A Backfiring Scheme
On the Hedia hyperspace lane, Toprawa planet, a world roughly ten seconds away from Dathomir planet, a Duchy of Dawn Navy Consul-class aircraft carrier hovered in space.
Darth Malthael was meditating, bringing himself into peak condition. After all, a hard battle still awaited him on Dathomir planet.
A moment later, a notification sounded beside him. Darth Malthael abruptly opened his eyes, and Dark Side Force flashed through them. The power released in that instant made the witch Charal beside him shudder from head to toe.
For that brief instant, Charal felt as though she had been cast into a world of death, sensing the withering and lifeless silence of all things...
She hurriedly swept her frightened gaze over Darth Malthael, not even daring to linger.
The more she understood Darth Malthael's power, the greater the fear in her heart became, leaving her utterly unable to show the slightest defiance or disrespect.
Darth Malthael had just appointed her as a royal advisor, keeping her at his side to provide ideas and assistance for his dark experiments.
Darth Malthael had discovered that the so-called Shadow Magic Charal had learned could often produce excellent results when combined with Sith Alchemy. Moreover, Charal truly was an exceptional Nightsister Order witch. Otherwise, she could never have stolen the artifact Ring of the Crow, nor survived more than a century of pursuit unscathed.
From another perspective, living for over a hundred years also showed that Charal had considerable knowledge of longevity.
Darth Malthael headed toward the bridge, where two women in robes and ornate masks were already waiting.
One of them wore an exquisite white mask with a gap at the forehead, revealing a black gemstone embedded there. Her skin was dark, her posture tall and upright, and she possessed a composed, steady