force behaves differently, where breakthroughs don't come with lightning — they come with violence that tears his channels apart from the inside. Other climbers are down here too. Some are allies. Most aren't. And the death matches the Tower runs aren't optional.
Then the signal comes from Floor Sixty-Two. Something is wrong. Climbers are dying on floors they should have cleared. The Tower's own frequencies are shifting. And Will is the only one climbing fast enough to reach whatever's causing the collapse before it reaches him.
More compression. More agony. More breakthroughs that should kill him. Will's stats have never been lower. His hits have never been harder.
The deeper he goes, the darker it gets.
Deeper is the second book in the Limitless series — a brutal solo-climber LitRPG featuring anatomically detailed combat, a deep compression cultivation system, and a protagonist who lets his fists do the talking.
For fans Dungeon Crawler Carl, Cradle, and Defiance of the Fall
Graphic violence. No romance. No party. No pets. Just one man going deeper.
A hundred and forty-seven days in, Will's compression cultivation makes him a predator on the early floors — low stats, devastating output, hunting from the shadows while others draw the danger. But the deeper he climbs, the more the Tower changes.
The creatures evolve. Level Sevens with ventral gaps that require surgical precision to exploit. Deeplings that hunt by vibration. Egg chambers hidden in organic architecture that shouldn't exist — as if the Tower itself is alive, and something built it.
Will finds the deep corridors where the rules bend, where vital force behaves differently, where breakthroughs don't come with lightning — they come with violence that tears his channels apart from the inside. Other climbers are down here too. Some are allies. Most aren't. And the death matches the Tower runs aren't optional.
Then the signal comes from Floor Sixty-Two. Something is wrong. Climbers are dying on floors they should have cleared. The Tower's own frequencies are shifting. And Will is the only one climbing fast enough to reach whatever's causing the collapse before it reaches him.
More compression. More agony. More breakthroughs that should kill him. Will's stats have never been lower. His hits have never been harder.
The deeper he goes, the darker it gets.
Deeper is the second book in the Limitless series — a brutal solo-climber LitRPG featuring anatomically detailed combat, a deep compression cultivation system, and a protagonist who lets his fists do the talking.
For fans Dungeon Crawler Carl, Cradle, and Defiance of the Fall
Graphic violence. No romance. No party. No pets. Just one man going deeper.
1399 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 13, 2026
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October 3, 2026
2.5 rounded up. This was frustrating. We spent so long slogging through the first couple floors of the tower and then suddenly it's like a speed run for some reason. Wills decision making is incredibly frustrating to continually see him make illogical choices and the structure (or lack thereof) of the plot was boggling. Logistical management of supplies is nonsensical. All that and the Will ends up side questing so hard to play god in his personal sim management of the tower..? Idk. What happened to the whole bit about Colm? His mother's identity?? Then there's the lack of meaningful personal relationships that he has/doesn't have. It makes any interactions with any side character feel like a plot device vs something impactful. And gosh the author loves to reuse names. Random dead characters get names that are somewhat unique but then speaking ones sometimes have reused names? Very confusing. These books really need heavy editing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 4, 2026
DNF at 87%
The MC stays annoying, constantly ignoring water, food supplies, better weapons, clothes and shoes while constantly rumbling on about ancient symbols on the walls in the first half of the book. His constantly getting hurt reminded me of McCain in Die Hard but unfortunately not in a good way as a lot of the injuries could have been prevented by using weapons with better reach - which he always ignored.
Once again, the power levels stay obscure as he finds weaklings in places that they absolutely should have been unable reach while way stronger people died or stuck at lower levels.. Once again, he studies diligently the work of serial killers who he never kills. Once again, (in the first half of the book) the MC'S tactics stay bad and he fights worse than he should according to the plot.
The excessive and repetitive documentation of every fight gets really tiresome after a while. On the plus side, the author stopped reporting every voided bowel and the stats of everyone the MC meets.
The book is very badly structured. The plot about level 2 lasted half of the book, which was way too long, especially the last 20% were truly aggravating. In comparison the levels 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7 and 8 only lasted another 30 % of the book together!
I didn't really care about the last part of the book.
The plot left me with a lot of questions:
I didn't understand why the MC who acts like Ghandi against serial killers would insist on upholding other people's vendettas all of a sudden.
I didn't understand why the weaklings of the syndicate would reach level 3 while stronger climbers from level could not and how these crees could do such damage in such a short time.
I also don't understand why the weaklings would not descend back to level 1 to become stronger, as the plot establishes that the gates can be used both ways..
Criticism and comments
It's hilarious that the MC'S clothes and gear somehow got acid resistant.
Level 3 and 4 are too tough and unfair,. Realistically, nobody would pass these levels..
"Will emptied the water pouches onto the dead bark. Destroyed the medical supplies" Pure genius after constantly struggling with water supplies and festering wounds AND learning that the next level has no water..
His destruction of perfectly fine spears while he always struggles with range made me cringe - again.
"The water skin he emptied." Moronic, before entering a waterless level..
"Pulled on his spare shirt" The shirt appeared just as mysteriously as his new backpack and the salve..
The part about the ancients using English was moronic and contradicts the plot.
The author really loves the name Doss..This was number 4..
The book keeps repeating not to go past 30 when nobody even reached level 10..
Despite all the MC's achievements and him becoming the first human apex, he still is inferior to the skills his father showed at the start of book 1 - especially outside of the tower!
The MC stays annoying, constantly ignoring water, food supplies, better weapons, clothes and shoes while constantly rumbling on about ancient symbols on the walls in the first half of the book. His constantly getting hurt reminded me of McCain in Die Hard but unfortunately not in a good way as a lot of the injuries could have been prevented by using weapons with better reach - which he always ignored.
Once again, the power levels stay obscure as he finds weaklings in places that they absolutely should have been unable reach while way stronger people died or stuck at lower levels.. Once again, he studies diligently the work of serial killers who he never kills. Once again, (in the first half of the book) the MC'S tactics stay bad and he fights worse than he should according to the plot.
The excessive and repetitive documentation of every fight gets really tiresome after a while. On the plus side, the author stopped reporting every voided bowel and the stats of everyone the MC meets.
The book is very badly structured. The plot about level 2 lasted half of the book, which was way too long, especially the last 20% were truly aggravating. In comparison the levels 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7 and 8 only lasted another 30 % of the book together!
I didn't really care about the last part of the book.
The plot left me with a lot of questions:
I didn't understand why the MC who acts like Ghandi against serial killers would insist on upholding other people's vendettas all of a sudden.
I didn't understand why the weaklings of the syndicate would reach level 3 while stronger climbers from level could not and how these crees could do such damage in such a short time.
I also don't understand why the weaklings would not descend back to level 1 to become stronger, as the plot establishes that the gates can be used both ways..
Criticism and comments
It's hilarious that the MC'S clothes and gear somehow got acid resistant.
Level 3 and 4 are too tough and unfair,. Realistically, nobody would pass these levels..
"Will emptied the water pouches onto the dead bark. Destroyed the medical supplies" Pure genius after constantly struggling with water supplies and festering wounds AND learning that the next level has no water..
His destruction of perfectly fine spears while he always struggles with range made me cringe - again.
"The water skin he emptied." Moronic, before entering a waterless level..
"Pulled on his spare shirt" The shirt appeared just as mysteriously as his new backpack and the salve..
The part about the ancients using English was moronic and contradicts the plot.
The author really loves the name Doss..This was number 4..
The book keeps repeating not to go past 30 when nobody even reached level 10..
Despite all the MC's achievements and him becoming the first human apex, he still is inferior to the skills his father showed at the start of book 1 - especially outside of the tower!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 16, 2026
Good story but...
TOO MUCH FILLER. How many times can you repeat an action that already took place? If you eliminate the filler, this book would be half as long and much more enjoyable to read.
TOO MUCH FILLER. How many times can you repeat an action that already took place? If you eliminate the filler, this book would be half as long and much more enjoyable to read.
June 18, 2026
Continuous Progression
A good simple read. Good progression through each book. Seems to skip a little area where it seems something is at one stage and then backtrack later at another stage. Worth a read though.
A good simple read. Good progression through each book. Seems to skip a little area where it seems something is at one stage and then backtrack later at another stage. Worth a read though.
July 27, 2026
Same thing
Way too many descriptions of the same thing over and over. The main character is one word that's it . He has no other thoughts just kill and kill a robot. There is no emotion in anything he does at all
Way too many descriptions of the same thing over and over. The main character is one word that's it . He has no other thoughts just kill and kill a robot. There is no emotion in anything he does at all
June 25, 2026
Disappointed
Starts well then jumps around. Lost track of the story and interest. Really struggled to finish. I will not continue with this series.
Starts well then jumps around. Lost track of the story and interest. Really struggled to finish. I will not continue with this series.
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