Palpatine had initially wanted to keep this matter hidden, but he soon discovered—he couldn't. He absolutely couldn't!
According to Commander Wilhuff's subsequent investigation, dozens of star systems had suffered extinction! Every living thing had been wiped out!
Even Palpatine felt a chill run through him from head to toe after hearing Wilhuff's report.
The Inquisition's nerve was unbelievable!
Killing people... it wasn't that killing was forbidden. Palpatine was a Sith, after all, and by all rights, he was the sort who had killed countless people.
But Palpatine killed to threaten others! Killing was meant to create fear and make people submit to him. That was the main purpose!
But the Inquisition? Without saying a word, it had wiped out all life on dozens of planets, without the slightest emotional fluctuation. When asked about it, they simply said it was their job—calmly, as if they had merely slaughtered some pigs.
Even Palpatine was trembling now.
This was what true terror looked like.
The Sith had fallen to the Dark Side of The Force. Anger, fear, and the like were the Sith's sustenance, which was why Palpatine created fear and anger through slaughter. At the same time, those emotions brought him satisfaction. Whenever he used The Force to kill those who resisted him, Palpatine would also feel pleasure and excitement.
But the Inquisition... was completely different.
Palpatine even felt that they weren't the same kind of creature as him at all. They had killed so many people. Even if the Inquisition didn't consider alien xenomorphs people, even if the same number of pigs had died, an ordinary person would still have been moved by it, wouldn't they?
But afterward, when Palpatine went to ask Duanmu Huai about it, he had originally thought Duanmu Huai would find an excuse, pretend not to know,