Elreth kicked a possessed badger away, her eyes wide. "Fire into ice? It'll just make steam!"
"Exactly!" Nero shouted, a fierce grin cutting through his exhaustion. "Just do it!"
He stopped trying to hit individual ghosts. He started gathering every ounce of his remaining Lightning prana. He let it build inside him, a storm contained in flesh and bone. The air around him buzzed, his hair standing on end.
"NOW, KHIONE!"
Khione thrust both hands toward the main ghost and the cluster around it. "Absolute Zero: Binding!"
It wasn't an attack. It was a cage. A sphere of instantly-formed, super-dense, ultra-cold ice crystallized in the air, trapping the main ghost and a dozen of its minions inside a frozen prison. The ghosts shrieked, their movements slowing to a crawl within the sudden, profound cold.
"ELRETH, NOW! THE CENTER!"
