Lazarus was sent flying from the explosion, which wiped out the manor, leaving nothing behind.
Lazarus landed on the ice mountain left over from Lason's fight against Mammon earlier as he used the two swords to help himself from being pushed back any further.
He stared at the smoke cloud that obscured his view of Mammon's body, but he did not have to wait much longer as a massive wave of gold and black energy erupted.
It wrapped itself into a ball and began to shrink as if all the power was being compressed into a smaller frame.
Lazarus didn't wait to let Mammon complete whatever he was going to do as he sent red light blades in Mammon's direction.
As they were getting close, the gold surrounding them moved faster than Lazarus attack and blocked the blades from piercing the dome.
He immediately jumped into the air to avoid golden tendrils that were about to stab him, leaving web-like cracks in the ice where they embedded themselves.
"Fuck! Why does it feel like I'm breathing through a filter?"
'Well, that's because Mammon is releasing all the miasma from the mountain." Dakarai answered back.
I was able to detect a faint amount of it when we arrived here, but it was too weak to affect us in an instant. So Mammon was containing it inside something and only released small amounts of it.
And this was even more present as massive waves of gold and black miasma went to Mammon's dome. This increased the amount of power being placed inside it.
Lazarus heard Dakarai and immediately knew what he had to do.
He manifested his halo and let out his wings from his back. Which relased massived about of divine power from his body and his hair was died in crimson and his eyes were swallowed by darkness as black crack-like veins appeared under his eyes.
He waved his arm and blades of red light appeared in front of him, and he sent them towards the dome.
But the gold that surrounded Mammon blocked the attacks, as it took the shape 4 massive golden arms with black, crack-like energy cracks, with green eyeballs embedded into the palms.
They seemed to absorb the divine energy from the light constructs, which weakened their impact.
The dome collapsed, and Lazarus stared at the being who came out of it.
It appeared humanoid, coalesced from muddy yellow energy. His figure was muscular yet compacted into a tighter frame.
He radiated a vicious, glowing aura with swirling particles of amber and ochre energy.
Two large, curved horns erupted from the sides of his head, spiraling outwards in a moss texture. Above them, a wavy cascade of emerald-green energy mimicked hair, undiluted with ethereal motion.
His face bore no mouth or nose, just 2 bright and haunting yellow eyes that burned with malevolent intensity. Intricate black markings were etched into his chest and arms.
He was covered only by an ornate ceremonial skirt that went all the way to the floor.
He stared at Lazarus, whose eyes were glued to the demon's new form.
Mammon did move, but the golden arms opened their palms at Lazarus. Each eye shot out beams of green energy that tore through the air.
Lazarus maneuvered his body to dodge the beams, barely grazing his body, but Mammon wasn't finished as Lazarus turned back in his direction, but he saw that the demon was gone.
"Where are you looking?"
He heard a voice say before he was sent crashing into the mountain. The crash blew away multiple trees from their roots.
Mammon's extra arms acted, as if responding to his will and shot beams of black and gold miasma at Lazarus.
Lazarus sank into the shadows and avoided the blasts. This created massive explosions, shaking the mountain.
Lazarus popped out on the other side, trying to regain his bearings as his head was rattled by Mammon's strike.
He touched his head and felt a warm, wet sensation as he touched his blood. Noticing his wound was healing far slower.
But he didn't have time to think as Mammon rushed towards him like a rocket. Gaining speed as he whined his 3 fists back, charging them with miasma.
Lazarus immediately surged with divine energy and used his blood to boost his physical stats even further.
He jumped into the air and clashed, their opposite energy colliding with each other.
They stared at each other as waves of their powers canceled each other out.
Mammon noticed this immediately and used his other arms to attack as he used one of them to palm Lazarus's face and blast him away.
Lazarus was sent flying and crashed into the medium-sized obsidian left by Lason.
Lazarus barely tanked the attack as he used his blood to reinforce his body; his head would have been vaporized from his shoulders.
His vision was blurred, but he didn't need it as he sensed an attack coming from behind.
He ducked and performed an upward back kick, but Mammon blocked it with the golden arms. He used his free hands to grab Lazarus's foot and spun him like a helicopter blade.
Disorienting him further, he launched Laz into the air and began to chant something under his breath.
Lazarus didn't know what happened as the next moment he saw Mammon appear above him, and despite now having a mouth, Lazarus could tell he was smiling.
"Please don't die yet; I don't get to pull this out unless the person I'm fighting is really special!" He said gleefully and conjured a golden energy ball in one of his hands and blasted a hole through Lazarus chest.
Causing him to crash into the land again, creating a massive explosion and leaving a massive crater.
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Lazarus was laid on his back inside the massive crater
He could barely take a breath, as the hole where his heart was supposed to be left him barely able to move.
Whenever a vampire's heart his destroyed or ripped from their body, it doesn't kill them but leaves them in extreme, agonizing pain. Pretty much leaving them incapacitated until they regenerate a new one or place the old one back in.
Lazarus heart grew at a slow speed, so he began to use his white flames to purify the miasma that's been seeping into his body from both the atmosphere and Mammon's attacks
He didn't get the chance to rest, as Mammon came crashing downward. His foot was aimed at his head.
"For fuck sake."