The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1489, Order No. 66 (Execute Order 66) (6)

Anakin-Skywalker had no idea when and how he left the parliament venue. He walked around the square in front of the parliament building like a walking dead.

What happened in the council meeting just now shocked his mind and almost made him collapse.

He feels that everything around him is changing, it seems that everyone is cheating on him, everyone is betraying him! This feeling makes him suffocate, no one can trust, alone...uneasy...fear...

Anakin felt that his lover Padmé Amidala didn't understand him. She seemed to have been paying attention to her political ideas, but she always ignored him who was constantly fighting on the front line...

He felt that the Angel of Death, Darth Malthael had tricked him into turning his mother into a walking dead, saying it was resurrecting his mother!

He felt betrayed by the Jedi Order, why the Jedi Order established the clone army? What are they planning?

He felt that Master Yoda had betrayed him because he actually went to assassinate Palpatine, but he didn't even consider how much disaster it would bring to the Galactic Republic if there was a problem with the speaker!

He felt that Master Windu had betrayed him, that he had betrayed the tenets of the Jedi Order and started killing!

The creed of the Jedi Order? So far, how much of the Jedi Order's creed remains unbroken?

In the meeting just now, the evidence presented by Speaker Palpatine almost shattered all his illusions and all his persistence for more than ten years!

Anakin Skywalker, leaning against a statue, tried to find a place to go, but found he couldn't go anywhere.

Jedi Temple? What are you going to do? Go back and face Shake Ti and the others? They will definitely ask themselves why they didn't get rid of Palpatine, and they will also ask if there is any special intelligence between themselves and Palpatine.

But how to answer them? Answer them that it is because you yourself started to form an army without telling the Galactic Republic 13 years ago, and then put yourself into it?

Now Anakin just felt that he couldn't breathe as soon as he returned to the Jedi Temple, and the heavy and hopeless atmosphere made people despair.

So, to Padme's side?

No, Padmé may not have forgiven himself, and he himself has not figured out how to resolve the difference in philosophy between the two. If you go to her with such a disagreement, maybe you can only end up in a quarrel in the end.

Then what? Barracks area?

The Kamino clone has already been disbanded, or sent to the extremely cruel northern battlefield, and none of his former comrades in arms are left. Including Rex and the others, they had sneaked into the army to fight side by side with him during the Onderon planetary battle before, but after the battle ended, everything was a mess and they were separated from them.

Where else can I go? Go to planet Naboo to accompany his mother?

But... she is already a walking dead... turned into this by Darth Malthael...

Thinking of this, Anakin Skywalker's gaze brought a terrifying murderous intent.

At this moment, a thick voice suddenly came from behind, "General Skywalker, Your Excellency, Speaker, please go to his office to discuss matters."

Deputy Speaker Mas Almeda, Anakin instantly recognized the voice of this person. Letting the deputy speaker come to invite people in person is indeed a big enough card, but now Anakin is upset, and just said flatly, "You still call me general? Now the Jedi Order should have been revoked. It's a job in the republic."

"You are different, General Skywalker. You are the only person your Excellency trusts in the Jedi Order. He always believes that with your righteous character, it is absolutely impossible to participate in those things." Mas- Almeda's attitude at the moment was even a little flattering, and he was completely different from his firm and mighty appearance in the parliament hall.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand, regardless of his tall and mighty appearance, Mas Ameda is essentially a person who immediately licked his face and hugged Palpatine's thigh after losing the political struggle.

Follow others, flattery is his true face.

"Okay... I'll go right away." Anakin Skywalker got up from the statue and walked towards the Capitol.

...

"I'm sorry, Anakin." After seeing Anakin, Schiff Palpatine, who was sitting in the middle of the speaker's office, apologized straight to the point, "I have been keeping these things about the Jedi Order you."

"Jedi Order, what happened? Is it really the clone army established by Master Seve-Dias 13 years ago?!" Anakin-Skywalker asked the question that he had been puzzled, "Now The Jedi Order, why does it feel so foreign to me?"

"The Jedi Order has never changed. The only thing that has changed is how much you can see." Palpatine said with a smile, "Because of their persistence, the Jedi Order has gone through tens of thousands of years, defeated Countless enemies were killed. But it was also because of their stubbornness that the Jedi Order finally went to perish."

As Palpatine said, he took out a document from the drawer and pushed it in front of Anakin, "After the war broke out, I suddenly got news that the Republic had a clone army, and then I sent a special envoy to Kamino planet, the authorization documents obtained from them..."

He pointed to the long series of numbers on the document and the signature below, "The one who signed the document was a member of the Supreme Council of the Jedi Order at that time, Master Seve-Dias. And this plan involves an extremely large sum of money And the military industry orders are also the support that Master Seve-Dias received from his dealings between the Kuat Power Dockyard and the Interstellar Banking Association. The mortgage for cashing these funds is the credit of our Galactic Republic."

"In other words, they are sure that the Republic will pay for this huge sum of billions?" Anakin Skywalker frowned.

"If war does break out, the Galactic Republic will undoubtedly pay for it," Palpatine said.

"What did they say about the Jedi Order?" Anakin asked.

"Just now, Master Shak-Ti gave me an official answer - the Jedi Knights only learned of the existence of the clone army after the outbreak of the war, and Master Seve-Dias never conducted any investigation on this matter. Report. And judging from the time when the document was signed, a few days before the document was signed, Master Seve-Dias had just been expelled from the ranks of the Supreme Council. Are you familiar with it?" Palpatine was still smiling Said.

"familiar?"

"That's right, Master Yoda had just quit the Jedi Order before this assassination against me..."