The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2549 Tang Xiao VS Palpatine (Part )

2550. Tang Xiao VS Palpatine (Part )

"You are still not original, Darth Sidious." Darth Malthael smiled grimly, "It seems that you haven't made much progress."

He raised his hand and waved it, and Darth Sidious' lightning was attracted to the other side, and then the lightning continued to condense and compress, and finally showed a faint blood-red color. Then he pointed his finger, and this semi-finished blood-red lightning instantly struck Darth Sidious!

"You are too weak! Angel of Death! Is this all you have?" Darth Sidious pushed back, without any interception or pause, and directly pressed the lightning with his palm. At this moment, the lightning immediately struck Darth Malthael again with several times the strength of before!

Darth Malthael was not polite either. He did the same thing, catching the lightning, compressing and condensing it again, and reflecting it again!

The two men continued to strengthen and reflect the lightning, which increased the power of the lightning. The ordinary lightning gradually turned into a light red, then blood red, deep red, and purple red... Darth Malthael and Darth Sidious also retreated under the pressure of the lightning, and the distance between them continued to widen.

The lightning between the two of them continued to grow stronger and stronger, and finally formed a terrifying ball of lightning in the middle! The energy condensed in this ball of lightning had reached its extreme, and even the surrounding space was distorted! Darth Malthael and Darth Sidious could no longer bounce the lightning, so they tried their best to push the lightning towards each other.

The terrible force tore apart everything around them, and even the hall of the temple they were in began to gradually collapse. However, what was surprising was that the materials that constructed the temple only collapsed but did not disintegrate. Under the power of the lightning ball, none of the bricks were damaged!
The others had already started to flee when they saw such a horrific scene. The Judge and the priestess took the bodies of Sarris and Yun with them when they fled. Even the Hydra, which had almost completely mutated into a dark alchemical beast, picked up Fa-Zor, who was still breathing, like a wild beast protecting its food, and dragged him to another corner.

In the confrontation between Darth Sidious and Darth Malthael, two of the most powerful men in the galaxy, the power of the lightning ball continues to increase!

Finally, even they couldn't control it. The lightning ball suddenly shrank and then exploded!

BOOM BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The violent explosion spread instantly, and the terrible power instantly destroyed the temple structure! Countless bricks flew everywhere. Although the few people who were escaping had already run far in advance, the power of the explosion still almost affected them.

However, in the center of the explosion, the battle continues!

Darth Malthael and Darth Sidious were now flying in the air with the energy of the explosion. They raised their hands to trigger the power of the explosion, forming one destructive energy wave after another to attack each other! Countless energy waves made a sound like an explosion, and in each collision, the destructive force could even directly destroy a frigate!

But their fight never stopped. They kept mobilizing energy to attack continuously. The collision of countless energy fluctuations finally formed a terrible tornado in the entire explosion area!
They were on both sides of the tornado, constantly inducing tornadoes to attack each other! The temple structure and bricks that were swept into the tornado were also used as weapons by the two men, and were shot out like cannonballs under the continuous acceleration of the Force.

This terrible battle lasted for a full half hour, until all the explosive energy gradually dissipated. But their battle had not stopped. Darth Malthael fully unleashed the Death Force, and saw endless yellow sand spreading. This was a change that had occurred since he went to the Dark Lord Canyon on Korriban to awaken the Death Force.

His death force has always carried the characteristics of the desert on Korriban, presenting an endless amount of yellow sand. Among them, ordinary people will be immediately turned into unconscious death puppets if they touch even a grain of sand!
However, Darth Sidious's Force took on the form of a black hole. His Force could absorb everything and devour everything! The yellow sand filled with death would be immediately absorbed into the black hole and disappear without a trace.

"Hehehehe...the one with no new ideas is you! Angel of Death! Your power hasn't changed at all compared to last time!" Darth Sidious laughed strangely.

"It's enough to kill you!" Darth Malthael grinned.

"You know nothing about the horror of the Force!" Darth Sidious laughed inexplicably and opened his hands wide. Suddenly, the black hole formed by his dark side of the Force disappeared in an instant, but in the depths of the empty space, it seemed that another terrible pressure was condensing.

Darth Malthael's expression also changed slightly. He instinctively felt that Darth Sidious was brewing something terrible.

Then, Darth Malthael suddenly felt something was wrong! He felt a tremor from the depths of his soul!

Without any hesitation, Darth Malthael immediately used another power he had just realized. Blood-red flames began to cover him around his body, and a dark and gorgeous armor also appeared on his body!

His eyes were already occupied by the vast light of the Force. No pupils could be seen, only the light filled with power.

Such power belongs to the Protoss, the Dark Archon!

At that moment, with the power of the Dark Archon, Darth Malthael's figure disappeared instantly. He actually tore through the space and hid in the void!
Almost at the same time, everything around Darth Sidious began to disintegrate without warning. Even the bricks of the temple that had remained intact except for the collapsed structure in the previous devastating clash were completely destroyed this time and turned into countless rubble and dust!

Not only that, this terrifying and invisible annihilation is still spreading and spreading. It's as if there is another world here, and this other world is swallowing up the real world!
"Force Storm...!" Darth Malthael gritted his teeth.

He could feel that the all-annihilating force field created by Darth Sidious was the Force Storm! The constant killing had caused imbalance and chaos in the world of the Force, and this imbalance and chaos would eventually lead to the creation of a Force Storm.

No one knows what the Force world is. For tens of thousands of years, countless sages have been studying the nature of the Force world, but they can only prove that such a world exists. No one knows what this world is like and where it is. Maybe it is a high-dimensional space, or it may be a subspace.

In short, from ancient times to the present, there are countless artifacts of the Jedi Knights and the Sith Empire, all of which are the use of the Force World. They use artifacts to open a channel between the real world and the Force World, and then draw on the power of the Force World to drive the artifacts.

The effect of this, to use a very direct metaphor, is endless power.

For example, the amulet of Mur, which is only the size of a palm, was enough to turn millions of Mandalorian Crusaders into Rak Ghouls in a short period of time. After that, it continued to emit energy in the underground city of the planet Taris, and the time position of thousands of years stopped, completely covering the underground city of the entire planet, and billions of people were all turned into ghouls!
To this day, Moore's amulet is still as powerful as when it was first made.

The source of this power is obviously not the artifact itself, but the "channel" opened by the artifact to trigger the power of the Force world!

Therefore, the communication between the real world and the world of the Force is strictly limited, and the establishment of a "channel" is very difficult, which requires very sophisticated Force alchemy.

But Darth Sidious took a different approach. He launched wars, provoked conflicts, instigated wars across the galaxy, suppressed riots, and countless lives were slaughtered because of these wars.

In the midst of the constant killing, the already unstable Force world began to lose balance further. One of the most direct manifestations of the Force world losing balance is the Force storm.

The Force Storm will occur in the real world without any warning, and once this storm appears, it will annihilate everything! Whether it is a planet or a star, it will be directly torn apart by this terrible force. No one or any object can escape such annihilation.

As long as there is midi-chlorian in the body, one will be affected by the force storm and will not be able to escape at all!
When the Force Storm reaches its peak, the boundary between the Force World and the real world will become blurred. There is no doubt that the energy level of the Force World is countless times that of the real world! The disappearance of the boundary between the two worlds means the disappearance of all life in the entire galaxy.

Before all life disappears, the use of the Force will become easier because the boundary between the Force world and the real world becomes weaker. To put it more directly, a large number of powerful Force-sensitive people will emerge, and the existing Force-sensitive people will become extremely powerful.

Throughout history, every time a large-scale war breaks out, a large number of powerful Force-sensitive people will emerge on both sides of the conflict. This is because large-scale wars lead to large-scale killings, and large-scale killings lead to an imbalance in the Force, and an imbalance in the Force will create more powerful people.

But this time, Darth Sidious controlled almost all the power of the Galactic Republic, and after the reorganization into the Galactic Empire, he easily extended his atrocities and killings to the entire galaxy. The imbalance of the principle he caused was a complete collapse!
As a result, devastating Force storms began to form in the Force world.

Darth Sidious, on the other hand, was opening a 'channel' through himself, and then controlling the Force Storm to a certain extent! Introducing this annihilation energy into the real world, no one could resist such an attack.

(This explanation of the Force Storm is not an official setting of Star Wars. The official actually does not directly describe what the Force Storm is. This paragraph is my own understanding and development based on the existing settings and some side plots.)
No wonder Luminara Anduril had warned Darth Malthael before that he might be killed by Darth Sidious in a single encounter, because she understood the power of the Force storm and the realm that Darth Sidious had reached now.

Darth Malthael did not dare to be careless. Facing the Force storm, he could neither dodge nor resist it. He could only use the power of the Dark Archon to temporarily hide in the void and thus avoid it.

He shuttled through the void, seized the opportunity and instantly appeared behind Darth Sidious. Two blood-red lightning bolts condensed in his hands and pierced Darth Sidious's back and waist with a click!

Darth Sidious didn't even look back. Another force storm appeared and the blood-red lightning was directly annihilated!
Not daring to stay here, Darth Malthael quickly escaped into the void again to look for an opportunity.

Since the fusion with the Dark Archon formed by the Dark Templar Sora-A and Aura-Khan, Darth Malthael has inherited many of the Dark Archon's powers and characteristics, and he is now more sensitive to the Force. Therefore, through the induction of the Force world, he can still see the trajectory of Darth Sidious' attack.

Since you can see it, you can avoid it!

Seeing that the Force storm caused by Darth Sidious was getting larger and larger, Darth Malthael did not dare to delay any longer. He used the void to shuttle back and forth, aiming at the gaps in the Force storm and launched an attack on Darth Sidious.

Finally, he discovered that Darth Sidious was not prepared for traveling through the void and was very unfamiliar with dealing with it. He could only continue to expand the range of the Force storm to prevent Darth Malthael from getting close.

Just as Darth Malthael once again escaped into the void and prepared to launch a sneak attack, he suddenly realized that something was wrong! The surrounding environment seemed to have become much darker!
This is impossible! I am still in the void! How can the environment of the void change? !

At this moment, Darth Sidious' figure disappeared like a shadow, and then instantly appeared behind Darth Malthael, and a force storm suddenly covered the place where he had stood before.

However, the latter responded promptly. After realizing something was wrong, he moved to the other side through the void, and the Force Storm failed again.

Darth Malthael steadied himself and looked to the other side.

Sure enough, the shadow of the black hole that reflected countless stars was standing there. With his assistance, Darth Sidious could move freely in the shadows and had no chance to catch any chance!
At this time, the Judge and the Priestess had also rushed over, and they immediately understood the key to the battlefield. Without any verbal communication, they directly wielded their lightsabers and rushed towards the black hole from the left and right!