They were predicting how the fight would proceed and we're ready to deal with whatever their enemy could throw at them. But something they didn't expect happened after they used the Cognitive Adaptation divine ability.
Instead of activating its rank 10 divine ability or any other divine ability in response to their actions, the opponent before them fell to the ground, knelt, and bowed to them.
They were surprised not because they hadn't seen this kind of behavior before. In fact, they had seen this kind of thing from the memories of every high god. It is something that only occurs after they have won the fight.
The enemy shouldn't give up and surrender to them right from the beginning of the fight without exchanging a blow with them, so they were surprised by this turn of events. But no matter how surprised they were, they didn't stop trying to kill the enemy.
