The Empire Rises: Starting with the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 1834

The Dark Side's Bad Luck

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The Dark Side's Bad Luck

An hour before Darth Tenebrus went mad in despair, the Soul of Vengeance, Darth Venamis, found what he wanted...

Following the connection between his body and soul, he caught the scent of his target in an underground black market. After killing several people, he frightened a few gang members badly enough to wet themselves, and they revealed that a Bith had indeed purchased a Kyber Crystal they had taken from a dead Dark Jedi Knight.

Following those clues, the Soul of Vengeance arrived at the place where he had once hidden.

It was inside a tower barely over a thousand meters tall, a short, crumbling building amid Nal Hutta's countless soaring skyscrapers. Towers like this were effectively slums on Nal Hutta. Of course, there were also the filthy dens hidden in ravines at ground level, inhabited by vicious people who had absolutely nothing. They were so destitute that they were not even counted in population records.

The Soul of Vengeance took the elevator to the 290th floor. As it traveled between floors, he drew in a deep breath, his body twitching. "Not here..."

So he controlled the elevator down to the 289th floor and began searching, floor by floor.

Several people who lived there, looking like smugglers, entered the elevator. Seeing that the Soul of Vengeance had entered every floor as a destination, they immediately flew into a rage. One of them drew a Blaster pistol and pressed it against his head. "You little death-seeker! You messing with us?"

"Have you... seen a Bith?" the Soul of Vengeance muttered.

"Seen your mother's Bantha asshole!" One of them raised his hand and smashed the gun butt toward him!

But the next second, an invisible force seized the man and twisted him into a grotesque knot under

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