Did Yulista truly want to surrender?
The answer was beyond doubt.
High-ranking figures of technological civilizations like Yulista naturally did not wish to perish in war.
Back when the Wizard Civilization had gone to war with the Galente Federation, when the war reached its end stage and the Galente Federation stood on the brink of utter defeat, had there not also been so many Galente Federation higher-ups begging for their lives?
Moreover, as a technological civilization that had put all its points into defense, the fact that the Engineer Civilization had invested the strength of its entire civilization into defensive fields already showed that this civilization possessed little ambitious heart for outward expansion and little of a violent temperament.
It was precisely because they feared death and dreaded the strong that they had put all their points into defense.
Since they feared death... surrendering to the Mechanical Civilization this time was only natural.
If they surrendered to the Light God Race, the overwhelming majority of the Engineer Civilization's upper ranks would suffer disaster. Even the middle ranks might be thoroughly purged in blood.
Only those ignorant, low-level beings would be left behind. After they reproduced for another dozen or so generations—merely several thousand or ten thousand years—they would likely have long forgotten their ancestors' war against the Light God Race and instead become the Light God Race's most devout believers.
Such an outcome was naturally unacceptable to the Engineer Civilization's upper ranks, Yulista included.
Thus, by comparison, surrendering to the Mechanical Civilization seemed far more reliable.
Furthermore, Yulista himself had just concluded that the Transcendent Realm existence of the Mechanical Civilization might harbor a desire to cherish talent and subdue them.
Seeing it this way... quite a few of the senior engineers present could not help but be moved.
However,