The Shattered Spire loomed ahead, its jagged silhouette piercing the fractured sky like a broken blade. The air grew colder with every step, the hum of the Abyssal Rift now a constant drone that clawed at Liam's mind, blending with the Echo's whispers. The ground beneath their boots turned to blackened stone, cracked and uneven, as if the earth itself had been scorched by the Void Incursion. Ruins of ancient structures—twisted metal and stone—jutted from the ground, their shapes warped by the rift's influence, a testament to the world that had been lost to the Apocalypse Waves.