After the unbelievably awkward incident, Leonard quickly regained his composure. He looked at the system pop-up before him and swiftly read the lines of text, which appeared in his mind like flowing water.
"The village’s secret is that due to its superstitions, it used women to pray for rain by casting them into the river—romantically calling it a marriage to the river god. However, they called forth a monster instead of summoning a river god. The creature granted the villagers only a few rain showers, demanding more sacrifices of women for additional rain. Eventually, all the women in the village perished. At that point, the villagers turned their sights on lost travelers. Ultimately, the sacrificed women devoured the monster and became one, returning to exact revenge on the villagers."
It is a tragic tale of fate, yet in the end, just another excuse for these monsters to deal with humans. After all, inside a dungeon, who wasn’t a monster?
[I suspect Leonard peeked at the script from the screenwriters!]
[You mean Nerio, right? Haha.]
[Either way, there’s nothing dramatic left to watch in this scene.]
Regretful comments flashed by as the dungeon fully sealed itself. At that moment, Silvanus returned to his own space.
The moment he arrived at his star-studded performance space, Silvanus couldn’t help but exclaim in shock.
Right in the middle of the galaxy, an unusually massive star shone with an almost blinding brilliance.
Silvanus swore this was the first time he had seen such a phenomenon.
"System, what’s going on with these stars? They’re not going to explode, are they?" Silvanus questioned the acting system.
The system promptly appeared: [I don’t know either, sir! You can investigate it yourself!]
There were far too many things this useless system didn’t know.
[I can hear your thoughts, sir!]
"Am I wrong, though? What do you know?" Silvanus sneered.
The system whimpered pitifully, crying chit-chit as a tearful face popped up on the screen in front of Silvanus. Then, it vanished entirely, as if retreating into a corner to wallow in sadness. Before disappearing, it even made sure to complain:
[You never praised me even when I was helpful!]
Silvanus smirked. "You were the one who dragged me to this godforsaken place, forced me to be an unpaid actor, and even devoured my memories—don’t act like you’re the victim here!"
[I didn’t eat your memories!]
The system, wrongfully accused with no way to defend itself, could only retreat into a corner and sob quietly.
Silvanus ignored it. His eyes locked onto the suddenly appearing bright star. He wasn’t sure if it was just his imagination, but hazy images flickered in his mind for a fleeting moment as if trying to invade his thoughts. However, in the blink of an eye, they vanished as if they had never been there.
Silvanus furrowed his brows but quickly shook off the strange thoughts. His expression lightened—he couldn’t wait to check the rewards he had earned after that exhausting performance!
The moment he opened the system’s control panel, his eyes lit up, and for the first time, a broad, radiant grin spread across his face. He couldn’t hold back his excitement, throwing both arms into the air like a long-oppressed prisoner finally tasting freedom.
Silvanus shouted in pure exhilaration. Even the sulking system immediately popped out of its corner, cheering for him in a booming voice:
[Congratulations on your unbelievable achievement! With just a little more effort, a bright future awaits us!]
Silvanus sneered. "Go crawl back into your corner."
The system whimpered chit-chit, cursing Silvanus for being heartless—abandoning his "friend" when he saw "money."
Meanwhile, Silvanus was staring at his account, eyes gleaming with excitement.
A system pop-up reflected in his brilliant gaze.
[Congratulations! You have collected 71,467 acting points!]
This was a number Silvanus had never even dared to dream of before. Although he had expected to earn a decent amount from playing Nerio, this sheer sum still left him utterly stunned.
Nerio hadn’t just deceived everyone with a single identity. At first, he appeared as a mere human, and convincing people of his humanity had earned acting points. Then, he led them to believe he was a monster, which granted even more acting points. This was thanks to the audience, who, despite their near-omniscient perspective, were sure that Nerio was a monster.
Finally, came his divine identity. Making the viewers and the in-universe humans believe that Nerio was a god resulted in an astronomical amount of acting points. The final reward was so staggering that it nearly brought Silvanus to tears.
Staring at the massive sum before him, he wanted to cry.
In the final battle against the monster, for the first time, he had used Faith Points for something other than the system’s Creation function.
He had spent Faith Points to freeze the monster’s two massive hands before sealing it inside God’s Realm. At that moment, he had no idea why the thought suddenly emerged. Initially, he had planned to use Creation to forge an ice blade and slice off the monster’s colossal arms.
But when that unexpected idea struck, he couldn’t resist trying it.
And in the end, it worked. Silvanus had finally grasped the immense power of Faith Points. However, the price was steep—more than 4,000 Faith Points had vanished in a single move. At that moment, he was left utterly broke.
Silvanus felt as if his heart was bleeding. He could only hope that the believers he had gathered from the previous two dungeons—and this one—would help replenish his losses, even just a little.
Yet, when he saw the number of Faith Points before him, it felt like he was dreaming.
[Congratulations! You have collected 25,780 Faith Points!]
What the hell?! 25,780 Faith Points?! FAITH POINTS?!
Silvanus couldn’t help but rub his eyes before hastily opening the stats panel.
Most of these Faith Points came from Nerio’s new believers—his influence was truly unbelievable. Of course, it made sense. The strongest god, one who inspired devotion just from his very title—who wouldn’t admire such a being? Especially an influential figure willing to protect his world.
At the top of the contributor list was Leonard, with over 5,000 Faith Points offered!
But what shocked Silvanus was the sheer number of faith points from the Prophet’s believers. It wasn’t just high—it was rapidly increasing as if competing fiercely with Nerio’s followers.
Silvanus had no idea why Drake’s Faith Point contributions were so absurdly high—he was even about to surpass Leonard. And yet, the Prophet hadn’t even appeared.
[Drake prayed to you, but you ignored his prayer.]
The system suddenly spoke up, jolting Silvanus’ memory.
"Wait—prayers generate Faith Points, too?"
[Yes. The more devout and frequent a believer’s prayers, the more Faith Points they provide. Occasionally, responding to them can boost their faith even further.]
Silvanus finally understood.
But another automatic pop-up suddenly appeared before he could fully enjoy his relief.
[Incomplete entity detected. Commencing evolution!]
The moment he saw those words, Silvanus knew what was coming next.
"Wait—WAIT A SECOND!"
I JUST got to enjoy feeling rich for a moment! Don’t steal all my Faith Points!
But before he could even scream those words, his vision went dark.
A soft, radiant glow enveloped his entire body, and the space around him fell into a deep, prolonged silence...