✠ Draconis Nihilus Indomitus ✠
LORD INDOMITUS
Through Fire and Blood.
Through Justice and Strength.
On the Anvil of War, We forge our Destiny.
Lorn Reingard
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Bastila Sal-Soren
CLEANSING FIRE
Genarius | Edic Bar | Technical LevelsThrough Fire and Blood.
Through Justice and Strength.
On the Anvil of War, We forge our Destiny.
CLEANSING FIRE
Monster.
He had met monsters. He had seen them. He knew where they dwelt right now. High on their own power, worshipped as deities and brutal without necessity. Decadent, corrupt and yet so inconsequential these days. Harboring power for the sake of clinging to it. For the sake of feeling stronger, feeling superior. Devastating people and planets to show their superiority - but not achieve anything. Those were monsters.
And IT was a monster, a greater evil than all of the petty Sith, warmongers, destroyers and conquerors the Galaxy could muster.
Reingard was too blind to see it and too eager and zealous to simply oppose what he did not understand, that he launched himself together with his girlfriend at Imperius.
Their blades ignited, and the world shrank to a corridor of metal, breath, and inevitability.
Imperius did not raise His voice. He did not posture. He simply moved.
The instant Lorn surged forward, the titan's gauntleted hand swept to His sword belt. Valoris left its scabbard in a single, fluid draw—no flourish, no wasted motion—black durasteel ringing beneath a low, hungry hum as its Force-etched edge met the light bleeding from their sabers.
He stepped in, not back.
Lorn's direct opening strike met the full, immovable weight of a master who had killed entire battalions with this blade. Imperius caught the incoming arc not with brute strength alone but with perfect angling—deflecting, not stopping, letting the momentum slide along Valoris' broad flat before turning His wrist to fold the attack away from His centerline.
A half-step to the right, sabatons grinding sparks from the floor.
Bastila's complementary swing came in sharp—good timing, good instinct. Imperius rotated His torso, cape shifting like a blood-red tide, and brought Valoris sweeping across in a diagonal parry that forced her blade up and away, stealing her leverage before she could settle into a rhythm.
The counterstrike was immediate.
First - toward Lorn, a single, brutal downward cut meant not to hit but to pressure, to force the Sword of Shiraya to brace, to absorb, to lose the offensive by necessity. A blow that felt like a collapsing building even as they both knew the exact point of contact was left to fate.
Second - without a pause, He pivoted off the momentum, dragging Valoris through a tight, controlled arc toward Bastila's centerline, a punishing thrust that stopped just shy of overextension. Efficient. Measured. Forcing her to commit her stance fully or yield ground.
No roar. No taunt. No theatrics.
Just the cold, expressionless precision of an executioner who had done this a thousand times—and planned to do it a thousand more.