But it was Ares who found the situation most intolerable. He was outraged. He looked down and saw battles being fought in the human realm with their customary ferocity, yet no one was dying. Warriors were being run through with javelins, trampled by horses, gutted by chariot wheels, and beheaded by swords but they would not die. It made a mockery of combat. If soldiers and civilians did not die, why then—war had no point. It settled nothing. It achieved nothing. Neither side in a battle could ever win.
