"Speak. Why?"
Joshua asked the woman, the only one still conscious amongst the Simboan party while holding back his disgust. "Why did you kill those ordinary civilians?"
***
'—Naturally, to deprive the enemy of living forces.'
The warrior could guess the answer without her reply. It was not too difficult to understand, especially for him as one who had gone through countless battles. While small-scale skirmishes in modern warfare take morality and human rights into consideration and factions would refrain from slaughtering civilians, when every weapon, nuclear and biological were unleashed without restrain in global wars, would each faction not exhaust every possibility to scorch the enemy domain into burnt lands?
