"Whoa!" Velov's face went pale as he slowly bent his knees. In the end, he dropped to one knee, signaling his surrender.
His action seemed to trigger a chain reaction. Seeing this, the other Astra Militarum higher-ups followed Velov's lead and uniformly knelt before Gray on one knee, shouting, "We surrender!"
Ever since these Astra Militarum higher-ups had begun their operations alongside the Defense Force, they had deeply realized the enormous gap in strength between the two sides. The Astra Militarum simply could not contend with the Defense Force.
Even so, when Gray asked whether they were willing to surrender, these men still gritted their teeth and stubbornly held on, unwilling to admit defeat so easily. Deep down, they still harbored a sliver of hope and confidence in the Imperial Combined Fleet in space.
They believed that the Imperial Combined Fleet's number of warships would be enough to defeat the Star Navy Fleet. Yet reality was like a heavy hammer, ruthlessly shattering their final hopes.
When Gray played the brutal scenes from the Jesta Galaxy before everyone, every person present was shaken by what they saw.
At that point, the last remnants of resolve in the Astra Militarum higher-ups finally crumbled away. They clearly recognized that the Imperial Combined Fleet had already failed and had no possibility of defeating the Star Navy.
Faced with such a cruel reality, continuing to resist would only cause more lives to be sacrificed in vain. It was utterly meaningless.
After a fierce internal struggle, these once-proud generals helplessly lowered their heads and chose to surrender to Gray.
After all, in such desperate circumstances, surrender was perhaps not an unwise choice. At the very least, it could preserve their own lives and those of their subordinates.
As Gray watched the Astra Militarum higher-ups choose surrender