The Empire Rises: Starting with the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 2854

The Price of Life

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This sword thrust straight at Sabine Wren's neck, aiming for a gap in her Mandalorian armor. Sabine had nowhere to dodge. She closed her eyes, ready to die.

Just then, a silver-white beam tore through the smoke and struck the sword tip with perfect precision. Ahsoka Tano rushed forward, spinning as she slashed down with her dual Lightsabers. Two white arcs of light hacked fiercely into the smoke.

The smoke immediately dispersed, revealing Xiao Yan. Holding her Lightsaber in reverse grip, she met the blades, sparks bursting from the collision. Ahsoka shouted in a low voice, "Is this how treacherously you use the Force?"

"You know nothing about the void," Xiao Yan replied coldly. Her figure vanished into the void once more, disappearing without a trace.

"Move!" Ahsoka Tano knew the Priestess would arrive soon. Once she did, it would be too late. Ahsoka grabbed Sabine, her Lightsaber humming in her hand.

Ezra lifted Hera Syndulla's still-warm body, looking utterly lost. "Hera is dead. Zeb is dead. Kanan is dead... What... what do we have left?"

"We still have hope." Ahsoka's voice was low but resolute. "Move!"

The immense pressure behind them was closing in. The Priestess had caught up! Ahsoka Tano pulled Ezra Bridger and ran deeper into the darker, twisting tunnels.

Sabine Wren kept firing to suppress their pursuers as she hurried after them, but Xiao Yan had no intention of letting them go.

Smoke continued swirling through the darkness. Xiao Yan was waiting for a fleeting opening. The instant Sabine Wren tried to replace the cooling module on her Blaster pistol, Xiao Yan sprang out and drove her sword through Sabine's jetpack!

The jetpack exploded with a roar. Sabine was thrown to the ground by the blast, while scorching fragments scattered everywhere. She tried to keep running,

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