During this time, Rocky was also observing the desolate village.
As mentioned earlier, the place they were in was the continent's No-man's Land. It was called No-man's Land naturally to conceal the existence of the Contract Land, so each major Church forbade its believers from coming here. Of course, merely prohibiting it wouldn't be effective, so a thousand years ago, the Eight Great Churches made certain modifications to this area, such as injecting toxins into the air. Without the antidote, staying here long-term would be impossible.
The antidote, of course, was in the hands of the Contract Land.
But Rocky also knew that the No-man's Land wasn't completely uninhabited. Under the operation of the Contract Land, there were over a hundred villages of various sizes like this one, which not only provided cover for the real Contract Land but also nourishment to a certain extent.
