Lance had already taken a stroll through the village earlier. It was a small settlement of no more than twenty households and fewer than a hundred people, surrounded by wooden fences.
All the houses in the village were longhouses with wooden frames, plastered with mud on the outside, and topped with thatched roofs. People and livestock lived together. Their sustenance relied on the fields around the village and the livestock they bred—chickens, ducks, pigs, and cows. In their spare time, they also gathered wild fruits and set traps to capture wild animals.
This was the most common form of rural life in this world, the way most ordinary people lived—monotonous and burdensome.
In such circumstances, it was quite normal for the Church to develop a strong base among the people, who depended on faith to enrich their spiritual lives.
