It was a miniature apocalypse for the human race and a sort of instant population control. The 7 billion number of humans that seemed like it might even rise to 11 billion in a hundred years was quickly reduced to less than 5 billion in a matter of hours.
The loss of life was substantial, but the unfeeling AI's and androids did not care. They also did not report it to Dante per his request because he left the entire matter to them. The man himself had only programmed the message and then left the planet to begin a part of his space conquest.
It was sort of like when the kind and benevolent principal who everyone knew would be relatively lenient even if strict was away and the wicked and cruel vice-principal used his name to deal with the students in the school harshly.
