After making a round of the castle, he found nothing particularly valuable.
Yevich Water Peanut, the Clear Water Sword Saint, possessed assets that were downright shabby, nothing like those of a Sword Saint powerhouse. The supplies in Snow Pear Castle's warehouses were not even as abundant as the wealth of Gravel Castle and Beer Castle, leaving Liszt thoroughly disdainful.
Of course.
He was not angry enough to truly chop down the Bug Grass. Knightly warfare was a game of nobles. Though there were no written rules stating what rules war had to follow, it was much like how countries on Earth had signed the Geneva Convention to protect civilians and victims of war.
Under the knightly system, there was likewise a set of rules belonging to knightly spirit and virtue.
Different nations promoted different versions of knightly spirit and virtue, but generally, they were slogans such as loyalty, fearlessness, courage, honesty, justice, protecting one's territory, and striving for glory.
The unpublicized yet firmly established rules included forbidding the killing of prisoners, allowing knights to be ransomed with Gold Coins, forbidding harm to elves, prohibiting the slaughter of civilians, condemning traitors, requiring noble wives to ensure the purity of their children's bloodlines, and so on.
Once, the king of the Iron Ridge Kingdom had sent an army all the way to a duchy's ducal court because its duke was fond of slaughtering civilians. In the end, the duke was stripped of his title. However, the kingdom did not revoke the duchy, instead supporting the duke's younger brother in inheriting the title.
Of course, the greater reason was likely that the duke had come into conflict with the kingdom, rather than his fondness for slaughtering civilians.
But slaughtering civilians was the best possible excuse for sending troops against a duke.
Liszt followed