The jet-black TIE Avenger traced a complex path through the sky, shaking off the dense anti-aircraft fire behind it and precisely evading every interception trajectory.
The TIE Avenger swiftly broke free from a Blade-class fighter's attack, slipped behind it in an unbelievable maneuver, and brought it down with a burst of fire.
But immediately afterward, a barrage from blaster cannons struck the fighter's shields, sending ripples across them.
The TIE Avenger then began turning and rolling wildly, trying to shake off the pursuing Sabre-class fighter. Yet it could not completely escape; the Sabre-class remained on it like a shadow.
The pilot of that TIE Avenger was none other than the Dark Lord, Darth Vader!
He flew with remarkable composure, yet every movement of the fighter was filled with foresight.
Every sensor aboard the TIE Avenger was synchronized with his Force sense, and every maneuver was an extension of his will. The fighter was no longer a machine, but a weapon—a Force-driven weapon that only the Dark Lord could control.
The Sabre-class fighter remained at the TIE Avenger's six o'clock, never more than three thousand meters away. No matter how Vader rolled, turned, accelerated, or decelerated, that silver-white fighter followed behind him like a shadow.
The one piloting that fighter was Li Yifei.
Under the Rebirth Plan, he had taken part in nearly every aerial battle fought by the Kingdom of Dawn, becoming one of its military's ace pilots. Flying a Sabre-class fighter, he kept Darth Vader firmly in his sights and, relying on his fighter's vastly superior performance, refused to be shaken off.
What he relied on was not the Force's foresight, but instinct! Li Yifei used the instincts honed through countless battles to judge Vader's every maneuver, adjusting his own course before Vader even began to turn.
Vader's TIE