At that time, I had no idea that my name was becoming more and more famous among the teachers, that my rapid rise in rank with so few followers was attracting so much attention.
But I didn't have to worry about that.
Even if the power of the Internet was made known to the teachers, I was confident that they wouldn't do anything too bad to me because of it, maybe just an interrogation to clear up any doubts about how I was developing the Internet.
Something I had already imagined from the moment I decided to develop it, after all, with how fast I was growing, I would have to be very innocent to believe that everything would happen perfectly without any of the more powerful gods noticing.
And what I really wanted was for the other gods at the school to notice, since I'd have a thick thigh to hold up like that.
From what I had analyzed from the information in this body's memories, the divine world was very complex.
With an extremely large number of gods, with personalities that were difficult to deal with, with a lot of ego involved, and with a lot of individual power, it was obvious that it would be impossible to develop a single government for all the gods to live under.
Internal conflicts were very common, even more so with the large number of gods that existed.
Among the gods, there were good gods who didn't let envy cloud their judgment, and there were gods who thought only of their own benefit and didn't care about the consequences.
As a young Rank 4 embryonic god, I was at the bottom of the food chain in this divine world, so if I attracted the interest of a god with a bad heart who was more powerful than me, it would be very difficult for me to resist doing whatever he wanted with me.
That's why I had to attract the attention of the teachers and directors of the school, who knew how to follow militarism well and were under constant observation, in order to change my image from something curious to be studied to a possible valuable asset for the army.
The army's battles were always between gods against demons, or gods against other gods.
By joining the army, I would have to fight these battles in the future, using both my personal divine power and my army of believers.
The advantage was that if I passed the test I was taking now, my rank in the army would already be higher than the other gods who failed, or even the ordinary soldiers who had just joined the army.
Sure, if I didn't want to follow anybody's orders, I could just opt out of the test and try to find a small world of my own in which to develop.
But what if that little world already had gods running it? Would I be able to deal with the consequences of those gods looking for me in the divine world?
That's why the option of clinging to a thigh as thick as the army's was so tempting.
Despite the duties it would entail, the benefits outweighed them many times over.
Not to mention the fact that the higher my rank in the army, the greater those benefits would be...
But putting that thought aside, I focused on the small world of the test.
I could stop thinking about the outside world, the army, battles against demons, battles against other gods, when I had already finished my test and found out the result.
Just thinking about what I would do when the test was over, with so many days left, was not a good use of my time.
A better use of it was to look at how my improved ranking could be used to further improve the Internet.
With 5% more efficiency in using my Divine Power, I could put 5% more resources into the Internet without decreasing my profit!
Honestly, I really wanted to start developing more complicated things like duel monster battles, but my current efficiency in using Divine Power was still far from being able to do something like that and still make a profit.
If it was just the card game, it would be more feasible, but with a user base that is over 60% illiterate and growing, what would be the point of adding a game that people can't even play right now?
I knew I had to be patient, both to wait for the current believers to become literate with Robert's classes, and to attract new believers who would directly increase the number of literate believers.
It was easy to know how many believers were literate and how many were not.
All I had to do was to look at how many users used [Carrier Pigeon] on a daily basis, since it was an application that was practically exclusive to users who could read.
The number of frequent users of that app was just over 4,000 people, which could be considered a relatively large number, because 4,000 people is no small number, but it still wasn't enough for me to have to think about developing something exclusively for them anytime soon.
Looking around the church, I noticed it was empty.
Curious, I searched for Robert among the believers with active Internet connections, and quickly found him standing in the middle of a large crowd in what looked like a stage for concerts or theatrical performances?
There were more than 300 people around him, 90% of them holding Internet books and the other 10% just listening to his explanation with curiosity and confusion.
These people probably didn't know about the God of the Internet and were just taking advantage of the free class.
Seeing this, I realized a big problem... even if Robert held classes in large, open places like this, the number of people he could teach would not be able to keep up with the growing number of illiterate believers...
Looking at the Internet screen again, I decided to do a test.
With more than 20,000 Divine Power Points available to me, I decided to do another test.
Putting audio on the Internet...
Thinking back to my old world, radio seemed much easier than television itself, and according to the tests I did, putting audio on the Internet was much cheaper than putting video on the Internet.
But the fact that audio was cheaper than video didn't mean that the audio itself was cheap.
Putting one minute of audio on the Internet costs 10 Divine Power Points... that's 20 believers' prayers, if I were to put an hour of audio on, it would cost at least 600 Divine Power Points!
So I did a test to find out how much it would cost to listen to the audio.
Fortunately, since my affinity for Divine Power had increased and my efficiency in using it had taken a giant leap, the cost of listening to the 60-minute audio was only 1 Divine Power Point!
Now it was time for me to think about what would be best for me.
Let the public become literate slowly and reap the rewards later with less investment, or invest heavily and accelerate the speed at which believers become literate?
For the cost of 1 Divine Power Point, I could allow each believer to listen to only 1 hour of lessons on the Internet per day, so I would no longer receive the equivalent of 2 hours of profit from each illiterate believer per day, and in 30 days, virtually all of the believers who listened to Robert's audio with the blessing would be able to read and write on the Internet.
But to continue this meant that I would receive 1 less Divine Power Point from each believer per day.
Since my number of illiterate believers was just over 6,000 people, that meant 6,000 fewer Divine Power Points each day...
The more the number of illiterate devotees increased, the more Divine Power I would lose because of these audio lessons.
But when I thought about how much I would earn in the future when everyone could read and write... there was no reason for me to hesitate any longer, I knew that the only viable option was to develop this, to deal with the Divine Power that I would stop earning for a while, but then profit a lot when everyone could read and write.
So I thought about how to develop this for the future, and I started spending Divine Power to make the latest application on the Internet.
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In theory, he is the "god of imagination", creating something "imagined" from scratch costs divine power, but in theory, if he uses "matter" as a base and then "imagines" the form he wants or the "process" he wants that "matter" to go through to take the form or chemical "process" to "distill" or "refine" it, it should be possible to "maintain" its physical existence.
At least, that should be possible, since he is already using "matter" and is not creating "matter" with his divine power. It would be easier to make physical devices and technology that way.
For example, with metal, copper (and other metals) and with "resin" with the proper "process" you could create circuits, among other things.
In the divine world, you only need a "blacksmith god" (or one related to earth and metals) to get materials for him and he can use those materials. In the army of gods, you would only need to make a "servant" and its maintenance and distribute communication devices for the "information battle" of generals, soldiers and scouts.
With this mindset he only needs stone, his creativity and "imagination" to create an army of golems.
@Chouzenfox A golem is made of more than just stones, it needs a core, and other things. You can use it to have internal orders or a circulatory "system" of mana or runes made with magic stone dust or catalysts. It depends on the magical principles that the story has.
For the MC, it's easier to do it with things that are more familiar and scientific. Except that the law of physics is different, there won't be any problem.
@hanck95 True, but he needs prior technical knowledge of how to make it (he must have how to program it), because there is no book for him to study how to make it in the world of the gods. As for golems, in this magical world with divine power, I don't doubt that some god of dolls, god of golems, god of stones or magic has already written a book on how to make one.
@Chouzenfox You are mixing things up a bit here. One thing is the "hardware" (the physical, the thing made with material components, which is what I was talking about) and another is the "software" which is the "virtual" thing that can be programmed. The MC has no problems with that part, he has already made the whole "internet" with a "server" inside a crystal and "books/interface" that connects to that server periodically.
That is, he has no problem with the "software", even if he doesn't need to know programming. And it is the physical thing that is the problem, since if it is made purely with his divine power to maintain it he has to spend divine power every so often. And my comment is about a way to "solve" that problem, which is to use "matter" that already exists and he only has to "imagine" the process to treat that already existing matter to create a "machine" or "tool" that he needs to develop technology.
I would appreciate it if you would stop deviating from the topic, if you want, add a counterpoint or add something that is logical with that and not go off on a tangent already touching on abstract points such as creations based on magic.
The protagonist doesn't know enough about "magic" to create artifacts or enchantments complex enough like golems, or so it seems. If that's the case, then when someone adds that kind of knowledge to their library or chooses an enchanter or alchemist who is capable of imagining the "process" step by step.
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Or maybe I wasn't clear enough, with the whole "system" "programmed", it's easy for him to imagine all that, because he has already experienced the "technology" and what the "interfaces" of operating systems and web pages are. Also the functioning of what a terminal, a server, a proxy or a "host" is, also a "repeater" among other things.
In terms of pages, there are runes, matrices, magic circles, etc., etc. Unless he starts studying these things, I doubt he can "imagine" the "construction" of that, but he is capable of imagining fire, water, earth, wind breezes, lightning, etc., etc. as "spells" or "attacks", and in turn things like the dragon "card" and "summoning" without knowing anything about summoning.
But to make something "physical" and "real" based on matter and all the real components, you need to know the "process" that those materials have to undergo to "work" and as for circuit issues, maybe you can think a little with divine powers (instead of a Vacuum variable or a "bios" you can replace it with a crystal or find some other alternative).
bios:It is a basic memory "chip" of a computer, a "memory" that has an independent battery so that it always has electricity and all the settings made are conceived; year, month, day, hour, which hard disk to "start" first or search for the "boot" of the operating system, the temperature of the computer or emergency protocols, etc.
@hanck95 ngl, the amount of words you surround with " " really pulls down the readability. It's feels like your comment changes from casual English to "theoretical/scientific" English.
I don't think I even know what this idea is FOR.
@Help Well, I'm passing what I write through the Google translator, the " " helps me so that the meaning of some words doesn't change. On other occasions I changed the words, for example the word ray/lightning, The word I write is "rayo", but what i mean is "lightning" not "ray".
tell me which part you are referring to. While the " " helps me keep some words isolated so they don't change, it does indicate that "parts" are not legible.
@hanck95 I know your talking about making phones, but why? In the divine world? I think they have that and it's powered by Divine Points. In the mortal worlds?
Who would build it? Not a blacksmith, they need more advanced tools for that? Adrian? No, too expensive as he is.
instead of trying to modernise in the limited amount of time he has, maybe he can have people pay to enchant books into divine connections to the internet, permanent, maybe with the ability to summon it back to themselves should they lose it with a prayer.
@Help I was not talking about telephones, I was talking about technology in general, whether steam, electric, wind, thermal, tidal, hydraulic, etc.
In the subject of telecommunications for military use, I was not referring to telephones, but to radios, computers, supercomputers or even satellites and radio towers, drones.
I have no idea how you came to the conclusion of phones and only found yourself in that. But the MC can have at his disposal all the bases of high technology, even the kind that is only available in science fiction. Modernizing the divine world would serve to not depend on divine power and to create new means of communication.
@hanck95 Why should he bother modernising the divine world... when he does not rule it? How would he charge them? Electricity? When a single lightning God can mess with them? There is no God of Divinity, so divine power is the safest bet.
Plus, he is still a young God, the cost, even just to assemble them, would not be worth it.
@Help Do you know that I wasn't just talking about "modernizing" the divine world? Why are you only focusing on the most obtuse part of what I say? Or the most irrelevant part.
and the important thing about the matter is in relation to the army and what it can contribute to the war and on the front against the demons, not to modernize the divine world.
The point is to establish a network of information and devices that only he has full control over. As it is not linked to divine power for it to work or be much more efficient and maintained, he could avoid the perception of the demons and establish a great advantage on the war front and be better valued in the army, earn a position as a capital commander or some other position related to information, espionage in the information battle and troop mobilization.
You know what, if you don't understand anything from what I've already said, I don't care anymore. I'm tired of wasting my time explaining everything to you.
@hanck95 How do you know how the demons perceive stuff? How do you know that army doesn't have that kind of stuff?
Are you just assuming that they don't? That they fight like a medieval army does?
We know nothing of the army right now, it is WAY too soon to suggest how to "fix" or "improve" the army.
Just because the test is being taken on a medieval world, doesn't mean that they don't have advanced worlds with futuristic ways of fighting that the Gods could just... copy.