บท 395: Abridged...

Ancano steadily gets to his feet, a hand already channelling a healing spell to the side of his fractured skull. He felt like he'd just been kicked in the face by a giant, and felt like he was being glared at by a Daedric Prince when he looked over to the person responsible.

"You fucking cunt!" Michael growls as he marches over towards him, "Did you think I wouldn't hear about this stunt!? Did you think you could get away with it without consequences!?"

Ancano sends his best sneer at Michael, still healing his head, "No, I counted on it. You've just assaulted a member of the Thalmor and interfered in a sanctioned duel. I'm sure even a fool like you could understand what that means."

Michael continues walking towards him, "Yeah, it means I'm going to have to fuck up the Thalmor after I bury your body." he states, shocking Ancano as he grabs the mage's robes and lifts him off of the ground with one hand.

"Y-you wouldn't dare! You wouldn't push Skyrim and the Empire into another war just for this!?" Ancano frantically questions, while beginning to conjure spells... Only for his spells to peter out into nothing, the elf unable to conjure even the simplest cantrip.

"Michael! Let him go! You'll damn the College if you continue!" Faralda exclaims, though, doesn't approach the duo despite her words.

"W-what have you done to me!" Ancano exclaims as his magic fizzles every time he attempts to use it. He attempts to punch Michael, only for his limbs to be locked in place via Telekinesis.

Michael carries the elf over to where Megumin was being attended to, Collette using Restoration magic to heal her. "Apologise to her, or I'll tear you apart." he demands the elf.

Ancano grits his teeth, weighing his pride against his self-preservation... Despite all his talk about elf supremacy, he relents, glaring at Megumin while whispering, "I apologise!"

"Apprentice! That's enough! The apology should be enough! We'll leave matters be like this!" Savos says as he approaches the group with Saya, wishing to stop anything drastic from occurring.

Ancano shakes his head, regaining some confidence at the appearance of the Arch-Mage, "Leave matters be!? While he's still holding me like a slaughtered hen!? NEVER! The embassy will hear of this! The dominion won't suffer this slight!" he cackles, not noticing the sigh the Arch-Mage was letting out.

"Oh really? Then there's no point in letting you go then." Michael says, casting a Spatial Shatter at Ancano's arm, the spell tearing it completely from his body as the elf begins screaming in agony.

"MICHAEL! LET HIM GO! THE COLLEGE WILL NOT SUFFER FOR YOUR ANGER! Justified it may be! But there are ways to go about things that don't include slaughtering a dignitary in front of the entire College!" Savos shouts, using Michael's name to emphasize his point...

Michael shakes his head, "I've had enough of these stuck-up fucking elves traipsing around like they own the place! Skyrim is a free land! They have no right to claim importance here, even at the Empire's edict!" he states before turning to Ancano and preparing to Laguna Blade his face off...

*Thud!*

Michael abruptly flips upside down as his head collides with the floor, Ancano falling to the side in a pitiful lump. He looks up at Savos with a scowl.

"Just as the elves don't run Skyrim, you don't decide how things are done in MY College, Apprentice!" Tiffania and Illococoo come over and help Michael to his feet, standing beside him as he and the Arch-Mage lock eyes with one another.

"Are you really just gonna let this piece of shi-" Michael pauses as he looks over to where Ancano is... Or was. Finding the spot empty with a now fading light. "Where's he go!?"

"Looks like he teleported? Smashed a mirror and disappeared." one of the nearby Apprentices say.

...

"Now will you calm yourself? He is gone, but the trouble you've already caused the College is irreparable..." Savos says, palming his face as he goes over things in his min to decide what action to now take.

"You let him get away! For fuck sake! Are you really going to say he wouldn't deserve the death he was going to get!?"

Savos frowns, "That isn't the point! The point is-"

"Hey, is that him over there? He's running from-" an apprentice that was looking over the exit to the College starts but is interrupted...

"ExploooooOOoooosiioooonh!" Megumin shouts, slurring her words slightly as she does so.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

A huge explosion occurs, one rivalling the one that'd shaken Skyrim months ago... And that was played off as something only Savos was capable of casting...

Everyone runs over to see the damage, all of them gaping as the smoke begins to clear. the bridge leading to the College had all but vanished, and a part of the land that'd connected the College to Winterhold had all but disappeared, with everything remaining looking like scorched glassy stone.

"Hehahahaha! I win! I ammm the victooor!" Megumin maniacally laughs at the destruction she'd just caused as everyone gapes at her.

"W-what of the Thalmor?" Savos manages to get out, asking one of the Apprentices that'd been watching the whole thing...

"Er, well... I imagine he's been scattered from here to Solstheim..."

...

Savos turns and glares at both Michael and Megumin, "Both of you will leave! You are expelled from this College! I will not have you stay another moment!" he declares.

Michael lets out a sigh, knowing that this was going to happen as soon as he heard of Ancano's actions. "How are we going to leave with the bridge collapsed?" he shrugs while gesturing down at the destruction.

...

"I WILL MAKE A WAY!"