"I'm Balis, captain of the Starlight Chanter. On behalf of the Starlight Chanter, I hereby announce that this ship will cease resistance and accept integration into your fleet.
"We hope your ship will abide by the ancient pact and grant all our crew members the rights they are entitled to."
Jenia and Balis's voices sounded in succession across the wide-area communications channel.
This undoubtedly further dampened the morale aboard the Zagramalish.
Even the few die-hard members of the Mechanical God Cult still aboard the ship gave up on making a desperate last stand when they saw the wary looks of their fellow crew members.
They weren't high-ranking members of the Mechanical God Cult.
If even the captain and other senior officers, who should have been the most devoted of all, had chosen to surrender, what reason did they have to fight to the bitter end?
Geshut had clearly been abandoned by everyone. There was no other way forward for him.
Aboard the Sky Peng Horizontal, many people breathed a little easier.
"That went more smoothly than expected.
"The captains of the few Death Starships the Mechanical God Cult sent this time clearly aren't as devoted to the cult as the captain of the Armored Cuirassier was."
Mingzhi Guangxiu smiled.
Everything happening aboard the Zagramalish was visible to the people on the Sky Peng Horizontal.
After the Defense System had been breached, the Sky Peng Horizontal's overwhelming advantage in information warfare made it easy to monitor every scene unfolding aboard the three Death Starships belonging to the Mechanical God Cult.
Absolute superiority in information was a wonderful thing.
Naturally, Li Zongxu had also made that perfectly timed "pre-battle announcement" on purpose.
And it had indeed produced the best possible result.
"Sir, let's go take possession of the Spirit Realm Shepherd first.