"Surely you understand that if you draw your blade against me, the final outcome will be death, right?" Darth Vader said coldly, slowly raising his Lightsaber and taking a stance.
It was a unique stance he had refined himself. It resembled the Fifth Form, Shien/Djem So, while also incorporating elements of the Third Form and Fourth Form lightsaber combat.
Even Sola Balk's expression turned grave at the sight of that stance.
Had it been anyone else, Sola Balk would have harshly rebuked them for presumptuously altering the opening stance of a lightsaber form. But standing before him now was Darth Vader, one of the strongest beings in the entire Milky Way Galaxy!
Against such an opponent, Sola Balk naturally did not believe those adjustments were merely the result of whim.
Sola Balk took a deep breath, then drew another item from his waist—a short-barreled blaster shotgun!
He then slowly pressed the rear of the blaster shotgun against the end of his Lightsaber hilt, forming a strange stance. It looked somewhat like gun-fu, and somewhat like a variation of a lightsaber form. In truth, however, this stance treated the short-barreled shotgun as a second Lightsaber. Based on the dual-lightsaber form Jar'Kai and supplemented by gun-fu movements, it was an entirely new technique!
It was the unique lightsaber art of the swordmaster Sola Balk!
Sola Balk continuously adjusted his breathing. As its rhythm shifted, his connection with the Force reached its optimal state.
Though Darth Vader's words could not possibly shake the resolve of someone Sola Balk regarded as nothing more than a hotheaded youngster, Vader had been right...
Sola Balk had indeed come to fight Darth Vader prepared to sacrifice himself.
In fact, even three months after the first Battle of Geonosis, the event that marked the outbreak of the Clone