The strangulation went on for minutes, simply because Magus enjoyed the sheer pleasure of causing the former enforcer so much pain and anguish. Normally, this was enough to kill an average person, but the Emperor strangled him in such a way that he would live longer yet suffer more terribly.
Magus was putting everything he had mentally into this as compensation for having been put through the stress of catching him. He was surprised that, in decades, he had never been pushed to this point, ever.
These feelings of frustration and dissatisfaction felt new to him, as he had always been used to getting whatever he wanted at the snap of a finger. He was hardly the type to find a rival this easily.
