While the disparity in numbers may have grown too great to give the Hexers a chance of making a comeback, this did not weaken their willingness to fight at all! In fact, they became even more adamant about killing the Fridaymen!
"Kill the invaders!"
"The Hexer dream shall never die!"
"Death is not our end! All of us shall return to the Superior Mother's embrace in the end!"
The Fridaymen forces that were pushing deeper into Hexer territory started to notice that their opposition became increasingly more irrational on the battlefield.
Even as their highest leaders and most elite soldiers quietly pulled out in order to accompany the evacuation fleets as they fled to the Red Ocean, the remaining grunts and soldiers did not become demoralized.
Instead, they became more feverish in their opposition! Entire Hexer mech armies and mech divisions launched head-on attacks at the invading Fridayman forces.
The ferocity of the Hexers rose even as their access to supplies, mechs and mech pilots had dwindled!
No matter the state of their mech units, the Hexer soldiers did not entertain any notion of retreat or surrender.
The Fridaymen fighting against these rabid women and their simpering boys could not understand why the opposition did not lose heart after the departure of so many leaders.
By now, the six matriarchal dynasties had already abandoned the Hegemony entirely!
Even the smaller groups such as the Wodin Dynasty had left behind much of their territories and fixed assets in order to escape with whatever they could carry away on short notice.
"Why aren't you laying down your arms, already? Your state is already gone! Your leaders have already run away! There is nothing left for you to fight anymore!"
"We must defend our people!"
"You are not doing your fellow Hexers any favors by fighting! The more we have to fight, the more your civilians will suffer."
"They will gladly sacrifice their lives to preserve the righteousness of female superiority!"
"You stupid witches! You are all dying for a lost cause. The Hegemony is already over. Your boys will finally learn how to live like men. There is a brand new future for Hexers such as yourself. As long as you go through our reeducation programs, you will learn that there are much better causes for you to fight for. Don't you have enough of this war?"
"The Superior Mother demands our devotion! Blood must be spilled to satisfy our Supreme! If not yours, then mine shall be our sacrificial offering!"
"You're crazy! All of you deranged witches have gone utterly crazy!"
The remaining Hexer leaders who were left to fight the Fridaymen exhibited similar behavior. The Fridaymen simply couldn't understand why their opponents had lost their sense of self-preservation.
Over time, the Fridaymen didn't even bother to think about it anymore. All they knew was that every armed Hexer needed to be killed without exception.
No matter whether they were women or boys, every citizen of this collapsing state was more than willing to sacrifice their lives in order to take down at least one Fridayman!
What was even more ridiculous was that many surviving Hexer mech factories had stopped with fabricating other mech models. They exclusively focused on producing as many Valkyrie mechs as possible!
A lot of surviving Hexer mech armies ditched their previous combined arms doctrine. They threw away their balanced mix of mech models in favor of fielding overwhelming numbers of Valkyrie Redeemers and variants.
A lot of invading Fridaymen mech units started to encounter death on a frequent basis as they pushed into the interior of Hegemon space.
Thousands if not tens of thousands of Valkyrie mechs frequently emerged on the battlefield. Many of them barely bothered to organize themselves before launching all-out suicide charges at the Fridayman positions!
"Death comes to everyone!"
"Let us reap their souls!"
"The Superior Mother shall reign in the end!"
Many Hexer star systems turned into killing fields due to the radical behavior of the remnants of the Hex Army.
The Fridaymen suffered badly but the Hexers lost even more lives!
The number of battle-ready Hexer soldiers dwindled at an unprecedented rate. The cloud of death hanging over the Komodo Star Sector grew even heavier as the potential of many strong and healthy humans were cut short by the final resistance of the Hexer people.
"Is it worth it to die for an imaginary god?" Tristan once questioned a captive Hexer officer.
The spiteful woman in restraints responded with a smirk. "The Superior Mother is no figment of our imagination. She is very real. Soon I shall join her side in death and fight for her for eternity!"
"That's nonsense."
"The Superior Mother does not care for your opinion. All she wants from us is blood and death, hahahaha!"
"Hahahahaha!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"