Star Wars New Order - Volume 1 Chapter 15 Knight Trials2

Vaner had just taken a few steps before the door that had opened, closed behind him. Vaner looked an instant behind him before continuing to advance while looking around. Vaner knew he was in a corridor, the corridor was not lightened but he could see the light at the end.

Reaching the end of the corridor saw something he didn’t expect at all. The underground he expects to see was nowhere, what was in front of him were ruins with a high sun in the sky. Vaner looked behind and still saw the corridor however it was part of a destroyed house.

Frowning Vaner started using the Force to feel his surroundings, and surprisingly everything around him was real that was what the Force feedback told. Continuing his way Vaner start to explore and soon realized that the ruins of the city were small and seemed ancient as some green moss was growing stones on the ground.

Reaching the end of the ruins he could see a small plain with a forest circling the plain. As Vaner was observing his surroundings searching for his test, he felt a ripple in the Force and looking back at the plain he could see a man going out of the forest.

The man was wearing a dark robe and from the distance, Vaner could see neither his face nor anything else but he could feel through the Force the dark side that dwells inside him. Feeling the dark side of the Force coming from the man heading toward him Vaner knew he was the Test.

‘So my test is to fight a Sith’ thought Vaner as he starts walking toward the Sith. The distance between the two starts shrinking slowly as neither of the two seems to be in a hurry. Vaner was observing his opponent and as the distance dwindle, he could see the Sith better but it didn’t help much he only knew that his opponent was a man and had a bad scar on his face.

As the distance was decreasing Vaner blood was starting to boil as his excitement was becoming hard to contain and a smile slowly starts to creep on his face and what was even more shocking was that the exact same thing seems to happen to the Sith but with the scar on his face his smile became fierce and quite frightening.

Soon the distance between the two was less than fifty meters and as if the fifty-meter line was some kind starting line the Sith start to charge at Vaner. Seeing this Vaner continue his slow advance as the smile on his face became even wider.

The distance was soon reduced to less than twenty meters and the Sith who was rushing at full speed use his momentum in conjunction with the Force and jumped. The jump made him close the distance left in an instant as he activated his lightsaber ready to kill Vaner.

Seeing his opponent jump toward him the smile on Vaner face vanished, and he looks at the Sith as if he was looking at a retard. In the air you only make yourself an easy target and while the Force may help you dodge, it would impossible with his current speed.

His opponent almost being in range to slice him Vaner activates his lightsaber and as the purple blade appears a crackling sound could be heard spreading in the silent plain. The Sith moved his lightsaber slashing widely at Vaner however before his arm could even make half the movement it fly in the air being closely flowed by another arm and a head.

As the exchange happens in an instant four impact sound could be heard as the head, the two arms and the rest of the body hit the ground.

Looking at the body on the ground a small smile appeared on Vaner face as you could hear him murmured “Well it seems it works quite good even without the high ground” before letting a small laugh.

Vaner felt a little disappointed he had hoped that this Sith would give him a good fight but sadly he didn’t. Thinking about this encounter Vaner concludes that this Sith should be at the level of a Padawan.

Having killed his opponent Vaner started to head back to the entrance however just as he had done only 2 or three steps he felt a new disturbance in the Force. Turning around he could see 3 Sith clothed in the same way as the first coming from the forest.

Looking at them Vaner knew he would have the fight he wanted, even if they were just as strong as the first with three of them they should be able to give a good fight.

The three-light up their lightsaber and start to close in slowly, when they were close to Vaner they start encircled him. Looking at them encircling him Vaner had a calm smile on his face as he lifts his lightsaber waiting for them to do the first move.

Vaner didn’t have to wait long before one of the Sith came slashing at him, Vaner who easily block the attack felt that it was neither really strong nor fast concluding it was just a prob. The Sith started to accelerate his attacks on Vaner who parried them as easily as the first one as if there was no change.

The exchange between the two didn’t last long as the Sith on the side of Vaner started to attack too as the one behind him was still observing. Facing the attack of his two opponent Vaner blood start to heat up, the exchange lasted for a little less than a minute with the third Sith not interfering but his presence made Vaner divert some of his attention to keep an eye on him before Vaner stopped caring for him.

The exchange reaches a stalemate as Vaner stops the attack from the two Sith at the same time and a contest of strength starts to engage between the three. The two Siths seeing this didn’t panic but start to laugh as they stayed voluntary in this situation as the third Sith who had not to move until now rush at Vaner to strike him from behind.

Feeling the movement from behind Vaner stayed calm and at the moment the slash from behind came at him, he stayed in its way and use more strength to stop this stalemate. Surprised by Vaner not moving away the two Sith didn’t react and in a swift move by Vaner found themselves losing both of their hands which were holding their lightsabers.

As Vaner separate the hands of Sith from their bodies, the strike from the third one came at him but he still didn’t move and the strike pass through him along with the Sith who also pass through the two Sith.

‘Like I thought the third one was not real’ thought Vaner before heading to the two amputate opponent and finishing them off. Once they were killed their bodies along the one first one vanished with the illusion but Vaner knew it was the end as he felt new ones coming from the forest again.

Observing once again the forest Vaner frowned as the number of the opponent had increased once again going from three to eight but three of them should be illusion however five was quite a lot. Moreover in those five, one of them should be stronger than the other as he was not wearing the same black robe but he was wearing some kind of armor.

‘Hmm Five of them, I will need to be a little serious here’ thought Vaner, seeing that they didn’t come from the same place Vaner decide to reduce their number and rushed to the closest one.

Vaner rush caused the other Siths to move toward their companion, Vaner arrived first and knowing support would soon arrive for the Sith he chose to end him fast.

Closing in Vaner strike the Sith from above, the Sith lift his lightsaber to block the attack however before the two weapons clashed the ground under the Sith cave in making him lose his balance stopping him from blocking Vaner strike. The slash landing on the Sith, his body got cut in two from his shoulder to the end of the opposite side ribcage. Only understanding in his last moment that Vaner had used the force on the ground.

Having killed the first one Vaner felt movement behind him, only to see a lightsaber coming at him when he turns. Vaner didn’t panic and use the Force to push himself backward dodging the lightsaber strike. Having been dodged the Sith didn’t stop and continue his attack only to be blocked by Vaner.

Having blocked the second attack Vaner kicked the Sith in his side before cutting him down and heading for the next one. Soon Vaner had killed all the Sith beside the armored one and the illusions he totally ignored.

Vaner and the armored Sith who had until know only looked at Vaner killing the other face each other in the center of the plain.

“Not bad for a young Jedi” said the Sith

“Oh not bad that’s all” answer Vaner surprised that this Sith could talk as none had made a sound before not even when they were amputated or killed.

“I will show you what is strength” said the Sith in a madden laugh as his eyes start to glow orange

Vaner only smiled as he had prepared during this short discussion, even if this Sith had a Force shield to protect him from force ability with the force he acc.u.mulates he would freeze him long enough to kill him.

“Are you ready, enough preparation?” said the Sith before attacking Vaner, hearing this Vaner was destabilized for a second but it had no impact on the short fight that followed before he put some distance between the two of them.

“So not only he can speak but he is knowledgeable enough in the force to sense my use of it not like the others” said Vaner to himself as a smile appeared on his face knowing he would finally have the fight he wanted.

The Sith didn’t give Vaner time and directly attack by closing the short distance between the two by jump making his strike heavier. Vaner blocked the strike holding his lightsaber with his two hands, seeing Vaner stopped his attack so easily the armored Sith was a little shocked as he felt that the Jedi in front of him didn’t use the Force to enhance his body.

Even if shocked internally the Sith didn’t stop his assault increasing the strength of each of his strikes, acc.u.mulating momentum making each strike heavier than the precedent. As the exchange continues Vaner had started to use the Force to strengthen his own body however the smile on his face only became stronger with each clash. After around a minute of intensive exchange, Vaner felt that the last few blows of the Sith hadn’t strengthened compare to the increase between each strike before.

This realization was what Vaner waited for his counter-attack, any Force user could use the Force to strengthen themselves however this had a limit and this limit was made by the capacity of your body to hold this Force. Vaner was sure few could strengthen themselves more or as much as him so while his opponent was at his limit Vaner decide to counter-attack by making each of his strike stronger and faster.

Soon the armored Sith had difficulties blocking each strike of Vaner but succeed to dodge those he failed to block. Seeing his situation worsen with each passing moment the Sith changes his strategy. Using the Force he builds some distance between him and Vaner before rushing at him again.

As their lightsaber was going to clash once again the Sith opens his mouth and released scream full of hatred fueled by the dark side of the Force. This scream attack caused Vaner to freeze before his lightsaber deactivates itself. Seeing there his chance the Sith put all his strength in his strike ready to kill the Jedi.

Hearing the scream coming from his opponent Vaner was stunned for a moment, not because of the strength of this ability but because it was way weaker than he expected but he recognized that this was an ingenious way to use the Force.

Seeing his opponent regain confidence with his freeze Vaner decided to go along and continue to act as if the Force scream had worked and deactivated his lightsaber. Seeing the lightsaber blade coming at him Vaner waited and at the last moment dodge to the side while activating his lightsaber causing the Sith to cut his own arm on the blade.

As the arm was falling down Vaner uses, the Force making the red lightsaber comes to him. Then not waiting for his opponent he activates it and cuts the Sith other arm before beheading him in a swift movement with his own lightsaber.

As the body hit the ground everything around Vaner disappeared along with the lightsaber he obtained and he found himself alone in a room without the ruins or the forest making realize how advanced the technology of this room was.