78 – Very useful!
- King Victor Pov -
Many would call me crazy after what I've done, and maybe even Victor from the past would call me crazy after seeing what I've become.
Unlike before, with a rosy, healthy body, long blond hair and a great reputation to uphold in my kingdom, all that has changed now.
Sitting on my throne, my body was now completely different, with white, brittle and dry hair, my skin was a pale, lifeless red, my blue eyes were now completely black, while two small horns were growing on my forehead.
My great reputation in Zephyros was completely ruined after the sacrifice of more than 10,000 people that I carried out last night.
Just like me, all my soldiers and servants in the royal castle had that morbid expression and red skin.
We had all become demons.
Unlike me, who became a demon of my own free will to take revenge on the bastard God of Sea Winds who killed my wife while trying to show how big his dick was by coming to my kingdom, my soldiers and servants were forced by me to become demons or they would be sacrificed to me.
There were a few fools who refused, but after I used the new power I received from becoming a demon and controlled their minds to make them kill themselves in front of everyone, the other soldiers understood that there was no way to deal with me and quickly surrendered to me again.
Even though I had already destroyed the Sea Wind God's consciousness and freed my kingdom from the boy's control, I felt that with my new power, I could conquer the whole planet!
I had already killed one god, how hard could it be to kill another?
But I was no fool.
Just as the gods needed the prayers of mortals to become stronger, now that I had become a demon, I needed the sacrifices and blood of other mortals to become stronger.
The sacrifice of the 10,000 people yesterday was enough to raise me from a rank 1 embryonic demon to rank 2, increasing my strength and control of my demonic power by 10%!
To increase my rank again, I would have to sacrifice twice as many people, which was no problem at all!
As I left the rest of the sacrifice to my soldiers, their strength also increased, which would make it even easier for us to organize the next sacrifice.
Since the population of Zephyros was 437,000, and Galvaris, the neighboring kingdom that the God of the Sea Winds had conquered before I killed him, had another 300,000 people, I already had at least 737,000 people to sacrifice!
Each rank would increase my strength by 10%, so after sacrificing these two kingdoms, I would already have more than enough strength to deal with the gods of the neighboring kingdoms... so it would only be a matter of time before I became the emperor of the entire planet!
Smiling, I imagined myself sitting on a throne made of flesh and blood while the greatest warriors of the planets knelt before me.
"Men, prepare the next sacrifice." I said in a hoarse, cold voice with a smile on my lips.
The only thing I wanted to feel right now was the feeling of getting stronger, and nothing could stop me from achieving that.
Especially if some of my soldiers gather enough demonic power to become embryonic demons like me, with an army of embryonic demons no god will be able to control me!
- Adrian's POV -
By now the AI had been running for 8 hours and the mortals were asleep.
Since I had become an Elemental God, the amount of sleep I needed per night was less than when I was just an Embryonic Divinity, so even if I didn't sleep for a day or two in the Divine World, it wouldn't negatively affect me in any way.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were few mortals using the Internet, I focused my attention on the data that the AI had analyzed from [Carrier Pigeon], and I was quite satisfied.
The data was divided into several categories.
What users like best: Entertainment-oriented fiction, Entertainment-oriented history books, Personal development books, Magical knowledge books, Agricultural knowledge books, Knowledge books...
What users are less interested in: Books on abstract philosophy, Books on erudite poetry, Books on politics...
What users are interested in, but can't find in the [Library]: Books on warrior training, Books on poisonous plants, Books on...
Although there was a large list of raw data, I knew I had to be careful with it.
That's because even though the AI had sorted it in a way that seemed very correct, there were still some caveats.
For example, books about politics might seem uninteresting and of little use to the 1.8 million users on the Internet, since only a small percentage of users were interested in those books, but considering that the reading rate and liking for those books was very high among the nobility, this showed that in the niche that this book was trying to please, it was very well liked.
So I knew that I had to do a little more tweaking to the AI before I could use the data it gave me as if it were 100% accurate.
I had to put in some filters and have the AI analyze user profiles and determine what group this data belonged to, so that I would know the true approval of Internet content.
But even if there were mistakes, like the political books, there were also successes, like the need for warrior training books, something I didn't think much about because I didn't remember it.
So I quickly requested books on the subject from the teachers, and soon I had dozens of books to digitize and put online for my followers.
The pricing system I used for these books followed the same logic as the magician's books.
As a test, I even asked the AI to notify only the users who showed interest in this subject to see what the result was, and to my surprise, 80% of the users that the AI identified as interested in this type of subject actually opened the [Library] and spent a lot of time studying and analyzing these books, showing that the AI's target audience identification was already decent.
Even if the AI got 20% of the audience wrong, it showed that it was going in the right direction.
So I decided to let the AI focus on [Library] for another full day and improve itself a bit before enabling it to use [Carrier Pigeon], which had a lot of information for it to analyze.
Unfortunately, by using such a heavy AI in the use of Divine Power, the cost of using the Internet was also heavy, causing my profit from 0.75 Divine Power points per hour of user use to drop to 0.65 Divine Power points per hour.
This was considering that the AI was still only working on [Library], which was the application with one of the smallest amounts of data that the AI had to deal with.
If I applied this to all the apps, it was possible that the Divine Power gain per hour would drop even further, maybe even below 0.5 Divine Power points.
So I had to focus on optimizing this as much as possible and just release the AI on the Internet bit by bit.
Fortunately, the cost of Divine Power to develop the AI was now much lower, so my profit was much higher at the end of the day.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet
| Level: Elemental God rank 1
| Number of believers: 1,871,412 -> 1,954,927
| Average usage per user: 4 hours
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| Available deities: Creativity, Waves, Fear.
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| Divine Skills: Blessed Prayer.
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| Divine Power: 3,037,132 / 25,600,000 -> 6,002,162 / 25,600,000 (+5,082,550 -1,101,010 [AI development] -1,016,510 [20%])
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Even though I spent Divine Power to develop this AI and lost a portion of my potential profit for every prayer, I knew that developing it would be extremely useful to me.
Mainly because I began to notice that the average user time was slowly increasing due to the small changes I was making to the website based on the AI's analysis suggestions.
Changes to the [Library] interface to make things less confusing, information clearer, some parts more refined and graceful, meant that the average usage time of this app went up by 10% in just two days of testing.
If I use it all over the Internet, even if the cost of Divine Power goes up, if I raise my average to 5 prayers a day for each believer, my profit would go up a lot, completely compensating for the higher cost now.
So I was very happy with it.
What I didn't know at the time was that my period of peace and quiet would soon be interrupted by an urgent message from Jaina with news of magi from other kingdoms because of the demon invasions.
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