After what felt like an eternity of silence, the man to finally break the dead-lock within the war council room was none other than the master strategist Alaric.
After thinking about the predicament that the Empire was facing long and hard, he came up with a conservative plan that allowed the Empire to better understand the strengths of their new and improved enemy before making any big moves.
"I propose that we start preparing for a long and arduous war.
That we start storing food and grains en-masse and prepare a few evacuation and emergency strategies in-case we need to temporarily cede land to the demons.
Of-course our first priority is to never let the demons into our lands, however, if they have indeed grown more intelligent, then holding them off at the far-off border villages will indeed be difficult.