Michael quickly notices the enemy reinforcements coming around the side of the force and steps out to obstruct them. The sight of Sorkas and Jernil forces a quiet chuckle from his chest, but he stifles it as he prepared to receive the army of conjured creatures.
Sorkas and Jernil quickly notice him and both shout "YOU AGAIN!?" simultaneously, clearly, they remembered Michael better than he did them.
"We won't lose to you again! And it ain't a duel this time!" Sorkas growls and starts throwing fireballs towards Michael. Jernil doesn't cast anything for now, instead, beginning to channel the Magicka required to form an Ice Spear spell.
Michael ignores all of this, however, effortlessly Blinking away from a Fireball and pointing a finger at Jernil. "Laguna Blade." he casts, but the duo seemed to be anticipating it, as two nearby Frost Atronachs literally throw themselves in front of Jernil before Michael had even cast the spell.
The bolt of lightning shoots towards Jernil and easily penetrates the two Atronachs, but their bodies appeared to be enough to alter the trajectory of the attack just enough to avoid Jernil. A couple nearby Atronach's fall over dead instead however, their bodies not disintegrating due to them being conjured with a ritual and Frost Salt.
Michael shakes his head at the Laguna Blade's failure and simply Blinks forwards, throwing down a Smokebomb which both silenced and blinds the two Nords. Both were taken so thoroughly off guard that they didn't even notice Michael sliding Derflinger into Jernil's chest. He isn't even able to let out a whimper due to his silenced state, causing him to simply fall backwards, dead.
Despite one of their summoner's death, only two Dremora disappear from the battlefield, leaving the rest still fighting. A couple tries to charge Michael, but he just Blinkstrikes behind Sorkas and beheads him, causing one other Dremora to disintegrate. There were two left, however, meaning their master was still around, probably inside the cave...
Elsewhere in the battlefield, Illococoo was finally getting the chance to use her Thu'um. She'd been accompanying Charlotte til now, and she hadn't left any creatures left for her to experiment on. Luckily, her attention had been drawn by the Atronachs that Michael had started fighting, leaving Illococoo alone among the other Apprentices.
"Oi! Loco, get back and let the men handle this!" Borvir shouts as he slams his axe into the head of yet another zombie.
"My name is Illococoo, not 'Loco!'" she states in exasperation. Most people in Skyrim hadn't been able to pronounce her name properly so receiving new nicknames had been a common occurrence... Not that she appreciated it, it was her Big Sis that'd given her that name, and she was proud to wear it.
"Whatever, just get back, lasses shouldn't be at the front of a fight anywa-"
"Hiiarrgh!" Yisra's voice echoes out as her conjured Daedric sword decapitates two zombies with a single slash. Borvir steps back from the fight for a moment and looks down at his axe, feeling pretty emasculated right about now...
She turns to face her next opponent but catches his gaze causing her to frown, "Stop gawking and start fighting you fool!"
"She's right, stop showing off and concentrate." his brother, Rundi says, pulling him back just in time to avoid a lunge from a zombie. It wouldn't have hit however, as Illococoo kicks the creature in the chest and sends it tumbling backwards as if it'd just been punted by a giant.
"Yeah! Let the 'men' handle this!" the dragon girl laughs as she casually smacks another corpse with a back-handed slap, causing its head to spin around as if it were a Disney character. "Wait, watch this!" she suddenly announces, taking a step back and sucking in a deep breath.
"Watch what-"
"FUS RO!" Illococoo shouts, her voice echoing not only through the battlefield, but probably over at Winterhold as well.
*BOOOM!*
Immediately after her shout, a shockwave explodes outwards, smashing into the undead army and instantly destroying ten of them, all while sending the rest stumbling backwards from the force.
"W-was that the Thu'um!?" Borvir exclaims, looking around to see if everyone else had just witnessed what he had. "Tell me I'm just seeing things!? Rundi!?"
"No, that just happened..." the eldest of the brothers mutters, the hand holding his axe trembling slightly, though, he couldn't tell if it was in fear or excitement...
"Illucuco! You can use the Thu'um!? What're you, the Dragonborn or something!?" Yisra jokingly asks, causing the dragon girl to let out a light, if strained laugh.
Again, using the Thu'um was taxing for her, and while she'd improved compared to the first time she'd used it. Using a two-word shout was still quite hard on her.
"Can you guys stop joking around and get back to fighting!? Or have you forgotten about the zombies in front of you!?" one of the Apprentices who'd been watching all of this shouts, causing the group to nod and get back to work.
Illococoo stepped back went to go help assist Charlotte, she wouldn't be able to use the Thu'um again for a while, maybe a couple days, so she'd play it safe for the rest of this.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By the time Charlotte arrives to assist Michael, most of the conjured creatures had already been slaughtered. All that was left were a couple Storm Atronachs that'd been sat at the back the entire time, and the remains of the other summoned creatures.
She waves her staff which throws many man-sized spears of ice to utterly decimate the Atronachs, leaving just her, Michael, and a bunch of zombies left in the area... That is, until a figure steps from the nearby cave with a look of utter fury on his face.
"YOU COLLEGE DOGS, YOU STEAL MY ARTIFACTS, KILL MY STUDENTS, AND FORCE ME TO THIS STATE!? I'LL TEAR OUT YOUR SOULS AND PUT THEM ON MY MANTLE!" Malyn screams, causing a few Apprentices to look at him in surprise, while a few had expected him to be responsible, many held too much respect for the master to make such dire assumptions... Fortunately for them, his attention was solely on Michael and Charlotte who'd just destroyed the forces he and his students had been building up.
Hope you bois liked the chap, if I missed anything please let me know. Thanks!
If you like my content or want to read ahead please go to : https://www.p.atreon.com/Nagross, I'd appreciate it.
Also, thanks to my patrons for their support :
ShinAmazake
Kingsprovince
JayJonnaJamison
Jack Allen
Faruk Ereng
Michael looks to Charlotte who'd already readied herself for combat, "You wanna go first? I know you've been a bit stressed lately..."
She just gives him a small nod and steps forwards, turning her staff in her hands as the wind around her picks up. All the while, Malyn was casting spells of his own... Some kind of armour spell judging by how his skin and the fabric of his clothes shimmer, a flame cloak, and a couple others that the duo had no idea about.
After all that, he summons a heavily armoured Dremora which immediately charges them, but that's not all... He throws his hands towards the other Apprentices that were cleaning up the remaining zombies... Two spells each explode into different coloured lights that envelope at least fifteen people.
Some immediately start running away from the battle, while others start attacking one another in a rage. The worst thing was the fact that the zombies hadn't yet all been dealt with, causing chaos to run through the College's side.
Malyn would've started laughing at this point, but Charlotte's own spell had finally finished...
"Ice Storm." she chants, using the magic of her homeworld. Winds billow out from where she was standing, uplifting the snow and ice from the ground in the area and throwing them high into the sky. Additional ice forms in the air, and after a moment, it all streams towards where Malyn was stood.
Like sentient shards of glass, they swarm towards him, first blowing past the Dremora and utterly ruining its unarmoured face, and then moving on to Malyn who'd hastily started preparing countermeasures.
The man was a low tier expert with Destruction magic, so he could tell a ward spell wouldn't block whatever spell Charlotte had just cast. While it might block the ice that she herself had created for the attack, the ice uplifted from the ground wouldn't be touched by a solely magical ward.
Thus, he decided to use his comparatively low skill with Alteration to try to combat it. A grey spell forms in his palm as he throws it to the ground in front of him,
*Shha-KANG!*
Jagged rocks raise themselves from the ground, forming a makeshift barrier in front of the Dunmer mage, just in time too as the storm of ice shards impact it. Just as the environmental ice wasn't affected by wards, it wasn't strengthened by magic either, leaving it as brittle as regular ice usually was.
*CrRrRrRrRrRrRRRR!*
It doesn't take long for all the ice in the spell to be used up, and while the wind was still turbulent, it wasn't a threat to Malyn any longer. The Dunmer knew then and steps out from behind his cover with new spells at the ready.
"Impressive! FOR AN AMATEUR!" he roars, ignoring the fact that he himself wasn't capable of such an elaborate spell.
Like an overpowered flamethrower, two streams of incredibly hot fire shoot from Malyn's palms directly at Charlotte, she swipes her staff to the side which raises two tall walls of ice and taps it on the ground afterwards to send one of them shooting at the mage.
In response, Malyn summons two larger than average Frost Atronachs to catch it, but Charlotte just turns the wall to water, causing it to bypass the Atronachs and splash against Malyn. Another tap of her staff later, the mage is frozen completely in a layer of ice.
"N-NO! GE-T OFF OF MEEEEE!" Malyn roars, unconsciously activating the Dunmer's racial ability Ancestors Wrath and causing fire to chaotically begin swirling around him, inadvertently destroying his own Atronachs in the process. "I'LL USE YOUR SCORCHED FLESH FOR MY NEXT UNDEAD, YOU SNIVELLING CRET-GHUIIK!" he starts but is silenced when an ice spear blows through his chest, leaving a hole the same size as Malyn's head where his heart should be...
"N-no... M-my ambi-tions!..." he chokes out before falling face-first onto the ground, he could barely move his body, but had just enough strength left to retrieve a black soul gem from his pouch, and cast soul trap on himself... Sealing his soul inside.
"Huh, nice job." Michael says, giving Charlotte a pat on her shoulder, "You made that look pretty easy..."
She shrugs, "Home mages are stronger...?" she states unsurely, questioning him and herself on whether or not that's true.
To be frank, while Skyrim's magic has more flexibility and potential, Halkeginia's magic is easier to learn and become proficient in.
While everything was in Charlotte's favour, from the weather, Malyn's state of mind, condition and magical reserves, and focus, she still should not have won so easily. Malyn had studied magic for hundreds of years, yet he'd been fairly easily bested.
Charlotte might be a genius, but clearly, there was a disparity with the magic each world used. Sure, Tamriel made up for it by having overall sturdier physiques and such, but it was still hard to wrap your head around.
Despite all of this though, Michael was sure that any legendary mage in Tamriel would destroy a legendary mage in Halkeginia. The scales were just too different, especially when you consider that Tamirel had actual gods to deal with, compared to the quiet being known as 'Brimir'.
"Maybe, we'll see if that's true once we master everything, right?" he replies while brushing some snow from his robes, "Oh, free soul gem." he jokes, taking the filled black soul gem from Malyn's corpse.
"Funny." she deadpans and goes to see how much damage was done by the beserk Apprentices. The others should have subdued them while she was fighting Malyn, but you couldn't trust strangers to be competent, only hope that they weren't completely stupid.
Hope you bois liked the chap, if I missed anything please let me know. Thanks!
Also, thanks to my patrons for their support :
ShinAmazake
Kingsprovince
JayJonnaJamison
Jack Allen
Faruk Ereng
bình luận đoạn văn
Tính năng bình luận đoạn văn hiện đã có trên Web! Di chuyển chuột qua bất kỳ đoạn nào và nhấp vào biểu tượng để thêm nhận xét của bạn.
Ngoài ra, bạn luôn có thể tắt / bật nó trong Cài đặt.
ĐÃ NHẬN ĐƯỢC