With the alien creature utterly destroyed, the war between the Empire and Cront came to a close.
But... this was not the end.
Or rather, the troublesome part had only just begun.
In Li Wei's view, war itself was fairly simple: destroy the enemy or be destroyed. The other problems, however, could not be solved so easily.
For example... the Beastmen and Beast Generals who had surrendered.
After the alien creature was killed, the Beastmen and Beast Generals lost its signal and regained their self-awareness. Some Beast Generals chose to lead their Beastmen in a fight to the bitter end, only to be wiped out by the Empire's superior firepower. Seeing this, the others figured their boss was dead, so what was the point of fighting? They promptly surrendered.
How to deal with them, however, became a major problem.
If they had been ordinary prisoners, they could simply have been treated as such. The problem was that these people were not ordinary. In fact, it was debatable whether they even counted as human.
This presented the Empire with a dilemma.
Should they kill all these prisoners or let them live?
From a humanitarian perspective, they should naturally be spared. After all, many of these Beastmen had been ordinary people before William II's corruption, forcibly captured by the people of that world and modified into Beastmen. They had not been soldiers. Despite their savagery in battle, once they returned to normal, they were just ordinary people.
All right, enough of that nonsense. Now for the inhumane perspective.
As everyone knew, the Cront Empire in that world could create Beastmen because it had employed a unique method of adjusting life lines, resolving the problem of merging human life lines with those of other creatures. However, that method itself was the underlying access