Charging straight ahead, Liszt raced from the breach in the castle all the way to its rear garden. Activating Magic Eye, he found no sign of Yevich Shuihuasheng.
However, beneath a patch of grapevines, he spotted several servants concealing something.
He immediately sensed that something was wrong. Charging over, he seized a servant and demanded, "Where is Yevich?" Without waiting for an answer, he kicked aside the water jar the servants used for storing water, revealing a square cellar hatch.
"I-I don't know..."
"Idiot!" With a casual toss, Liszt hurled the uncooperative servant onto a nearby stone table. The man crashed against it, then rolled to the ground, unable to get back up for a while.
Under normal circumstances, he had no desire to kill ordinary people who were neither knights nor magicians.
War was a game among nobles, and commoners were usually considered part of one's wealth. It was morally unacceptable for knights to kill commoners—unless the commoners dared resist, in which case they were to be slaughtered without mercy. And even with such moral restraints, there were still knights who, drunk on killing, massacred commoners indiscriminately.
There was no punishment afterward, either.
For instance, if Liszt were to slaughter every commoner in Snow Pear Castle right now, who would dare utter a word against him? It was simply that he was not a cruel and tyrannical man, and he felt some sympathy for commoners.
Whether a knight upheld morality or not—
Depended on self-restraint, as well as all that rhetoric about the glory favored by Knight's Glory.
Fortunately, Liszt did not need the servant's answer. He kicked open the cellar hatch and swiftly jumped down. He could now be certain that this cellar was clearly an escape passage from the castle. Circulating his dragon battle qi and taking