After entering the atmosphere, Amir quickly found Bo-Katan's ship.
The ship was parked on a high platform. Before it lay tangled vines and old dwellings.
They had been empty for more than ten years.
Seeing the Traveler arrive, Bo-Katan also stepped out of her ship.
After getting off the ship, Amir looked into the distance.
This was yet another planet destroyed by war.
A thriving species had once lived and multiplied here, continuing a civilization unique to them.
Now, only broken walls and ruins remained. If one looked carefully, one could still see deep scars that even time could not erase.
"Are you confident?" Amir asked Bo-Katan.
The woman nodded. Mandalorians never showed fear before a fight. Right now, there was only one thing in her mind: how to find that man, and how to use every ounce of her strength to defeat him.
Amir helplessly shook his head.
The Mandalorian ritual for deciding a leader was extremely strict.
Bo-Katan had to fight Maul alone and defeat him without any outside help, then reclaim the Darksaber, before she could be recognized.
Not only recognized by her people, but also by herself.
Bo-Katan's convictions would not allow her to take shortcuts.
But how powerful was Maul now?
Amir did not know. But as a powerful Force-user with superb lightsaber skills, Bo-Katan definitely did not have a guaranteed chance of victory.
Amir even felt there was a greater chance she would lose.
So the result might be that she could not defeat him, yet would still refuse to let anyone traveling with her help.
In the end, she might be seriously injured, or even killed.
Amir had come precisely to prevent that outcome. After all, everything had started because of him.
"How far have you searched?" Amir asked.
"Including the place we're standing now, there are only a few former settlements in total. We'll finish searching them soon. If you weren't lying..."
"Then let's wait and see." No matter how confidently he spoke now, it was useless. All they could do was wait.
"This place is so gloomy!" Millisyn said uneasily as she looked at the red sky and the rotten earth. If this were before, she would already have run off to play by herself, but now she only wanted to return to the ship.
"Every planet has its own unique environment. Just try to appreciate it," Amir said. Was this not also a kind of ruined beauty? So he found a spot and had BD-4 take a picture.
At that moment, another ship flew in from the distant sky. Bo-Katan frowned. This was not one of their ships.
"It's my friend. He's here to help. Don't worry," Amir explained.
Bo-Katan did not care much. As long as it did not interfere with her final duel, that was enough.
Soon, Han Solo came running over from the side.
"I'm going to search this area too. Do whatever you want." After saying that, Bo-Katan returned to her ship.
Han put his hands in his pockets and asked Amir, "What's the situation now?"
"We wait. Dragging this shadow out won't be easy."
Now only the four idle people remained here. Amir looked ahead and saw a wall half-buried in the earth, so he decided to walk over and take a look.
With the Force's help, Amir easily crossed over dry, tough plants, stepped through a muddy swamp, and arrived before that stretch of wall.
There were some simple patterns carved into the wall, like the faces of certain figures, but they had been eroded by time and were no longer clear.
The moment his hand touched it, Amir suddenly saw scenes that had once happened here.
Artillery fire. Roaring blasts. A droid army marching forward step by step. A thin body leaned against this wall, gasping heavily. Then blinding fire exploded beside her, destroying both her and the wall together...
The intense emotions she carried before death had connected to the mural she had been staring at. Because of that, the scene from before her death had been preserved in the Force here.
Amir's touch and his Force perception made it manifest.
Obi-Wan had said this Force technique was called a Force echo.
When one's perception reached a certain level, they could see images of important events that had happened to certain objects in the past. Of course, if one had a special talent in this area, they could sense it easily.
Many Jedi could use this ability, such as Quinlan Vos, who was skilled at tracking, and the fugitive Padawan Cal Kestis.
Amir had seen images from Force echoes before, but none had ever been as clear as today's.
"Memories left by death are always deeper..."
Not far away, he could also see the wreckage of a droid. It had been even more severely corroded, but Amir noticed something unusual about it.
These old battle droids were not intact.
If they had been killed by blaster fire, they should not be missing any components, but Amir could tell at a glance that the droids' interiors had clearly been hollowed out.
After stepping closer, Amir discovered that the traces left behind were not very old. They might even have been recent.
That meant someone had been active nearby.
Bo-Katan's people had split into teams and were spread across the planet's various habitable regions, searching carefully. This area was the one Bo-Katan herself was responsible for.
She had just set out to search.
If there really was something here, she should be able to find it soon.
The process was simple: detect electricity, detect signal emissions, and so on. No one could live without such things. He would need electricity for lighting, cooking, and contacting the outside world through electromagnetic transmissions.
Maul, now the boss of Crimson Dawn, had no need to make himself suffer over such small matters.
Amir climbed to a higher spot and silently sensed the surrounding environment while waiting.
Sure enough, before long, Bo-Katan called him.
"Found him?" Amir asked.
"A small lead. I've sent the coordinates to you and to everyone in the nearby area." Bo-Katan's eyes were fixed tightly ahead. "After finding him, do not make a move. Leave him to me."
"I understand."
After she finished speaking, a coordinate file arrived on Amir's wristguard.
"Han! 32!" Amir shouted. "We've got work. Get on the ships and prepare!"
Hearing Amir's words, 32 brought Millisyn back to the Traveler, while Han returned to the Millennium Falcon.
Amir did not go back, because the coordinates were not far away. He could reach them quickly on the ground.
Breathing in the muddy smell, Amir ran forward at a swift pace. The distance to the target point on his wristguard rapidly shortened.
The red fog grew thicker and thicker. The area ahead was no longer suitable for ships to advance.
Amir saw Bo-Katan's figure. She had landed here and had just stepped down from her ship. In her hand was a receiver, which she was using to detect the signals coming from the surroundings.
"It's just ahead," Amir said. He had already sensed the dense dark side Force coming from in front of them.
Shielded by the mountain and concealed by the thick fog, no one would have imagined that, on such an abandoned planet, in such a hidden place, there was someone who should have died long ago.
Bo-Katan dropped the receiver in her hand and drew the blaster pistol from her holster.
It was one of the many weapons on her body, and also the one she was most comfortable using.
To face Maul, she had readied every weapon.
It was like preparing for a grand hunt.
If she succeeded, she even wanted to engrave Maul's likeness onto her armor as a mark of honor.
"Don't be nervous. Maybe he's just an old man who can barely move now, and you can kill him casually," Amir said, arms crossed, looking as though he were standing aside to watch the show.
Perhaps that was exactly what people meant by giving easy advice when you were not the one in danger. Bo-Katan rolled her eyes at Amir and walked forward.
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