Fear

That is the human heart. It could only bear so much

The emotional part of the heart shut down too because to try to imagine all of those one million people is taxing and is beyond the capacity of human emotions. 

Hence, when war journalist wanted people to sympathy with the people of a war-torn countries, they would use anecdote, the real story, the personal story of a person. 

Not reduce it to number. 

For each pain, and each death is a tragedy. 

But that….that was in the future. Aeryon feel it starkly in his first large scale battle. In this world, in this era, life is cheap. 

Really cheap. 

And the methods of killing that Dama did, if he did it in his modern world, he would be branded a devil

But here it is a common place. The Yan did it. The Roma did it. Yindu did it. Maybe later, when the world is much better place, they would find a way to erase this part of history. 

However, that is the matter of the future.