While the thug was wandering around the cathedral (now more like a construction site) with two servants of unknown truth, one of the guards noticed their wandering behavior and questioned them about who they were and what they were doing in the church.

The villain and his servants replied that they had been ordered to prepare for the Count of Fisher's son.

When the guards heard that they were involved in the ordination of such a noble man, they took them to the apse, which was being built, and told them to listen to the bishop's call.

At that time, the bishop was discussing with two painters about the decorative paintings to be painted in the nave of the church.

Two painters, one from Neustria and the other from St. Omeer, were summoned by the bishop to renovate the church.

The bishop wanted to paint a symbolic picture of the dome and the surrounding walls.

In the center of the picture is a maiden representing the city of Turnest rising from the sea, holding the dawn star in her hands to split through the darkness, surrounded by several saints deliberately chosen by the bishop—saints who had previously been depicted wearing monks' garments with sleek yellow faces, but now asked to be depicted before they became monks

Appearance - fishing, logging, farming, sheep herding......

"Three hundred and sixty lines, walk the saints." The bishop said to the two painters, "Are the saints worse than ordinary people in their work? Becoming a saint is a difficult task, so the laity who are generally not strong in faith may wish to start with the state they were in before becoming a monk. ”

The two painters, who were not new to the master, did not question the bishop's understanding of religion and immediately expressed their understanding.

Then the bishop asked that these saints be painted as worldly and pleasing images, such as the convent of St. Sina, who turned out to be an old woman with a straight face and harsh lips like the caretaker of the girls' dormitory, shriveled to the same level as the previous bishop, and now the bishop asked that she be painted as a pre-ordination

The image, that is to say, a round, plump, benevolent young woman caring for a sick person.

The bishop instructed the painters to observe the women who were caring for their children in the hospital if they did not know how to paint, and taught them to experiment with the lighting of small models before painting.

It was agreed that the two painters would paint a wall first, and whoever could paint the most attractive image of the saint would be given the job of painting the dome.

The work was agreed upon at the same time as several priests from St. Hillary's Abbey, who had been ordered by the Duke of Ulrich to give gifts to the cathedral of St. Aubrey and Tournest. The gift was a goblet and a holy book. The goblet is pure gold, and the cup is inlaid with three precious stones, which are:

A piece of real ivory, a piece of jasper and a piece of red agate. All three stones are embossed with patterns in a technique popular at the time: St. Aubrey on white ivory, the symbol of the Savior on red agate, and a miniature version of Tourneste Church on jasper. The gemstone is surrounded by roses and arabesques, while the rim and base are present

Trimmed with three rings of droplets. The holy book is made of paper, but its cover is two pale green serpentine stones with the sacred symbol inlaid with gold, and the cover is bordered with gold and silver.

The Bishop saluted and thanked the clergymen for their arduous journey, invited them to their guest rooms to rest and eat, invited them to evening prayers, and called the steward of the sacristy and told him to hasten to put away these two valuable gifts from the Duke of Ulrich.

The recruited thug looked greedily at the belongings offered to the church, and he felt that these things were more wonderful than what the Countess had promised him.

Then the bishop called him to him and asked him who he was and what he was doing in Tournest.

While the bishop questioned Countess Fischer's emissary, Abu was answering his employer's questions at the bow of the ship.

"Is Turnest really rich?"

His employers, desperate for an answer to this question, had their hands on their knives, and their eyes and hearts had long since flown to Tournest, the golden city that Abu had depicted to them.

"Of course." Abu replied that although he had answered similar questions many times, he did not mind repeating it until he had seen the dome of the church of Tullest, "The dome of the church is silver, and it sparkles under the sun, and you can see it clearly from ten miles away on a fine sunny day."

Plainly! Inside the church, you can imagine all the treasures, silver, gold, precious stones...... It's got it all! And they had a great idol of gold, bigger than a man, and they called it St. Aubrey, and men and women from near and far came to worship it. There is also a female idol made of silver in the church, Kazuma

They called it Santsina, and women from near and far came to worship the idol with incense. In addition to these two idols, they also had gold candlesticks, gold plates, gold wine cups, and scriptures with gold covers, all of which were pure gold, and were set with many precious stones, and of each of them forty pieces, and these were me

See for yourself! Even the walls and floors are paved with marble! The priests inside are all in golden robes and jade clothes! There is also a men's convent and a convent in the city, which also contain about the same amount of treasure! ”

Abu gushed on and on about the fact that he had boasted most of the treasure, but he did not feel that there was anything wrong with what he was doing—Turnest was indeed rich, and even if he exaggerated, the real amount would have been enough to satisfy his employers, and besides, such an exaggeration would have been possible

Relieve the boredom of a long journey, and secondly, fully boost the morale of these people.

As he expected, when they heard of such an abundance of treasure, those people all showed extremely yearning looks.

"In addition to the pagan temples to which we will dedicate to the truth, as well as the men, women, and children of the city, let Lord Abu also speak about them." The man who spoke had apparently made Abu's storytelling his only entertainment during his boring journey.

"Good one," Abu agreed, and began to speak, "and there are no less than two hundred thousand infidel in the city, all dressed in purple and red, fat, and gold-clothed, and busy all day long with their wicked business, and living a sinful life far from the truth, and they spend all night drinking, eating meat, and making merry, women

The people swaggered almost naked, engaged in wicked and dissolute trades, and none of them knew the slightest shame and knew how to cover their hair (the crowd gasped with excitement) and they were all wicked, and they did not know the truth, and threw themselves at the feet of the idols of gold and silver......"

"Look!" A cry of surprise interrupted Abu's statement, "There, the glittering silver dome!" ”

There was a choking sound, and many people could not help but draw their knives and shout: "For the truth!" ”

The Rakkadian ship shot like an arrow off the string towards Tourneste.