Vivian noticed Hao Ren studying the murals and came over to take a look as well. "Looks pretty strange, huh?"
"What the heck is this painting supposed to be?" Hao Ren knew Vivian had investigated matters related to the church while they were in Lunber Town, so he turned and asked her.
Vivian shrugged. "This is what their Goddess looks like in their minds."
Hao Ren: "...Their Goddess looks like this?!"
"Abstract art," Vivian said with a frown as she stared at the bizarre, grotesque scene. "To be honest, I think they made the Goddess a little too ugly. Aren't they afraid that if the Goddess sees herself painted like this, she'll get angry and destroy the world again?"
Hao Ren stared speechlessly at the "statue of Goddess," which looked as though someone had randomly smeared thick black-red paint and fluorescent powder into a lump. He had absolutely no idea what was going on in the minds of the Radiant Church's people. He wondered what would happen if one of Raven 12345's followers—assuming she had any—painted something like this for her. Optimistically speaking, getting struck by lightning a hundred or eighty times in one day probably wouldn't be enough. At the same time, he felt a little impressed by the Radiant Church's religious painters: being able to paint something so completely patternless was a skill in itself. It must have been hard on the Goddess's followers for their Goddess to be this abstract.
Vivian watched the mural for a while before looking away. "You keep studying it. Looking at such an ugly Goddess gives me a headache."
Who wouldn't get a headache looking at this thing? Hao Ren immediately lost interest in studying it as well. He returned to the center of the church and found that Lily had already