How the heck did the villagers live in this location where strong monsters ran rampant before Van came along?

Selling advanced military technologies like that ballista to another lord before even letting your own lord know? Could be taken as treason.

“Please stop the monster and we’ll shoot ballistas at it while it is down” – right, you could have done it the last two times at the outer wall but you didn’t.

I usually don’t mind these kind of “turn off your mind and enjoy” shows, but there are just so many things that gave me pause with this one.