Originally, Riven intended to kill these two creatures to gain evolution points and experience. But now, the situation left Riven somewhat baffled. Even after fighting for nine years in his past life, Riven had never encountered such a situation…
'I'm afraid it's truly because of the power of the Judgment Authority that I possess,' Riven thought to himself.
He had a hunch that the appearance of this strange belief temple might indeed be related to his 'Judgement Eye.'
This temple… had secrets!
He thought for a moment, then attempted to speak, "Do you know the way? Lead me."
The two devout followers seemed somewhat confused after hearing his words…
Clearly, they had no idea what he was saying.
In fact, Riven knew that the creatures in the Land of the Abandoned Gods were actually beings from other civilizations.
However, they had been corrupted, infected, and mentally broken, turning into beasts that only knew how to drain life from humans…
These two, however, seemed to retain some semblance of sanity?
Just as Riven was thinking this, the two devout followers suddenly became alert.
A fierce look flashed across their decaying faces, and they abruptly turned, rushing toward the entrance of the hall!
"…"
Riven heard the sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor outside the hall.
It seemed that other players had arrived.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two devout followers conjured two balls of green fire in their hands and hurled them toward the distance in the corridor!
"Ahhh!"
"Damn, two Silver Bosses!"
"We can't even handle one, and now there are two?"
"Run! Quick, run!"
The green fireballs thrown by the two devout followers erupted, and in the corridor, the chaotic sounds of footsteps and shouts rang out…
Riven entered stealth mode once again.
He reached the entrance of the hall and peered into the corridor…
He saw the entire corridor engulfed in a sea of green fire, and six players who hadn't escaped in time were being burned to ashes…
"Gray Rose?"
Riven recognized a familiar figure among the flames.
It was the mature woman who had bought 'Ice Spear' from him earlier. It seemed she had also found this belief temple…
Unfortunately, her team wasn't strong enough.
The two silver gatekeepers had taken her down.
"This corridor is too narrow. Facing the devout followers' fire, there's nowhere to dodge."
"Normally, when encountering a boss, you should enter the hall first, to give yourself plenty of space to evade…"
Riven shook his head.
He watched coldly as the six players were burned to death by the green fire.
Soon, six grayish-white life orbs appeared in the corridor.
Without hesitation, Riven moved forward to collect them and was surprised to find that this group of players had dropped over a hundred days of tradeable life.
What surprised Riven further was that the two devout followers didn't seem to care about these life orbs at all.
After killing the six players, they returned to the hall and once again knelt on the floor, in the place where Riven had disappeared…
Riven ignored them for the moment.
He searched the hall but found no other paths leading anywhere.
"No way, is that it? Two Silver-level mini Bosses?"
Riven was extremely confused.
After further exploring, there was no other result.
Riven simply decided to act and eliminated the two devout followers.
As he expected, no matter how he attacked, the two devout followers showed no intention of fighting back.
They were simply killed by Riven!
[You have killed 'Devout Follower of the Ancient Gods · The Judged (Silver-tier)']
[You have gained 4000 experience points.]
[Congratulations! You have reached level 9!]
[Congratulations! You have gained 4 evolution points!]
[You have gained 188 days of life (tradeable).]
After killing the two devout followers, Riven reached level 9.
He immediately used his 'Greedy Hand' on their corpses…
Soon, Riven finished looting the two silver mini-bosses.
"32 evolution points, 1504 days of tradeable life."
"Epic-level Greedy Hand, so satisfying!"
"And, a total of four pieces of Gold-level loot, plus around ten Silver-level items…"
Among the loot, there was a Gold-level necklace that could be used by Assassins.
[Devout Pendant (Gold): Assassin-type accessory. Agility +15, cooldown speed +20%. Equipment requirement: Level 8]
[Unique Effect: Summons a Silver-level devout follower to fight for you, cooldown 600 seconds.]
The necklace had some decent stats.
Mainly, the 20% cooldown speed.
After equipping it, Riven's Shadow Step skill cooldown reduced from 22.6 seconds to 19.2 seconds!
The Toxic Dagger cooldown was reduced from 4.3 seconds to 3.7 seconds.
The Shadow Slash cooldown went from 10.4 seconds to 8.8 seconds!
"More efficient for grinding monsters," Riven thought.
As for the other loot, it was all level 8-10 gear, which wouldn't be worth selling right now…
"I'll keep them for now."
Just as Riven was about to leave, suddenly, the floor in the center of the hall shifted.
When the two devout followers were killed, a mechanism was triggered!
"This is… an elevator?"
Riven glanced around.
In the center of the hall, a circular stone disk rose up from the floor. Riven had seen these kinds of devices in his previous life. Without hesitation, he stepped on it.
Immediately, the stone disk made a rumbling sound and began to descend with Riven on it! The hall floor opened up into a circular pit…
After Riven was sent down, two semicircular stone blocks slid into place from the sides, sealing the pit!
Everything returned to normal, as if the 'circular stone disk' elevator had never existed…
If anyone else arrived here, they would only see the corpses of the two devout followers and nothing else…
Boom!
With a loud noise, the circular stone disk carrying Riven landed on the ground.
Crumbled stone and dust fell around him.
Riven felt that the stone disk had descended at least three to four hundred meters!
The area here was much brighter than before.
Along both sides of the stone walls, there were torches emitting a dim yellow glow at regular intervals.
"This is definitely a maze," Riven sighed.
He had explored many such mazes in his previous life, and he was well-versed in them. However, it would still take considerable time to fully explore it.
The most important thing was…
There were many traps in the maze! With Riven's current stats, triggering one of those traps would almost certainly lead to death.
"Good thing I just got this," Riven thought, feeling the Devout Pendant on his chest.
Using the unique effect, he summoned a Silver-level devout follower! A gray-skinned humanoid monster knelt before Riven…
"Scout ahead," Riven commanded.
At his order, the devout follower began crawling ahead of him, exploring the underground maze… With a helper scouting, Riven felt much more at ease.
While waiting, Riven opened his skill panel, preparing to use the 32 evolution points he had just earned to continue evolving his skills!