The Church of the Holy Cross was designed and built in 1294 and was not initially completed in 1443. The Church of the Holy Cross was not fully built in 1863. This Tuscan Gothic church has always been the largest Franciscan church in Florence. There are some monuments and tombs of heavyweight celebrities in the church, such as Dante, Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiveli, Rossini, etc.

When Beyonetta rode a motorcycle to bring Salomon here, a small number of tourists had arrived at the Fountain Square in front of the church. On the left side of the gate was a statue of Dante, with deep brows and deep eyes, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the tourists who disturbed its peace.

The bells on the right side of the church suddenly came from a deep bell, which attracted the waiting tourists to look up.

Tickets are eight euros and come with a delicate brochure, which Salomon got from a tourist.

The front of the church was not open, but Salomon still used magic to open the door and sneaked in while no one was paying attention. Beyonita and Salomon walked into the church through the Gothic porch with white marble and the thick oak door. They did not look up and carefully looked at the exquisite sculptures on the forehead and the star of David at the top, which would be a waste of time for them.

When they entered the chapel, the sun shone a large mottled color through the colored windows of the church. However, the church was not gorgeous, and its structure was relatively simple, poor, and lacked decoration. This was the characteristic of the Franciscans. The only colorful windows that could be called colorful were works from the late 14th century, but Bernita was indifferent to these precious works of art, and she looked around casually.

She said, "Little guy, how do you convince the administrator here to check out the documents. Or do you want to read them secretly? But I think you may not have that much time."

"It only takes a little trick to control people's hearts," Salomon said. "But we don't know where those documents are stored, and the travel manuals do not indicate where the documents are preserved. But I think it's impossible to be a sacred room. If so, it would be too bad."

Following the guidance of the travel manual, Salomon took Beunita through the central walkway and the corridor separated by several rows of octagonal columns, and bypassed the sixteen small chapels arranged on both sides of the church. Those small chapels belonged to the famous Florence family, including the Medici family, and there are many frescoes left by famous artists in these small chapels.

But Salomon and Beyonetta were not here to visit. They walked straight towards the monastery that tourists were not allowed to enter. When Salomon met the first monk, he used the spell "Shape Humans".

This made him immediately become friends with the monk who could talk to him.

Along the way, the two began to discuss the Renaissance murals. In order to let their friends experience the historical precipitation of the church, the monk took them away from other monks and went to the small library located in the monastery. The most documents here are manuscripts of various Renaissance artists. He believed that as long as he read these precious manuscripts, it would definitely be of great benefit to his dearest friend.

Of course, it refers to the aspect of artistic cultivation.

"Did you see it?" Salomon spread his hands, "What a friendly person! I think even the devil of hell will be moved by his sincerity! So, Beyonetta, why do you still knock him out?"

"I don't like monks." The witch turned her head and replied. After the monk led them to the library, Beyonita simply knocked the monk on the back of the head with the handle of the gun, and the cute monk fainted on the ground without saying a word.

"I hope he won't have too much headache when he wakes up." The secret mage grabbed the monk's leg and dragged the monk who was completely unconscious behind the bookshelf. "I mean a literal headache. I hope he won't think that the devil has tempted him. I hope... Forget it, whatever, I still like him."

"Where do you have such artistic literacy?" The witch looked at Salomon busy and searched in front of the bookshelf. "I think learning magic can take up most of your time. Where did you learn those things from."

"Make up, Beyonita." The Secret Master did not look back. He was using the mage's hand to carefully obtain the precious manuscripts. "I not only have art appreciation courses, but also painting and sculpture are my compulsory courses, let alone science courses. The Renaissance was an important period for mankind to get rid of religious ignorance, which accounted for a large part of my courses."

The manuscripts collected by the Holy Cross Church include not only the notes of many Renaissance artists, but also the alchemy research led by the church.

The Franciscan church has always been a pioneer in alchemy, and Franciscan monk Rogil Bacon was one of them. He also wrote three alchemy works at the invitation of Pope Clemon IV. These works contain powerful arguments that promote knowledge and strengthen the power of the Christian state through the study of language, mathematics, natural philosophy and alchemy.

Monk Bacon believes that human alchemy is not weak with nature, but stronger. If the method is done properly, all laboratory products will be like this, and humans can replicate nature better than natural objects.

This ideological consistency continues to this day and has become the basis of modern chemistry.

The church even had manuscripts of spiritual Franciscan monks, which surprised Salomon. Because these spiritual clergy were in a fanaticism of revelation, they liked to prophecy and believed that the Antichrist was about to appear, the church ordered the arrest of these monks, including Jean de Roquetaard.

He was arrested in 1344 and then spent the rest of his life in prison, but many people still visited him, including senior priests.

During his imprisonment, Roquetayad wrote many works including "Book of Light". In his book "On the Production of the True Sword Stone", he first proposed the concept of "mass balance", that is, "the weight of the reaction product must be precisely equal to the weight of the initial material." Salomon speculated that the Franciscans at that time did not give up on spiritual thoughts. They believed that the church needed knowledge to deal with the attacks of the Antichrist, so this part of the manuscript was collected in the library.

"Holy shit!" Salomon, who was looking through the manuscript, couldn't help but exclaim.

"What's wrong, little guy?" The witch who raised her long legs to the table suddenly came over, but Salomon did not react any suddenly because of the witch's sudden reaction. All his attention was attracted by the manuscript in front of him.
Chapter completed!