>>5608025“Your analysis still doesn’t account for one other possibility.” Carmon stated. “Do you find it unlikely that conflict could begin inside a city and then spread over to our lands?”
Her frown quickly disappeared as her gaze turned on towards the commander. “While I expect conflicts to arise inside other cities due to the simple fact that there is bound to be at least one scion who would attempt to usurp the power of their lord,” You catch Ayax frowning at that, “we can easily distance ourselves from them.” She begins to explain.
“The act of usurpation is a gamble with only fours way to end, either one of the parties achieves total victory, be that the usurper or the lord, or one of them wins but is unable to fully defeat the other, in which case the usurper or the lord flees the city to gather allies and take it from the other. Thus, we only need to not commit ourselves to fight someone else’s war.” She speaks matter-of-factly.
“That is a hard thing to do should the lord of this situation come to us seeking aid.” Again argues Agamon. “While we could easily refuse an usurper or even capture and send him back as a sign of good will, we cannot refuse the call of a rightful lord, as it would make us cowards at best and heretics against the ordained order at worst. Should we hear the call, we must be their vanguard and nothing less.” He stated, unperturbed as Uma looks daggers at him.
