No streams of light flowed from the pitch-black tip of the staff. It was as still as an utterly ordinary poker that had been stuck in a furnace for ages.
Yet Evelina could clearly sense power surging within it!
"Strange... Did the staff's corruption make it slower to respond?"
Evelina shook the staff and focused her thoughts once more.
An inexplicable power still churned within the staff's core, but it showed no intention of being unleashed.
Was she drawing upon the wrong elemental power?
Or was the current environment simply unsuitable for casting light-element spells?
"Dark energy will do too! Turn into blades for me!!"
Evelina swung her staff and cried out sharply.
There was still no response.
However, her shout drew Sargeras's attention from nearby, prompting a series of derisive laughs.
"A succubus skilled in mental manipulation and hand-to-hand combat actually uses a weapon like a staff?"
"Evelina, you really are a rare specimen!"
"Who the hell are you two!?"
Hearing this, Evelina panicked and grew even more flustered.
Meanwhile, Lu Li secretly exerted force, pushing the restrained tip of his halberd further toward Sargeras's chest.
His scattered mental power condensed into invisible tendrils, swiftly transmitting a message to Evelina.
"As long as you can launch an attack, and it doesn't hit me, anything goes!"
"Don't worry about hurting me!"
Evelina panicked even more.
This was no longer a matter of whether her attack could hit accurately.
It was a matter of whether she could launch an attack at all!
"Whatever it is, as long as I can activate it!"
Evelina screamed inwardly and swung the staff with all her strength, heedless of anything else.
Perhaps the shift in mindset worked.
The previously unresponsive staff tip suddenly erupted with dazzling black light, causing both Sargeras and Lu Li in