As the slowed Glacial Venom Centipedes crawled toward them, Flurry darted toward one of the smallest centipedes, her wings beating against the sluggish air. Meanwhile, Dodo used [Dark Approach] to melt into a shadow, disappearing entirely from sight.
"Float!" Gilgamel muttered another chant, and his body rose smoothly into the air.
Hovering for a moment, he swept his gaze across the writhing swarm, then descended purposefully to land in their center.
The Book of Hundred Spells flipped its own pages in a flurry, stopping on a crimson-inked diagram. Gilgamel pressed his hand against the illustration and spoke clearly: "Ring of Fife!"
A fiery halo bloomed from Gilgamel's position, the [Ring of Fife] igniting the snow around him into a hiss of steam. The expanding wall of flame engulfed the nearest Glacial Venom Centipedes—long, segmented bodies writhing as the heat seared their icy flesh.
