And Levine gradually learned a lot of the outside world's cognition, of course, he couldn't get anything good from the mouths of these people in the slums, but he was better than him alone, and most of Levin's real knowledge of the outside world came from those bards.

Although the age was still poorly fed, it was much better than the dim and ignorant Middle Ages, and even far better than the early seventeenth century, so the bards gradually revived from their slumber and became active again.

Everyone in the world is different and even has their own characteristics, but there is one kind of person who, at first glance, has a feeling of wanting to be close to people and want to be friends.

It's amazing, this kind of person can often get along with each other, and he will have a lot of friends.

Levine is like this, his appearance is not handsome, but it is not ugly, it is by no means so ordinary, but it looks like a very good person.

Even if he is very sloppy because he is poor.

This characteristic did not bring him sexual encounters, and the prostitutes did not waste their time in such oilless bars, most of them gangsters near the docks.

But this made Levine unexpectedly get to know a lot of people in the city, although they were just thieves and vagabonds, but this is not bad.

The most numerous of them were orphan thieves, and there were many orphans in this era, who lived by stealing, or starved to death, or were beaten to death, and no one cared about them.

These people are the friends that Levine just mentioned, and although they are children, Levine is also very happy.

If nothing else, it is likely that this situation will continue until Levine marries and has children. Then they get stuck between not being able to pay the high marriage tax or not being able to find a wife. This is probably the biggest problem of his life.

After that he will have a child. Then repeat what Levine did in the first half of his life.

But...... There are always a handful of unlucky people in the world, and Levin just caught up.

The Book of Atonement has been abolished for more than a hundred years, but in the past 100 years, the Church's means of enriching have not diminished in the slightest, and the rising star of the New World is the fat in the eyes of all the nations of Europe.

Of course, the Church will not let go of a piece of fat, which tilts their power towards the New World, but the Church oppresses the common farmers of the Old World. But it has not diminished in the slightest.

The weakening of theocracy may have been possible only in the industrial revolution, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but before that, unfortunately, Levin also became one of the inevitable victims of the dark future of the Church.

This era is terrible, and it is also an era when ignorance breaks through the dawn.

The book of indulgence, as the name suggests, is used to atone for sins, hand over the money, and the church gives you a worthless piece of waste paper. Maybe you can't say it's worthless, because it will save your life.

If not. So what does that mean...... Demons have invaded the body, and only burning at the stake can save this fallen soul.

How could a poor farmer have money, so the indulgence scroll forced one person after another, broke up the families one after another, and even later, if anyone had a beautiful daughter, then the next day, a priest would come to the door with the indulgence.

Although the book of atonement has been canceled, many remote areas don't even know about it, but for the church, it's just a change of name.

Levin's home was targeted by the church, not only because of his more and more beautiful sister, but also because Levine continued to move in and out of the city and began to become a bit like a city person, which made the English hillbillies around his house very unbalanced.

You know, jealousy is the original sin.

That night was a nightmare that Levine will never forget, as the icy wind, as usual, even colder than usual, froze the road with a rattle.

Coming out of the warm and deep stone houses of the city, Levin returned step by step to the crumbling thatched huts, where the torches were not raised at night for fire prevention, and darkness seemed to hang over people's heads for eternity, and tonight, it was extraordinarily dark.

"I'm back." Levine, as always, carefully opened the wooden door, returned home, put wild vegetables or other food on the wooden table, and waited for the meal with his younger siblings.

In between the plays, it seems like it's just a normal night.

But suddenly, there was a commotion outside, which instantly broke the silence.

"Burn the witch!"

"Burn her!!"

"Purify! Cleanse from sin! ”

"What's going on?" Levine was shocked, and hurriedly opened the door in three steps and two steps, his father wanted to stop it, but he didn't have time.

As soon as the door opened, Levin stayed there, and there were countless villagers gathered outside, each armed with torches or sticks and tools, and led by two strong priests, to surround his house tightly.

"You ......" Levine was stunned, he had seen witch purification, although with the weakening of the church, it was no longer three days and two ends, but it was still very frequent, and from the mouths of the bards during this time, he had a vague understanding of what the essence of purification was.

But he never imagined that this day would befall his family.

His father walked out from behind Levine in a trembling tremble, his heart was a little bitter, he understood the reason, but he didn't expect these people to come so quickly.

In the morning, there was a priest who came to collect the atonement, although old Levine had not heard of this thing, but he knew it, but he had no money, and he originally wanted to discuss with his son what to do in the evening, but he did not expect that these people had already come to the door.

For the recent changes in his son, old Levine knows, he is very happy, it can be said that after living all his life, old Levine has been repeating the same things every day, survival, food, sleep, he doesn't want his son to be like this, he doesn't want to be like this at all.

But he didn't know what to do, and Levine ran to the bar every day these days, and Old Levine was very happy when he found out, because at least Levine was a little different from his useless father!

Right now...... Old Levin's mouth was a little bitter.

"Toning ......" he pushed Levine away, and walked forward tremblingly, whispering as he passed his son, believing that his son would understand, "Take your brother and sister and go quickly......

Levine was chilled by a series of events, and he didn't understand what was going on for a while, but his father had already tore up with those people and was quickly knocked to the ground.

Levine hurriedly wanted to go up to help, but in his hurry, he saw his father's eyes full of hope and despair, and at the same time, the instinct of danger once again saved him.

He came to his senses, Book of Atonement! Gritting his teeth, Levine blinked violently and ran backwards desperately, not having time to grieve or explain anything to his younger siblings, and jumping out of the back window of the thatched hut.

Soon, the men found out about Levin's disappearance.

"Catch him!"

"Burn them!"

The fools, who had been instigated by the priest, began to chase after them with shouts and screams, and in the darkness of the night, countless torches jumped on the barren stone path, like a crooked serpent of hell.

You can't let your sister be captured by them, or you'll be burned to death! Levine knew this, and he took his sister in his arms, holding his brother's hand, and desperately shuttling through the nearby woods.

The villagers were much faster than he was with the two of them, and they were about to catch up with him, but Levin couldn't stop, he couldn't fight to the death with these people, he could only use all his life's strength to continue to run forward, and he even felt that his chest was hot, as if it was cracking.

I don't know how long it took, Levine was dizzy, he really didn't have the strength to continue running, he opened his mouth wide, but he couldn't catch his breath, Levine gradually stopped, and even the moment he stopped, he fell into the thick leaves.

I don't know how long it took.

When he woke up again, it was already dawn, and his sister was lying beside him silently, but his brother was nowhere to be seen.

Levin went crazy and began to look around, but he searched around but found nothing, and finally he had to admit sadly that he and his brother had run away. (To be continued......)