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[Imperial Officer killed. Rewarded 150 Points.]

The Imperials had frozen in shock, and one of the younger ones, an archer in the back, toppled over as he vomited his lunch.

That's when Ralof came running in, aiming for the archers in the back. This seemed to wake up the Imperials as the officers in heavy armor tried to get in his way, while the archers nocked their arrows.

Jumping in between, as I slashed at the first Imperial officer. He tried to block, but his sword did almost nothing as his arm was severed. Unfortunately, because his chest around was more reinforced, I did not manage to cleave him in two.

Kicking him off my sword, I eyed the rest of the Imperial Officers, and jumped down the construction I was on.

My feet now in the small stream of water, which water had turned red, I beckoned them over with my finger. I did not use the Force, but I still managed to pull them over as three of them charged me at the same time.

Raising my greatsword, I stopped all three of their attacks, before strongly kicking the one in the middle in the chest. Then, pushing the other two's weapons back, I slightly crouched, spinning on myself as I used my greatsword for more momentum.

I cut both of them at the waist, and although I hadn't bisected them, I had cut their kidneys apart.

While they fell to the ground with screams of pain, I drove my sword into another Imperial Officer, this time using my range as well as power.

Because I had moved to the center however, more of the Imperial Officers could attack me at once.

[Imperial Officer killed. Points Rewarded 150 Points.]

The second Imperial Officer I had attacked had died of his injuries, and three others were out of the combat and slowly dying.

This meant there remained five Imperials Officers, and they were all surrounding me now, meaning there were none on Ralof. I had to be careful of Healing Potions, however.

Taking a high stance with my sword, I did not move as I looked at the five Imperials, who were hesitating. They were all armed with the same weapon, Imperial Swords, which made things easier.

Since they were the same weapons, they worked the same way. Had there been axes and maces, this fight would have been more complicated. So I guess I ought to thank the Imperial Legion one day for being so systematized.

One of the two Imperials behind me finally decided to attack, but thanks to my enhanced senses, I felt the attack coming.

Turning around with a swift strike, I knocked the sword out of his hands, before following with a quick following strike. He was unable to follow as my sword slashed into his head.

[Imperial Officer killed. Rewarded 150 Points.]

It honestly felt like I was cheating. If the Imperial Captain had Stats around 200, these Imperial Officers had Stats around 150, and the Imperial Soldiers were only average men, at 100.

So I had more than double the Stats of these men, and it showed. I had no doubt they were better with the sword than I was.

However, I had a longer weapon, yet I was much swifter than any of them, and each of my strikes were so powerful they could barely offer any resistance to them.

They were brave, however, as the other four immediately attacked when I killed their companion. And despite my superior Stats, when surrounded by weapons, I couldn't avoid them all.

I got two cuts in the back.

The pain helped fuel my powers though as I switched my grip on my sword to only one hand, still carrying it easily, while I thrust my free hand at one of them, forcing him two meters back with a Force Push.

Then, I pivoted, swinging my greatsword with the goal of killing all three with this strike.

Unfortunately, they had already moved back, making me attack thin air. And next thing I knew, I had an arrow sticking in my shoulder.

Looking at the side, I noticed that while Ralof was not losing, one of the archers had managed to get away long enough to shoot me. Now, he had an axe through his head.

Bad news is, this arrow had hit me square in the shoulder, unlike the last one, and had gotten quite deep in.

So instead of pulling it out, I snapped it, sending a jolt of pain in my body, and left the part in my shoulder there.

Although my arm wasn't turned useless, I struggled to lift it well, so using it to hold my sword would only result in unbalance.

So I fully switched to a one hand style, and this time, I started really feeling the heaviness of the sword. Strong as I was, this was a massive two handed steel greatsword.

[Imperial Officer killed. Rewarded 150 Points.]

One of the injured Imperials had died, but another had died, as there were once again five of them. They weren't surrounding me anymore however, although they were trying to walk around me.

But at this moment, I felt something click in my mind. The Genetic Constraint, which I had broken for a moment in the last mission, was once again broken.

I had been trying for the last ten days to open it again, but I had never managed to do so, resulting in my lackluster results in the Jedi Path.

But now, I felt my mind cool down as my anger, and most of my pain, vanished. Moreover, as I looked at the five Imperials, I felt like a beast stalking its prey, my instincts heightened to never before seen heights.

With a swift leap, I rushed at the three closest Imperials, fast enough that the other two, who were trying to surround me, wouldn't be able to attack in time.

As I moved, I armed my strike, completely ignoring any of their attacks. And the three Imperials did start their attacks. However, when they realized I had no intention of dodging, and was going to attack them anyway, something interesting happened.

Two of them got cold feet as they stopped their attacks. But it was too late for them.

As for the last attack, I did not dodge it, but I slightly moved my body, in such a way that as the sword impaled me through the chest, it avoided every organ.

I wasn't so great an expert to know exactly where every of my organs were, but under the state of the Genetic Constraint, I just knew it.

Then, I swung my sword with a power I did not even know I had, and split all three men in half.

[Imperial Officer killed. Rewarded 150 Points.]

The three died nearly instantly, while the last injured one also passed away from his injuries. Now, only two Imperial Officers were left, while I had a sword sticking through my chest.

But by now, the two Imperials were already traumatized, and they did not look like they wanted to fight anymore.

I wasn't going to let them run, though.

Taking the sword out of my chest, I threw it at one of the Imperials, who was running the fastest, and impaled him through the back. As for the last one, I caught up to him before he could even leave the cave, and finished him off.

[Imperial Officer killed. Rewarded 150 Points.]

All ten Imperial Officers were now dead, and I was quite injured myself. Turning to look at Ralof, he had already finished his fight, and was looking at me, gasping.

At this moment, the Genetic Constraint sprung back up, and the moment it did, I felt a paralyzing pain invade my body.

It wasn't just the pain that had been lessened from the Genetic Constraint, it went beyond that as I felt a pain greater than I had ever felt.

Struggling to open my bag, I took out two health potions, and gulped them down quickly.

This helped alleviate some of my pain, but my wounds did not even close up, as the potions were instead used to quell whatever was causing this pain in my body.

I quickly searched through the Imperials, and was glad to find Health Potions on all of them. They were all Minor Potions, but it was better than nothing.

It took three more potions for the pain to finally go away. I found another three on the corpses, the others having already drunk theirs, and I drank these three too.

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