Those foods would never be sent outside the palace. Most likely, they would be collected and disposed of as garbage.
After all, how could the belongings of the upper class be casually touched by the lower class?
Even if they were wasted, poured out, or manpower was specifically spent destroying them, they could not be allowed to fall into the hands of the lower class.
And that lower class included most of the people in the upper district as well.
Those people barely managed to live in the upper district, yet could not even afford to waste food. They too were lower class.
Such things had happened before. Food from the palace had not been destroyed, and some starving people from the upper district had secretly picked it up and eaten it.
So after that, all palace food, whether it had been touched or not, was destroyed the next day.
At the sight of this, the Shepherd was so angry he laughed.
If no one had anything to eat and the palace itself was poor, then civilians starving to death could only mean that the king and officials were incompetent.
But the palace was clearly wasting so much food. They did not even need to give it all away—if they gave out only a portion, those who starved to death when winter came would not have had to die.
That stark contrast made the Shepherd realize one fact—the Sacred Nia Kingdom could not be saved.
This country had already rotted through from the roots.
They had relied on the sorcery called In the Name of God to blur the boundaries of morality. Then, using that ambiguity, they had continuously adjusted the moral standards exclusive to their own group, creating class morality.
By this point, the moral standards of nobles and