The discussion surrounding Prime Minister Spencer's suggestion continued for some time. Although taking the initiative and attacking the nearest enemy Dukedom sounded tempting, the complicated distribution of territories throughout the Empire made such a decision far more dangerous than it initially appeared.
The Dukedoms supporting Aditya and Ren were scattered and mixed throughout the Empire. If Aditya's side captured one enemy territory, Ren's faction could easily retaliate by attacking one of their allied Dukedoms elsewhere. With both factions also possessing multiple 7th-order cultivators capable of changing the outcome of an entire battle, a careless attack could quickly turn the civil war into a destructive exchange of territories.
And since more than half of the Dukes currently supported Aditya, his faction naturally had more territories to lose. For this reason, Aditya could not simply accept Spencer's suggestion without carefully considering the consequences.
