The impact of the metal tip striking the central glass pane echoed like a gunshot. Instantly, a bright white spiderweb of micro-fractures exploded outward from the point of impact, spreading rapidly across the surface right toward Sophia’s bare feet. Looking up through the translucent floor from the level below, the sight was horrifying. The delicate cracks branched out like lightning bolts, spider-webbing across the reinforced pane. Sophia gasped in absolute shock, freezing in place as the sharp cracking sounds continued to ring through the air. She looked down in sheer terror, her mouth agape as she watched the floor beneath her feet weaken by the second. One wrong step or sudden shift in weight could send the entire pane plummeting into the dark void beneath the atrium. The house maid, dressed in her crisp uniform, dropped to her knees in panic and began crawling across the fracturing glass surface toward the edge, desperate to reach solid ground before the structure buckled completely under their weight.