The Nobles' Game of Plunder (First Update)

Besides the elite Earth Knight Vede Dry Firewood, Liszt selected four more Earth Knights. Including the three selected by the Count and the fifteen selected by the Viscount, eight old and weak Earth Knights remained for the barons to choose from.

Thus, the first incorporation of knights was complete.

The loyalty of these knights could not yet be guaranteed; their future would depend on their performance. As for the knights who had chosen to pay ransom, they were merely tied up simply. But there was no need to worry—knights were a rather trustworthy group on the battlefield.

Becoming a prisoner was no great matter.

They could still eat, drink, sleep, and even attend banquets. They only needed to pay enough ransom when the time came.

This era had not developed nationalism, and the feudal system meant that the sense of national identity was not particularly strong either. Thus, neither nationalism nor patriotism, those sentiments most likely to drive people into fervor, had taken root. Knights went to war for each other's interests; it was a contest of strength between nobles.

Like arm-wrestling with one another.

The victorious side would not mistreat prisoners, so prisoners naturally had no need to rack their brains trying to escape. They ate and drank as they pleased, waiting for their families or lords to send ransom money so they could happily return home.

As long as they did not die in battle.

The battlefield was as leisurely as a vacation—of course, once defeated, prisoners had to bleed heavily to ransom themselves.

Watching the five Earth Knights who had just sworn allegiance quickly mingle with the knights of the Flower Squad during their rest at the castle, raising their cups and drinking heartily together, Liszt still found it absurd. War was such a serious matter, yet