Karl put one of the intact books in his inventory as well, to read later, and continued his search through the rubble.
The back rooms would more likely have valuable tomes than the front, unless there had been books stored in the pews. But those were likely to be the same songbooks that he already had.
The back of the temple looked like it had taken much heavier damage than the front. The blocks were mostly shattered, and not just collapsed, while there were signs of burning as well.
That might be secondary damage, the result of a lamp or fireplace being active when the building was destroyed.
But it also looked like more attention had been paid to this area, and someone had cleaned it out of valuables before the barrier was erected.
There were empty shelves in the rubble, the desk drawers had been removed and stacked to sit empty in the weather. Very orderly, not like the place was ransacked, but like someone had deliberately come to remove the valuables for safekeeping.
