This anticlimactic farce ended with Alvin and his crew's departure; under certain circumstances, disease had actually become their amulet.
But no one cared, as things like this had been all too common along the way.
To him, those sick and weak people were far less repulsive than the malicious disdain and whispers of the Nobility.
The man simply lifted the handcart quietly and continued onward, as if he were an ascetic shouldering all the world's suffering.
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The territory in Hamlet currently under Lance's de facto control, aside from the small town itself, included three large outlying farms and the wilderness development zone, which was continually expanding northward.
From their initial design, these were not intended for haphazard, uncontrolled growth but were large, systematically planned farms. The three cultivated farms were situated in different directions around the town, integrating crop farming and livestock rearing, each capable of supporting a thousand people.
