The cavern was deathly silent.
Dust and mist hung in the air, lingering like the ghost of a titan's fall. The Crystalgloom Serpent's final breath had scattered into silence, its once-mighty form reduced to fragments of shattered crystal. Jagged shards lay strewn across the cavern floor, their fractured surfaces catching the faintest flickers of light from the remnants of its broken core. The glow was weak, pulsing intermittently like the heartbeat of a dying star.
