Once there lived a very wealthy king.  He believed in always having the best of the best.  His furniture was ornate and opulent, carved from the finest woods, stitched with the finest fabrics and stuffed with the softest of padding.  His food was always of the highest of cuisines, spiced with spices from far off lands, cooked under precise and expensive recipes with the finest of cookware and served on the purest of silver.

  So it was when this king saw a rat scurry across his dining hall floor in the middle of his supper, he grew quite upset.  He ordered his nobles to hire the finest exterminator in all the lands.

  After some research, the nobles discovered a wizard known as an eradicator.  His magics had decimated armies, flooded fields of crops, and even shaken the very mountains themselves.  The nobles spared no expense nor time in getting this eradicator into the King's castle.

  Presented to the King, the eradicator was ordered to kill the rat that sullied his magnificent castle with all alacrity.  The wizard raised his hand to protest wasting his potent magics on a mere rodent, when a noble placed a large sack of gold into said hand.  The wizard smiled and simply asked where the rat was.

  Entering the dining hall, the hole in the wainscoting was shown to the wizard.  Smiling at the easiest money he'd ever made, the wizard launched his magics deep into the mouse hole.

  Alas, this wizard had long ago forgotten all but the most potent of magics.  The spell cast into the very walls of the castle itself had only one way out... The castle exploded in a huge ball of magical energy.  The King crawled out of his once proud castle, now naught but a pile of rubble.  This humbling experience taught him a valuable lesson:

  Bigger is not always better.