When the shuttle arrived at Vadiel, the guards disembarked first and formed two lines, while Almec, followed by Darth Maul in traditional Mandalorian armor, walked out of the shuttle.
Omen and Murto had been waiting at Starport Three, and under Kort's command, they had surrounded the area with guards, even deploying wraith fighters to wait invisibly overhead, just to see how they would attempt to seize power.
He himself had been hiding among the welcoming crowd as a precaution. Maul sensed the emotions of the crowd, but he felt a very wrong sentiment; these people seemed to harbor animosity towards them. If he concentrated, he could even sense a person with immense Force power mixed in.
"Oh, a hidden Jedi?" Maul's face beneath his helmet broke into a smile. He had always wanted to kill Jedi, and he hadn't expected such a bonus reward this time.
Murto and Omen took Almec aboard a landspeeder and began heading towards the town, but Almec pulled out a blaster pistol and pointed it directly at Omen's back. "Tell your men to go somewhere else."
"You!" Omen was greatly alarmed. Although he knew Almec would expose himself, he didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
"Hurry!" Almec pushed the gun forward slightly, speaking in a low, fierce voice.
"Everyone, go check the armory first," Omen opened his comms and issued the order to the others.
Hearing this command, the others understood what was happening. After all, for them, Almec's matter was like being stripped naked and watched by everyone.
Almec nodded to Darth Maul beside him.
He immediately drew his lightsaber, and Almec fired a shot, but it didn't penetrate Omen's armor. The production of beskar steel on Vadiel had long been sufficient to provide everyone with beskar armor, and Omen was currently wearing it. Almec was startled, "It's beskar steel!"
Hearing the gunshot, the surrounding guards also began attacking the soldiers next to them, but what they hadn't expected was that everything had already been foreseen. Seeing this, Darth Maul's lightsaber directly struck Omen, who was beside him, but unfortunately, it also failed to cut through.
Omen seized the opportunity to jump off the landspeeder, and the others also flew directly from the landspeeders, immediately blasting the engines of all the landspeeders.
In just a few seconds, the driverless landspeeders collided with each other, turning the already explosive landspeeders into twisted metal frames.
"Damn it! They knew our plan all along! Gunray betrayed us!" Almec shouted, but Maul kicked him off the landspeeder.
A few quick-reacting guards from the other landspeeders jumped down, but Omen and his men, who were in the air, killed them all, leaving only Maul and Almec.
The wraith fighters ceased their stealth and began attacking the ground.
Maul completely disregarded the lives of others, forcefully dragging down an unlucky Mandalorian. His lightsaber passed directly through the Mandalorian's head, who then fell lifelessly.
"Fire!" Omen retreated and fired, realizing this was Almec's trump card, a Force user.
Maul directly pulled down all the Mandalorians firing from the sky, slamming them hard onto the ground.
His spinning lightsaber casually took the life of a Mandalorian. Seeing this, Omen drew the vibro-knife from his side, intending to confront Maul head-on.
Watching Omen charge forward, Maul smiled. "A very courageous rat, but useless." He immediately used The Force to choke Omen.
At this moment, Kort, riding a speeder bike, quickly arrived at the scene. Seeing Maul's actions, he was filled with rage, pulled out his dark saber, and charged forward.
First, he thrust his saber towards Maul's heart, forcing Maul to abandon his attack on Omen and instead block Kort's attack.
"Oh, it's the same sword style as mine," Maul instantly blocked and counterattacked.
"I don't need to hold back against you!" Kort used all his strength to suppress Maul.
Maul was startled; this guy was a monster. He was even more strained than when he faced Lord Sidious. He was trying to kill him, holding nothing back, but this was exactly the feeling he wanted!
Maul also employed everything he had learned from various sources, surprisingly fighting Kort to a standstill. Kort no longer concealed himself, his eyes glowing with an uncharacteristic pupil color, faintly emitting a purple light.
"If it weren't for this situation, perhaps you could have joined the Dark Side, but it's impossible now!" Maul laughed loudly.
But gradually, the dark saber wildly suppressed Maul, pinning him down completely, no longer enjoying the even match from before.
"Darth Maul, if I kill you now, many things in the future will change!" Kort kicked Maul away, sheathed his dark saber, and released powerful energy from both hands.
A storm descended out of thin air over Vadiel, and even everyone in the entire town could see this sudden storm.
Anakin and Zeta, who were in class, were startled. Someone was using The Force to alter nature!
"Is this Big Brother Kort's power!" Anakin exclaimed.
"Is this his true form?" Zeta hadn't expected the usually cheerful Kort to unleash such power. Could she also achieve this level?
At this moment, Maul, like Obi-Wan back then, was helpless against it, but Maul still charged forward with his lightsaber to attack Kort.
"Monster! Die!" Maul leaped high, his red lightsaber attacking Kort's head.
But he was directly blasted away by the energy released by Kort, and the Force Storm completed its charge, engulfing Maul and instantly rendering him unconscious.
Even his lower body was destroyed by the Force Storm. The storm nearly annihilated Maul, but Maul's will was so strong it was almost unkillable.
"Mandalorians!" Maul screamed resentfully. At this moment, Maul's Dark Side power rapidly surged; he couldn't even feel pain.
But two minutes later, after no longer sensing Maul's Force presence, Kort stopped his attack, even pulling out a blaster to deliver a finishing shot, fearing he might revive again. He also took Maul's lightsaber.
After doing all this, Kort began to use The Force to heal the Mandalorians who had been affected, and to treat everyone. Omen also slowly woke up.
"I knew you could do it, boss!" Omen said, shaking his head.
"If it had been sooner, maybe not so many people would have died," Kort shook his head, then picked up all the slain Mandalorians, calling for a medical transport to take them back for proper burial.
As for Almec, he was already on the verge of death from the Force Storm's attack, but Kort saved him. He couldn't die so easily; he had to die in front of the entire nation!
As for Maul, let him be buried in this wilderness, it suits his temperament.
After everyone left, the cloaked Sith infiltrator, with the C-3PX modified by Maul, descended. It placed Maul into the life support System on board the ship.
It also reported the matter to Sidious. Sidious, upon hearing this, realized Kort's abilities were even stronger than he had imagined. If he could turn him to the Dark Side, then these useless apprentices would not be needed.
However, for now, he still needed this useless Maul. At least, as a pawn to attract Kort, he should be very useful.
"Take him back to Coruscant. Someone will treat him, after all, his life belongs to the Sith."
And all this went completely unnoticed; Kort never expected anyone to come and rescue Maul.
Hearing Sidious's command, C-3PX complied and immediately left Vadiel.
A day later, Gunray heard these reports and was greatly alarmed, while Korian Vos laughed heartily, mocking Maul as a useless being.
(Perhaps everyone is wondering why I didn't kill Maul directly now. The main reason is that I want Maul's death to be less simple. He was essentially a person blinded by the Sith for half his life, but he realized everything in Obi-Wan's arms at the very end, but it was already too late. So I want to give Maul a tragic ending, to let him not die in Old Ben's arms. So I apologize to everyone, this might be a bit of a spoiler, I am truly sorr
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