Isaac slaps himself on his cheeks so that the fear he is feeling right now, doesn't throw off his focus, Damien immediately charges towards him, and lands a slashing strike with his sharpened fingernails, causing Isaac to disappear, he then chuckles to himself.
"that was easy."
but then Isaac reappears in front of him and says.
"it's going to take more than that, to beat me."
Damien growls.
"using cheap tricks is useless against me."
Isaac taunts.
"I guess we'll see about that."
he shouts.
"insolent human, I'll make you pay!"
Damien lands another strike, causing Isaac to disappear, and then reappear once again, he then
thinks to himself.
"he must chanting to himself, right before I strike to disappear."
Damien continues to strike him down, multiple times until he finally catches on, to Isaac's trick and he chants.
"Demon's Breath."
the black ball of flames, hurls towards a faint mana signature in the distance, and then Issac chants.
"mana shield."
the flame ball crashes against Isaac's mana shield, he shouts at Damien.
"wow, that is a very impressive attack, I felt the heat even with my shield protection me."
Damien annoyed by Isaac, shouts.
"searing whip."
he takes his whip that is shrouded in black smoke, and swings it at Isaac with full force, but with each strike that lands, Isaac disappears and reappears again, Damien thinks to himself feeling the frustration rise up.
"this damn coward, is just evading all of my attacks."
Isaac taunts Damien once again.
"I thought this ugly form you're in, would turn you into an actual threat, but I guess, I overestimated your power."
as Damien roars in anger, Isaac shouts.
"mana tornado!"
a huge white tornado, with light blue sparkles emerges from underneath Damien, until it completely swallows him whole, Isaac stares at the huge tornado he created, hoping that it causes him a lot of damage, but Isaac gets surprised when, Damien disperses his man tornado with ease, he then think to himself.
"damn it, that is my strongest attack, that won't kill the entity and Mauri."
Damien chuckles.
"a meaningless and weak attack, will not effect me."
he points his pointy fingers at Isaac.
"there aren't any humans strong enough to stop me."
he then uses a twisted version of Mauri's voice.
"not even you, Issac the greatest hero of our time."
bothered that Damien used Mauri's voice, he responds.
"you are a truly vile creature, for using her voice."
Damien likes the reaction he invoked in Isaac and laughs using Mauri's voice, Isaac shouts.
"mana clones!"
ten look alike clones surround Damien, but he doesn't get amused any of it and laughs at Isaac.
"ha, you should already know that, cheap tricks will do nothing to me."
as he attacks on of the clones, the other clones shout.
"mana extract!"
multiple white wavy lines attach themselves to Damien, causing his mana to drain at an alarming rate, Damien panics, and shouts.
"fiery realm!"
the light blue fog that filled the mana dimension, gets replaced, by red and orange flames, causing
the temperature rise at skin burning levels, Isaac
chants as the mana clones melt away.
"mana skin."
a thick layer of light blue mana, wraps around Isaac's to protect himself from the scorching heat, that has filled the mana dimension he transported them into.
he backs away from Damien and asks himself impressed with what he did.
"did he just change the mana dimension with one of his abilities?"
seeing how surprised Isaac looks for what just happened, Damien grins.
"since this dimension is filled with mana, like my home in hell, I decided to change it to accommodate me."
Isaac thinks to himself.
"I was right to bring this dangerous entity here, there is no telling how much damage he would cause in the outside world."
Damien laughs.
"everything you have done up to this point will be meaningless, since you can't stop me."
Isaac sighs to himself.
"if I fail to get the entity out of Mauri, then I need to fall back, on my last resort."
he then shouts at Damien.
"of you fail to leave out of Mauri's body, then things will not end very well for you."
Damien chuckles.
"just a bunch of empty threats."
Damien then swings his whip at Isaac, and for the first time since they started fighting, it makes contact, with Isaac's left arm, and he immediately felt something was wrong with his arm, when he couldn't feel it anymore, Isaac thinks to himself.
"my left arm is not responding to my attempts to move it."
Damien asks laughs maniacally.
"can't feel your arm Isaac?"
Isaac responds.
"what did you do to it?"
he continues laughing.
"this searing whip, turn the afflicted areas inside your body into mush."
Isaac thinks to himself.
"damn it, since he completely changed the mana dimension, I can't evade."
Damien takes another swing at Issac, but he responds with.
"mana shield."
he blocks the whip from hitting him again, and then shouts.
"mana bomb."
a dense blue ball drops down from above Damien, and it explodes upon making contact with him, the shockwave made the orange and red flames mix in the air around the light blue mushroom cloud, Isaac then think to himself.
"hopefully this attack will drain all the mana from that entity."
Damien steps out of the smoke of the mushroom cloud, unscathed, and shouts at Isaac.
"like I said human, your attacks will do nothing to me."
Damien then shouts.
"Demon's Breath!"
Isaac doesn't get a chance to react to the attack, as it slams into him, causing him to collapse on the ground, he stares blankly at the red, orange, light blue sky of the mana dimension, and he thinks to himself.
"yeah, this entity is too dangerous for the outside world, but, I can't kill Mauri."
he sighs and takes a deep breath.
"I've got no choice but to permanently seal us, in the ether dimension."
Damien approaches the injured Isaac and says.
"don't feel ashamed in this defeat Isaac, your journey has just begun, as I consume you, and have you increase my strength significantly."
Isaac chuckles.
"you never stood a chance against me, I was using magic powers, that would weaken you, so that I can save Mauri."
he responds smugly.
"and that was your downfall, trying to save someone, who can't be saved anymore."
Isaac replies.
"you might be right about that, but unfortunately for you, we are going to a place, where we will be stuck together for all eternity."
Damien laughs it off.
"you're delusional, if you think that will happen."
Isaac smiles and chants weakly.
"ether dimension."
both of them are quickly engulfed by, blackness and which ever direction they looked, the dark void is seen, Damien looks around confused on what just happened, he gets angry and asks.
"where are we?"
Isaac who is standing in front of Damien, no longer showing any signs of injury, Damien tries to strike down Isaac, but he notices that no damage was done to him, Damien tries chanting.
"demon's breath."
but nothing happens, Isaac walks around Damien calmly and says.
"you can't do nothing here, as of right now, both of us are stuck here forever, so make yourself comfortable."
Isaac sits down and closes his eyes, but Damien who has reverted back to Mauri's appearance, starts getting frantic, and tries attacking Isaac with his spells, but none activate, and everytime he tries attacking him with his fist, nothing happens, he then asks Isaac with a rage filled voice.
"I demand you to tell me what's going on?"
Isaac calmly answers.
"we are in the ether dimension, where mana, and physical bodies don't exist."
confused Damien asks.
"what does that mean?"
he answers.
"to put it simply, we are in a nothing dimension, where the concept of death doesn't exist."
Damien finally realizes that he and Isaac are in a place where you suffer a fate worst than death.
"who would have thought that a human was capable of accessing the ether dimension."
Isaac then says to Damien.
"here sit down and let's have a little chat, since we are now stuck here for all eternity."
Damien chuckles unable to feel the anger he had been feeling earlier.
"you, clever human."