Darth Sidious was cleaved in two at the heart, his entire right shoulder severed along with it!
"You were a very good apprentice, Darth Vader! But you will never... be a Sith Lord!" Darth Sidious snarled as countless bolts of lightning surrounded Darth Vader.
The lightning destroyed Darth Vader's mechanical prosthetics, but he seemed utterly unaware of it. Even when his respirator was destroyed and he was nearly suffocating, he showed no reaction at all!
He directly used the Force to drive his body, forcibly lunging forward and grabbing Darth Sidious. He lifted him up and slammed him viciously into the building's wreckage. Sharp debris pierced Darth Sidious's body and left him hanging in midair.
Darth Vader was not finished. He reached out and tore Darth Sidious's head off!
Darth Sidious—the Sith Lord, Emperor of the Empire, former Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, former Naboo Senator, Sheev Palpatine—had fallen just like that.
Darth Vader threw his head to the ground and crushed it beneath his foot.
"The Emperor of the Galactic Empire has fallen here!" Darth Vader roared. "I will become the Empire's new Emperor!"
He walked step by step toward the ruins of the Imperial Palace, but at that moment, his footsteps suddenly stopped!
"You have done very well, Darth Vader!" A deep, icy voice came from behind him.
Darth Vader whirled around, only to see Darth Malthael slowly rise to his feet, the grotesque hilt of the Sword of Kings in his hand.
Darth Malthael's expression was incomparably savage. He grinned viciously. "But you want to become Emperor... Hahahaha! You are still far too lacking! Hahahaha!"
He raised the Sword of Kings high, and with a swish, its pitch-black blade unfolded, pointing toward the sky!
Countless vengeful souls began converging upon the Sword of Kings! Since the war