Reading from pages 155-163 of the DelRey edition
The thematic illustration depicts Conan holding Albiona close in the midst of a crystal globe held in the undead hands of a grinning skeletal figure hung with a cowled robe.
Conan, barbarian usurper of the crux kingdom of his age, finds himself in refuge among the heretical cult of Asura
Soon the real estate developer may say: "By This Axe I Rule!"