Darth Malthael looked coldly at the two people before him. Looking at the middle-aged man with a big beard, he said, "I told you, you would definitely come back, Obi-Wan Kenobi."
Obi-Wan Kenobi merely gave a slight bow in greeting, but he kept his head lowered and remained silent, his hands tucked inside his sleeves and his face expressionless.
Darth Malthael paid him no mind. He turned to look at the fair-skinned Zabrak woman standing nearby—the fallen Jedi Knight, Maris Brood.
"You are Shaak Ti's apprentice?" he asked coldly. His incomparably powerful Dark Side Force spread out without restraint. To the two standing before him, it seemed as though an endless vortex of darkness loomed behind Darth Malthael!
Maris Brood was already drenched in cold sweat and trembling all over. The moment she heard the question, she dropped to her knees with a thud. Before Darth Malthael's terrifying Dark Side Force, she could not even muster the slightest thought of resistance. "Y-yes... My former master was Shaak Ti. I understand now... I understand the power of the Dark Side. I am willing to embrace the darkness... Please, my lord, teach me the essence of darkness..."
"Ha ha ha ha ha!!" Darth Malthael burst out laughing. "The essence of darkness? Are you worthy?"
"I wouldn't dare... I wouldn't dare..."
"My apprentice, Darth Lilim, is preparing to go to the Eriadu system. Go with her and serve as a servant. That is all. Get out." Darth Malthael spoke coldly.
"My lord... my lord, but... they said..." Maris Brood wanted to say something, but the instant the word "they" left her mouth, she felt as though an invisible force had seized her throat and lifted her into the air!
The powerful Force suspended her directly before Darth Malthael. The agony of suffocation made