Hamlet was small, but its vitality surpassed even that of large cities.
Amanda walked the streets. For the first time, she saw so many people with smiles on their faces, all acting very friendly towards one another.
The working people were also very diligent, showing no signs of laziness. Even stranger, this town had no Church, and its very graves had been dug up.
She knew that in all the places she had visited, while some might lack administrative bureaucrats, they would invariably have churches and roaming Clergy—the true controllers at the grassroots level.
Yet here, she hadn't seen a single member of the Clergy. Instead, ordinary people managed the town's operations.
They walked around Hamlet, where everything was well-ordered. There wasn't a trace of bureaucracy about those administrators.
Here, she saw no soldiers who couldn't stand straight, their faces pale, nor any of the wild, chaotic mercenaries typically found everywhere.
