It was a vast human war, far greater in scale than the Third World War people had once imagined.
After all, the worst people had imagined was that the Fourth World War would be fought with stones. Yet the war in Lier's memories had nearly flattened the entire surface of the planet.
People could still pick up stones, but almost all of those stones carried lethal doses of radiation.
Primitive humans would not know how to use that radiation. If technology were lost, they might have to wait for some kind of cockroach to evolve radiation resistance. Otherwise, the surface was no longer fit for life.
But at the very beginning of the war, people had not launched all of the million or so nuclear weapons ultimately used at once-
At first, people curbed one another's trade, inflicting economic damage on the other side. As the situation worsened, import and export restrictions turned into a complete halt in trade.
When goods could no longer cross borders, weapons would begin crossing them.
"...This was a dream. I want to emphasize that."
Lier paused there.
Martin nodded slightly. After all, his own miraculous, inexplicable negative energy already existed.
More importantly, he could sense that Lier was not fooling him. Deception was another act that could readily cause shifts between good and evil in people, and he could easily distinguish it.
"Weapons crossed borders, but it was like the early stages of the total trade blockade."
The war began with border disputes. Small countries saw opportunities in the strife and began fighting desperately with weapons they could not manufacture themselves, while some countries could only watch in despair as their homelands became battlefields-
Many places in the world had no armies of their own, but they did have plenty of military bases that