"Your Majesty, it is an honor to meet you."
Hearing the blue-haired girl speak, the aged emperor sighed.
"I lost," he said.
He had lost completely and wholeheartedly.
Despite combining so many examples and gathering so many armies, he had still lost to the kingdom. This girl who had risen from the kingdom's fallen nobility was already comparable to an empress.
She had created an era.
A golden age that brought all humanity together.
Once their nations were conquered, only a tiny number of remote regions in the entire human world would remain outside Kalu's control. Those regions could never withstand her army of hundreds of thousands, or even millions.
"Since Your Majesty has already admitted defeat, please come with me to the rear and sign the surrender agreement. If you refuse, my army will launch an attack on your country. For the sake of your people and your family, what choice you should make... I believe Your Majesty understands clearly," Kalu said calmly.
The emperor's feelings were complicated. To be honest, surrender was still immensely painful for him. His status had always been lofty, and he had never imagined that he would fall to such a state.
But just as Kalu had said, if he did not comply now, not only would his life be unprotected, even his dignity might be insulted. They were enemies, after all. Enemies had no reason to show mercy to enemies. Thus, he stepped forward helplessly and said that he could surrender to her on behalf of all his people.
"Very good, Your Majesty. You are far more broad-minded than I imagined."
"I only want to live peacefully," the emperor said, voicing his true thoughts.
That was right. Compared to so-called power and wealth, life was the one thing that could not be abandoned.