The faint grey aura surrounding Elaine turned black as she converted the life energy from her life well through her heart and into death energy that flowed through her arms and into her staff.
She swung it down onto her target's injured shoulder with an impact that generated a shockwave that shattered the remaining windows nearby.
Seconds after the death energy poured into the wound, the flesh of their arm began to rot and blacken, decaying until it resembled the limb of a corpse long buried.
They screamed in agony at the pain wrought upon them, but Elaine cut it off with a thrust of her staff's butt into their forehead, sending them crashing backwards and unconscious.
The moment her strike knocked them out, all the other attackers around the area suddenly froze mid-action. Those scaling walls, breaking through windows, or fighting civilians all collapsed at once as if invisible strings holding them upright had been severed.
"Huh?"
