Not to mention capturing the outpost and using it as a base to block them, only then was the situation slightly stabilized.
Utilizing the undiscovered Beast Lair tunnels at the time, deploying suicide squads to disrupt the wildland development progress.
This led to later playing "Whack-a-Mole" with those heretics, because Hamlet had too few people at the time and lacked the development capacity.
Of course, the early disruptions by the heretics contributed to this, anyway, the development couldn't keep up with the expanded lands.
Lance didn't blindly expand, but instead held the outpost to train soldiers, bleeding the Ascension Sect.
During this time, it's safe to say the outpost faced many dangers, even the high wall was breached once, but fortunately, it was successfully defended in the end.
From that point, the roles of offense and defense began to switch, because with population replenished, Lance needed more land to settle these people.
