84 – Preparing to invade

Luna's introduction as an Idol was a complete success.

Although people still didn't know what an idol was and why it was so remarkable, including the leaders of the kingdoms and the other gods, they realized that the happiness of the people who had access to the Internet was much higher.

For the first time in months, the average time spent on the Internet had increased from 4 hours a day to 5 hours a day!

That's because people were really enjoying listening to the songs!

Making the lyrics simple in a way that people could understand and enjoy the emotions by understanding what was being said was a great move.

In this medieval world where music was only a form of entertainment for the nobility, with songs written in a way that only the most learned could understand and enjoy, releasing music to the masses was something that really appealed to people.

Sure, there were still people who didn't like the idea of commoners having access to music, thinking that it was something exclusive to nobles and that commoners would ruin it, but those people were in the minority.

Even more so after seeing that the Internet had complicated classical music just the way the nobles liked it, they were still happy to be the only ones who understood that style of music, leaving Luna's songs for the poor to enjoy while they met to discuss classical and classical music.

The next day after I released the songs, I received a message from Jaina.

[God of the Internet,

The troops of the kingdoms are gathered in Aetheris, ready to march on Galvaris. The commanders are only waiting for your order to launch the attack. I see no reason for further delay as all preparations are in place. Shall we proceed?]

I raised my eyebrows as I read Jaina's message.

[Don't they need to rest?] I asked curiously, since according to their schedule, they should have arrived in Aetheris today, and it would be counterproductive to launch an attack with troops tired from the journey.

[The first enemies we would face would only be weaker enemies from the land's border, to deal with this type of enemy, the wear and tear will not be great, so rest is not so necessary at this point]. She replied.

Considering what she said, I decided to use my newly developed AI to analyze the information on the Internet and understand Galvaris' situation.

Since Galvaris is a neighbor of Aetheris, just as the neighboring kingdoms of Arcantor received Internet access through word of mouth, Galvaris also received it from the people of Aetheris, giving me a few hundred users there.

Since Galvaris did not have an invasion initiative as intense as the neighboring kingdoms of Arcantor, the number of believers was still small, but it was enough to provide me with useful information.

[After analyzing the messages from the people on the Galvaris border, it was determined that the region's defenses have been significantly weakened by the chaos in the kingdom's major cities.

This collapse is a direct result of the fall of the Empire's god, as well as the appearance of strange red monsters, which, after cross-checking information, we have deduced to be demons.

The soldiers are unmotivated to work because they don't know what the situation is like in the kingdom's capital, they don't know how safe their families are, and they don't even know if they will receive the salary they are owed at the end of the month.

Since demons are a threat that the Lord has already shown an interest in dealing with, I recommend immediate attention to the possibility of strategic intervention].

After reading the summary of the AI's conclusion, I looked at the messages the AI read to interpret it, and I saw how useful it was to have this working.

The AI analyzed thousands of messages from Galvaris users and even Aetheris frontier users, among those messages there were several useless messages with little useful information, but by adding up all the little bits of information that leaked through the messages, the AI was able to deduce very important information for me and generate a useful response.

The process that the AI used took only a few seconds, whereas it would have taken me several minutes or even a few hours to analyze and interpret everything, which was a big improvement.

So I opened the conversation with Jaina and replied.

[Very well, send me the contact information of the commander of this army and I'll get in touch with him to organize it, just tell him about Athenos' identity and let him think he's talking to the envoy of the God of the Internet].

I was in Arcantor at the time, watching the launch of Luna's songs, but within minutes I was flying back to Aetheris.

The first thing I felt when I returned to Aetheris was the huge increase in the number of believers I had in that realm.

Aetheris had a population of 500-600k people, slightly larger than Arcantor.

When I left Aetheris two days ago, the kingdom had only 60,000 believers, but now that number had skyrocketed to over 340,000, with half the kingdom having become believers and new believers joining the Internet every second.

The main reason for this was the rapid expansion I had after dealing with the God of Thunder and directly taking over the capital of the kingdom, as well as the fact that the Internet already had the option of iMonsters available to city leaders, which caused them to quickly spread the Internet to the population of the major cities, which greatly accelerated the expansion.

Another thing that helped this spread was that I decided to have the [Arcantor National], which is currently the only newspaper on the Internet, spread the word about the demons, which made the noble city leaders even more eager to spread the Internet and strengthen their iMonsters.

At this point, I might even have to change the name of the app from [Arcantor National] to [Arcantor International], but that's something for the future Adrian to deal with.

My focus was now on the army in front of me.

A group of tens of thousands of people were camped outside a small town on the border of Aetheris.

They were all my followers, so it wasn't hard to find them.

[Hello, Lord Athenos, it is an honor to be in direct contact with you.

My name is Arthur Morris, and I am the commander of the combined army of the 4 kingdoms of the Internet God.

My lord, the troops of your kingdoms are ready and positioned in Aetheris. The army consists of 40,000 soldiers, divided equally between Arcantor, Eldoria, Novera, and Valoria, with each kingdom contributing 10,000 men.

In addition, Aetheris has brought an extra force of 20,000 soldiers, making a total of 60,000 soldiers ready to march under your command.

Right now, we're just waiting for your order to launch the attack on Galvaris].

When I read the man's message, I realized that among the tens of thousands of people, there were actually small separate groups, with four groups of 10,000 people and one group of 20,000 people.

Since the kingdom we were going to attack bordered Aetheris, it was obvious that they would be responsible for providing the largest army.

Even though they had just fought a war with Valoria, since this was the first request from the God of the Internet, they'd gone to great lengths to get those 20,000 people.

[Well done Arthur, the God of the Internet and I are following your journey to help you command the army, the God of the Internet has unlocked an option for you that is still being tested in Carrier Pigeon, all you have to do is...]

- Arthur Morris POV -

Looking at the screen in front of me, I was shocked.

As soon as Lord Athenos said that he and the God of the Internet were watching us, I felt a great weight fall on my shoulders, especially considering how important this invasion was to our allied kingdoms.

In so many years on our continent, I had never seen an alliance of three kingdoms, let alone an alliance of five kingdoms under a single leadership, and now that I was being watched by that leadership, I felt a tremendous pressure.

When I looked at the [Carrier Pigeon] chat screen for the new feature that Lord Athenos had explained to me, I quickly found it.

It was a symbol that Lord Athenos called a telephone.

In this icon, I could call anyone with Internet and chat by voice without having to type the content of the message!

Even though I was used to typing on the Internet, I still spent at least a minute typing my message in the book, and with this feature it would be much easier!

What's more, Lord Athenos created an option where I could say things on the Internet and choose who would listen!

If I wanted to give orders to the captains below me, I could say it and only they would hear it, or if I wanted everyone to hear it, everyone would hear it!

It was incredible!

Just one tool like that would raise the level of our battle by several notches!

Not to mention that the captains below me would also have access to it to command their soldiers, it would raise our discipline and coordination to a level that no other army could match!

And most importantly, the honor of knowing that we were testing something that no one else had access to on the Internet was very interesting; when the soldiers knew that they had an exclusive resource, their morale would surely rise even higher!

So, on Lord Athenos' orders, I started explaining this functionality to the soldiers, and within an hour we were ready to march.

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