Thick streams of water began to seep out of the ground at Caedmon's feet until they formed a dozen globes of liquid that were large enough to completely encase an adult man. Floating above the group, the foremost sphere hardened into a hefty ball of ice that quickly flew through the air and crashed onto a part of the path that one of the oncoming attackers was about to pass by. Caedmon's spell was avoided with ease, at which point he froze the rest of the globes and launched them forward at the same time.
A hooded, middle-aged man suddenly blinked into existence a ways down the pathway, crushed beneath one of the icy spheres before the large projectile cracked and fell apart into several pieces. Seeing the blood that had spattered around the corpse, Anice almost fainted.
