25 – Incredible Results!
While Grant was excited on the other side of town, Henfrey, a young apprentice mage from the Arcantor Magic School, had just read the Internet Patch Notes and was surprised to find that there was an option to write a book and receive Internet Coins from the sale of those books!
Quickly opening the [Library], Henfrey saw an option with a feather at the bottom of the screen and clicked on it.
Looking at the whole interface, Henfrey was a little confused, especially since he had never seen an interface like this before, but soon a balloon appeared in the window, explaining each feature to him.
As the tutorial explained each detail, the thing that caught Henfrey's attention the most was that not only could he earn Internet Coins for selling books, but the top ten bestselling books of the week would receive personalized covers to match the story written!
Thinking back to the story he had read about a young apprentice mage, the son of a baron, who slowly worked his way up to become an archmage, Henfrey had liked the story so much that he decided to try to write a similar story.
Even though he was only an apprentice archmage, it wouldn't be a crime to dream up and write such a story, would it?
So Henfrey decided to take a small risk and began to plan how his story would unfold.
He knew that if he just wrote without thinking, he could write many things very quickly, but his story would be terrible.
Unbeknownst to Henfrey, there were dozens of other people who had the same idea.
Others had different ideas.
Looking at the books in front of them, the books they had borrowed from Arcantor Magic School's library, the idea of just copying these books was very tempting, even more so when they knew how useful these books were to other students, if they copied this and posted it in the [Library], they could get thousands of Internet Coins!
Thinking about how much wizards valued knowledge, and the consequences they could receive from the school for doing such a thing, these students quickly gave up on the idea.
On the other hand, when the teachers of the school saw this update, they realized that an option like the [Library] had appeared in the [Arcantor Magic School App], where they could write books and make them available only to the students and teachers of the school!
Unlike the normal [Library], where the Internet Coins paid by readers went to the authors of the books, in the [Arcantor Magic School App], these Internet Coins went directly into an account at the school itself.
Some teachers were confused as to why the school would want Internet Coins, as many saw it as just a way to buy things on the Internet and that it wasn't that important.
But other teachers were more perceptive and quickly realized that they could quickly collect thousands of Internet Coins and buy the most advanced magic books!
Even more so when you consider how expensive magic books became with each level...
Mortal Magic: Apprentice Mage 1 IC
Mortal Magic: Arcane Mage 100 IC
Mortal Magic: Master Mage 10.000 IC
Mortal Magic: Wise Mage 1.000.000 IC
Mortal Magic: Archmage 100.000.000 IC
Although these books were extremely expensive, even an Archmage would have benefited greatly from reading an Apprentice Mage book, just imagine how much an Archmage would benefit from reading an Archmage book!
Not to mention, since the books were extremely expensive, it was extremely difficult for a single person to buy a Master Mage level book without years of accumulating Internet coins and inviting people.
But with the possibility of transferring the school library to the Internet and letting the students spend Internet Coins to read the books in the library, wouldn't that be a quick way to get the Internet Coins they needed for the more advanced books?
Of course, the books would still have to be purchased by people working at the school, but there was nothing stopping teachers from physically lending books to each other, right?
Considering that the Arcantor Magic School had more than 3,000 students, if each student spent 1 Internet Coin a day reading the books in the library, it would only take them 4 days to accumulate enough Internet Coins to buy a Master Mage level book!
Even if the most advanced books were still very expensive, mages had long lives, wasn't it just a matter of knowing how to wait to get access to even more advanced books?
Not to mention that this could be a way to encourage teachers to work harder, with bonuses for being able to read the more advanced books on magic that the school had bought off the Internet.
So, after a meeting to decide how the school should handle this, it was decided with more than 90% of the votes that they should convert part of the Arcantor Magic School library into virtual books.
If it was as good as they thought it would be, and if the repercussions weren't too great, they could decide to convert the rest of the books as well.
So hundreds of teachers spent hours in the library copying the books and putting them in the school library.
When I saw that the wizards had done exactly what I had planned, a big smile appeared on my face.
Internet Coins were practically useless, right? Since they weren't tradable and weren't considered real currency.
But what if it actually started to have value?
What if the currency that never existed and served no purpose suddenly had a use, at some point it could be traded, it could be bought or sold?
That would be the way for the previously useless currency to start becoming a real currency...
If there are people willing to buy or sell those coins for real currency, then that currency really exists.
And as in any world, money is power, and I, as the creator of this currency, had a virtually infinite supply of this new money that was being created.
Of course, I would have to be careful not to negatively affect the world by inflating or deflating the currency, but having control of a currency was the first step to having control of the country.
The Mages, so focused on knowledge and power, didn't realize that they were legitimizing a great opportunity for me to gain power.
If I were an evil god who really wanted evil for this kingdom, this would be an important step in my potential strike against the Mages, but fortunately, I'm not.
Not only were these people my believers, my source of power, and the ones responsible for my grade on my school test, but I needed them to fight the battles of this test for me.
Of course, what might not be a threat to the Arcantor Kingdom could still be used against other kingdoms...
But I'd have to worry about that later.
When I saw how the believers reacted to the new Internet update, I was very pleased.
There were students who had already set up message groups for Arcantor Magic School classes, study groups, research clubs, and even groups with their families.
These groups were places where these believers talked about various things, and without knowing it, they were giving away extremely valuable information about themselves.
Maybe not so valuable to them or to other people in this world, but to people in my old world, that information was more valuable than gold.
Being able to target publications from [Carrier Pigeon] or books from [Library] that a person tended to like could greatly increase that person's time on the Internet.
Unfortunately, I still didn't have any tools to interpret this data.
I thought about using my divine power to do something like this, developing an AI with big data to store and interpret this data whenever necessary, but the cost was extremely high.
So high that I think it would cost at least 7 figures just for a more rudimentary form of it, so I had to abandon that idea for the time being.
Of course, this was one of my top priorities for the future, but I couldn't waste my time in the present thinking about such unrealistic things.
Fortunately, the conversation data, the books the user read, and the time spent reading each book, all this data was stored for when I had a tool to interpret and reuse this data.
The cost of storing this data was very low, just a few hundred divine powers, so it wasn't a problem to store it, and even if the memory was full, I would only have to spend a few hundred divine powers to increase it.
This data was too valuable to just throw away, and even users wouldn't be happy if their conversations were deleted one day, right?
Since the three new features that the update brought to the Internet had been tested and approved by the users, not only had the average daily usage time of each user increased greatly, but the number of new users had also increased greatly as people invited others to use the Internet and try out the new things.
Especially those who had lost all their Internet Coins trying to get skins for [CardMasters], after realizing that they didn't even have Internet Coins to buy tokens to play, had to invite other people to get the 10 Internet Coins reward per invitation.
This made a very pleasant change to my status screen.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet
| Level: Embryonic deity rank 3
| Number of believers: 6,282 -> 8,794
| Average usage per user: 6 hours
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| Divine power: 8,828 / 40,000 -> 35,210 / 40,000
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Unfortunately, as much as the average usage time per user had increased, the number of new users was very high.
2,512 people accessed the Internet for the first time, and more than 99% of these people were ordinary people without any kind of magical ability.
These people could only use the Internet for 3 to 6 hours a day before becoming mentally overwhelmed if they didn't have any training, so it was inevitable that the overall average time spent on the Internet would drop a bit.
With constant Internet use, their Mental Power would gradually increase, but the increase wouldn't be as rapid.
But I wasn't worried, because even though I knew that the average would only decrease more and more since mages were very rare, it still meant that I would receive tens of thousands of Divine Power points every day, and the amount would increase more and more!
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