Pain and Descent

Adi Gallia opened her eyes. Her gaze was still filled with Chaos, and powerful Force energy began to surge. Darth Malthael showed no courtesy, grabbing her and tossing her into another medical room beside them with a bang, leaving her to fend for herself.

Then came the next one...

Darth Malthael opened the second body bag, only to regretfully discover that its occupant had been flung from their fighter after it was destroyed and exposed to the radiation cloud produced by missiles launched from the Martha-class heavy cruiser. The entire body had been carbonized, with less than a quarter remaining relatively intact. Resurrection was clearly impossible in such a state.

It was not that it could not be done, but the cost of rebuilding the body would be too great. This one was not worth it.

The Jedi Knight in the third body bag had already had his soul dissipate. He must have been the first to die, and now he could not be resurrected either.

The fourth body bag contained a female human Jedi Knight. Yet when Darth Malthael used the Resurrection Spell of the Life Force, her Force ghost actually self-destructed!

That gave Darth Malthael quite a fright. He had never known that a Jedi Knight's Force ghost could possess such an ability.

After that, only the last body bag remained.

Darth Malthael remembered this one. She was the one whose fighter he had rammed head-on and destroyed at the end. Moreover, she had been one of the three Jedi Masters who had come to hunt him down. In other words, aside from Adi Gallia, he had killed two Jedi Masters and three Jedi Knights.

At the instant this Jedi Master's fighter was destroyed, Darth Malthael had used powerful Force manipulation to sever her at the waist with