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God of Internet [LitRPG] by NunuXD
17 - Visit of an Archmage
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The day before, 20 more people had enrolled in Father Robert's school, bringing the total number of students to 120 and forcing him to divide the classes into two classes of 60, which was the maximum capacity of the church.
All the students sat in the pews with an Internet textbook open in front of them while Father Robert tried to explain it in the most entertaining way possible!
When he got lost in the explanation, Amber would help him, so the dynamic between the two of them was very good for helping these illiterate commoners.
Although the vast majority of the students were 100% illiterate commoners, there were still a few who could read very poorly who also came to learn, and finally, there was that strange woman who sat in the back row and made all the commoners ignore her.
When I saw the way that woman acted and how no one noticed how strange she was, it caught my attention.
From her purple clothes, I could already guess that she was from some kind of noble lineage, since purple paint was extremely difficult to make, making it expensive enough that no commoner could afford to buy or wear something like that.
Considering the stereotypes I had from my old world, her outfit reminded me a lot of the cloaks of mages from the roleplaying games I played, and from the color of it, it wasn't impossible to deduce that she was a high-ranking mage.
When I analyzed her more closely, I could actually sense a great deal of magical power within her, which made me even more curious about her identity.
But I didn't intend to do anything.
She was just quietly listening to the lecture like the other ordinary people.
Although she didn't pray to me to look at the textbook, she did look at the book of the student next to her with interest, which was no reason to chase her away from the class, so I just watched.
Counting Robert and Amber, there were 62 Internet books open at the same time in the church, which gave me a powerful channel to observe what was going on in the church.
Looking at the people around him, Robert explained about the letters. "Let's go to the letter C." He said as he pointed to the letter C in the book in his hand, causing the students' books to also show the large letter C. "This is C. Make the sound with me: 'Ce.'"
Hearing this, the students repeated it with him, just as they had with the previous two letters, A and B. "Ce."
Hearing them repeat the letter, Robert had a big proud smile on his face, for everyone was really dedicated and wanted to learn, even though some had more difficulty than others. "Well done. Now look at this picture." He said as he pointed to the book that showed a picture of a castle. "This is a castle. Castle starts with C. Everyone say 'castle.'"
Seeing that this letter was used to write the word castle, some students were surprised and repeated what he asked.
With the help of the book showing the letter and pictures representing things, it became much easier for them to learn the meaning of the letters.
Unlike the children who went to school in my old world because they were forced to, without much interest in learning things, the adults knew that they were doing it for their own good, so their interest in learning was much greater.
Although their memories weren't as good as children's, their dedication made up for it.
With the exercises in the books for them to practice right after learning a letter, their learning speed was even faster.
The lesson lasted two hours, and at the end Robert asked them to practice with some homework, which no one thought was a bad thing, and soon everyone left satisfied.
Robert was very excited to teach so many people, but his throat was getting very tired from talking for so long.
But when the church was empty, the woman in the purple cloak was no longer hidden among the people, and Amber quickly noticed her.
Startled by the color of her clothes, Amber quickly nudged Father Robert and pointed at the woman.
Seeing the woman, Father Robert was also shocked and quickly approached the woman humbly.
"Hello Lady Archmage, forgive this old man for not noticing you before, is there anything I can help you with?" Robert asked as he bowed.
Waving her hand, the woman motioned for him to stand as she spoke. "It was of my own volition that you didn't notice me here. We at the Arcantor Magic School recently learned about the Internet, and I came to see for myself."
Hearing this, Robert's heartbeat quickened.
He was afraid that Arcantor Magic School didn't like the Internet and wanted to stop it, which worried him.
"What did Lady Archmage think about the Internet?" He asked worriedly.
"Fascinating, it follows very well the mages' principles that information is extremely important and that people should become more and more knowledgeable." She said with a slight smile on her face. "And your initiative to teach people to read is very much in line with what we need at the Arcantor Magic School, because if the new magical disciples already know how to read, it will advance the basic education of the commoners by several months."
Hearing this, Robert and Amber were relieved.
"But I still have some doubts about the Internet, and I'd like to know if it's possible to contact the God of the Internet directly." She said in a firm tone.
Hearing this, Robert was startled and realized that maybe things weren't as easy as he had imagined.
"I can't contact the God of the Internet directly, but I can contact the emissary of the God of the Internet." He said humbly.
"That would be nice." She said calmly.
Hearing this, Robert quickly opened the [Carrier Pigeon] and sent a message to 'Athenos'.
When I saw his messages come in, he explained the whole situation to me.
I waited for him to explain everything until I finally went down to the marble statue.
As my consciousness entered the statue, the Archmage stared at me with great curiosity, but when my consciousness was fully in this avatar, her eyebrows furrowed.
I could imagine why, because now that I was in a physical body, it was easier for me to compare our powers.
Although I was only a Rank 1 Embryonic Divinity, my current power was slightly greater than hers, a true Archmage, the pinnacle of magical power in this world.
"Your Excellency Athenos, this humble old man is bothering you again..." Robert said humbly as he bowed to me.
Smiling reassuringly at him, I simply waved my hand and made him stand up.
"Don't worry Robert, I believe this conversation is very important to the Internet God, you did a great job calling me." I said.
Robert put a small smile on his face when he heard that.
"Is there somewhere more private we can talk?" I asked him as he waved at me and the Archmage.
"Yes sir, please come with me." He said as he quickly led us into a simple living room of the house he lived in within the church.
After the Archmage and I entered the room, Robert bowed and left the room, leaving the two of us alone to talk.
"Okay, now that we have some privacy, I'm curious, what are your questions?" I asked curiously.
Nodding her head, she gently removed the hood from her head, revealing her face.
Jaina had the appearance of a 28 year old woman, with long braided blonde hair, deep blue eyes and smooth skin like someone who had taken care of it with various expensive products.
Considering that there were no skin care products in this world, I deduced that this could be the result of magic.
"First of all, I am Archmage Jaina Prodstone, one of the three Archmages of Arcantor. I think I'm talking to the God of the Internet himself right now, right?" she asked suspiciously, looking at me with a slight mistrust.
Smiling, I nodded. Plebeians might actually believe that I'm just an envoy of the Internet God, but for people who might know more about gods, apart from someone like her who can sense my power, it's understandable that she would already deduce that I'm the Internet God himself.
"Yes, I am the real God of the Internet, Adrian Innovashine, but in this world I would appreciate it if you would just call me Athenos." I explained honestly.
Realizing that I was being honest and easy to talk to, I noticed that Jaina was becoming more relaxed with me as well.
"Why are you acting like a messenger of God instead of acting like the God of the Internet himself?" She asked confused.
I nodded my head, imagining that this might be one of her doubts. "As a god, the most important thing is to keep my form divine and mysterious, which will allow believers to imagine me as they wish, making their faith more intense. If they see me as someone who looks like them, the mystery will disappear and so will their faith.
Hearing this, Jaina was surprised that I had actually said this to her. "Aren't you afraid to tell me this?"
I just shook my head with a confident smile. "What I told you was to show you my sincerity, but I'm still a god, even if some people know about me or about a possible 'weakness' of mine and try to spread something bad about me to defame me, I have my means to deal with it, and more importantly, to fight back."
Hearing what I said, Jaina felt my power and thought about the influence I was getting in such a short time and realized that dealing with me would be much more difficult than just spreading the word that Athenos was the God of the Internet.
Not to mention that it would be completely counterproductive to use information that I had willingly given as a form of trust to try to attack me.
Especially considering the possible retaliation I could take and the lack of knowledge she had about gods, she realized that it would be stupid to try to antagonize me completely for no reason.
So, after hearing what I said, she nodded again and finally started talking about her purpose as a representative of the Arcantor Magic School.
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"I look forward to working with you, Jaina Proudstone." I said, extending my hand with a smile.
Jaina shook my hand back and nodded in agreement. "I also hope for good cooperation, Lord Athenos, I will pass this information on to the other Archmages and send you an answer as soon as possible."
I nodded and watched her leave.
When I saw Father Robert and Amber looking at me worriedly, I assured them that everything was fine and that they didn't have to worry about Arcantor Magic School.
This made them very relieved, so I talked to them some more and gave them some tips for the classes before I left the mortal world.
My talk with Jaina was quite productive.
Apparently, the government of Arcantor had known about the War of the Gods taking place on this world for many years, possibly from one of the teachers who had come to this world to prepare the students for it.
So I confirmed to Jaina that this war would indeed take place and that each kingdom had been given a god, only the gods of the best kingdoms would remain in this world, and obviously the kingdoms under these gods would be the kingdoms that would benefit the most from all of this.
Of course, I didn't give much information about the divine world, let alone say that we were just students at a school playing with our lives like it was a game.
But even without saying it, I could sense that Jaina already realized that her life wasn't that valuable to the gods, but that only served to make her appreciate me even more, since despite my powers and the influence I could achieve, I was still humble and treated them with respect.
With this discussion, it was decided that the government of Arcantor would not prevent the Internet from spreading throughout the country, but as for their participation in the war, they would have to discuss it with the other archmages before giving me a final answer.
I wasn't worried about the answer, because if they didn't cooperate with me, the only thing left for them would be destruction, since the other gods had set their sights on destroying this kingdom.
So I didn't worry about it and just started looking at the data on the Internet.
And I was very pleased with what I saw.
The number of believers, which was 435 the night before, rose to 770 today, an increase of 77% in just one day!
The Divine Power points I received that day also increased by 79%, giving me 2,335 Divine Power points in a single day!
For a normal god to receive this amount in a month, he would need 583 worshipers, since one prayer was equivalent to 1 Divine Power Point for the other gods.
For the 2,335 Divine Power Points I received in one day, other gods needed 17,512 believers, while I only had 770 believers and received the same amount!
Of course, that's considering that the believers prayed to the other gods an average of 4 times a month, which was normal according to what my teacher said several times, while for me that average prayer was 6 times a day!
That might not sound like much, but if a god ruled a country like Arcantor with a population of 500,000, and managed to get 50% of those people to become believers, that would mean an income of 1,000,000 Divine Power Points per month from 250,000 believers, which was more than enough for the god to rise from an embryonic deity to an elemental deity in a few time.
Of course, this was considering that the god hadn't spent any of the Divine Power Points on battles or anything like that.
Since the god's power was based on his Divine Power, it was understandable that the god would always keep a reserve of Divine Power for battles and emergencies instead of spending it all on evolution.
The more Divine Power the god had, the more powerful the attacks could be, but 1,000 Divine Power points of a rank 1 embryonic deity and 1,000 Divine Power points of a rank 2 embryonic deity had different powers.
It was up to the god to calculate whether it was more worthwhile to store Divine Power or spend it to evolve.
Looking at my character screen, I was satisfied with what I saw.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet,
| Level: Embryonic Divinity Rank 1
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| Divine Power: 3,215 / 10,000 -> 5,550 / 10,000 (+2,335)
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I already had more than 50% of the Divine Power points needed to move up a rank, and at the rate I was gaining Divine Power points, it would only be a matter of days before I moved up to Rank 2.
Considering that the test would take 30 days in the divine world and 60 days in the mortal world, it was likely that the other gods would only be able to move up one or two ranks, while I... I felt that I would be able to advance much more than that!
The average time users spent on the Internet was still only 3 hours a day, old users were using it longer, but new users were still cautious about using it.
Something I had already imagined would happen.
So I didn't worry too much about it.
As time went on, the usage rate would increase.
In terms of applications, [CardMasters] managed to overtake [Library] as the most used application by users.
Of the users' usage time, 60% was spent on [CardMasters], 30% on [Library], and only 10% on [Carrier Pigeon].
Since [Carrier Pigeon] was a text-only social network and the vast majority of users were illiterate, its usage was the lowest among the three applications.
It was followed by [Library], which also relied on users to read.
Only [CardMasters] had a large number of users because it didn't require users to be literate.
The next day, I realized that even though Father Robert's lessons were very good compared to the way this world teaches, people's learning speed wasn't as good as I needed it to be.
The test would end in 54 days, and at the rate Robert was teaching, he would hardly be able to make more than 500 people literate by the end of the test...
I needed a way to speed this up...
Back in the divine world, I thought of all the ways I could help mortals learn faster.
The first idea I had was online classes, but the cost of transmitting audio or even video over the Internet was still too high for me... my control of Divine Power as a rank 1 Embryonic Divinity was very low, I would need to raise my rank a few times before I could do something like that without losing.
So I'd have to find another way to solve it...
Thinking back to the lessons I'd had, most of the classes at the Divinity School taught about combat methods and ways to gain the faith of mortals as quickly as possible.
But none of that would help me now.
"It's not like I'm in a war and I can bless a mortal..." But I interrupted my own sentence when I realized that there was a possibility that this could work.
"Blessing, I can bless a mortal, right? What's the limit of a blessing?" I asked myself excitedly.
One of the classes we had was about blessings, and the teacher gave the example of a god with the divinity of fire who could bless a mortal warrior so that he would know how to control the fire in his sword and become a legendary warrior!
This was a great way to create myths and legends among the faithful, making the name of that god much more appealing to mortals, since everyone wanted to receive such blessings.
But blessings were like powers of the gods, the more powerful they were, the more expensive they were in Divine Power Points.
So I couldn't use such a blessing on Robert?
As long as I gave him a blessing that what he taught would be learned many times faster by other people, it could speed up the literacy rate of Arcantor's population even more!
The capital of Arcantor has a population of 130,000, if Robert can teach these people to read and pray in a short time, even if I have to use a lot of divine power, it will quickly come back to me!
But just to be sure, I decided to ask the school for books on blessings so that I could study them as much as possible and make sure that I could use them in the best way possible and get as much out of them as I needed!
While my main body was studying Blessings in the divine world, my consciousness in the mortal world received a call from Jaina via [Carrier Pigeon], possibly about the outcome of her discussion with the other archmages.
This came at a great time, because there's nothing better to get a great teaching place for Robert than from the rulers of Arcantor themselves, right?
So I quickly opened my Internet and looked at her message.
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When I opened the conversation with Jaina about [Carrier Pigeon], I started laughing when I saw the way she wrote this.
[Jaina Proudstone: Dear Lord Athenos,
I hope this letter finds your lordship in good health and spirits. I am writing to inform you of recent developments in our esteemed Magic Council.
After deliberation and careful consideration of the points you raised in our last conversation, the Council members have decided by consensus to support the Internet God in the Kingdom of Arcantor. We offer our unwavering support and commitment to spreading this innovative blessing, the Internet, among the students of the Arcantor School of Magic.
However, we make this commitment on the condition that the benefits mentioned by Your Lordship during our conversation are strictly adhered to. We trust in Your Lordship's good faith and look forward to seeing the fruits of this alliance.
With warmest regards and best wishes,
Jaina Proudstone, Archmage of the Magic Council of Arcantor].
Despite the intense use of extremely complex and tedious language, the content was clear: they had approved our partnership as long as I fulfilled the benefits I offered them.
Those benefits were an app for the Kingdom of Arcantor, where official government posts could be made on that app, and all nobles and commoners would have direct access to government orders.
Also, an Arcantor Magic School App, with an internet library that teachers could fill with books that only Arcantor Magic School students could access.
Exclusive forums for students and teachers.
Personalized teaching materials, such as Father Robert's literacy course.
Class schedules and school events.
Lunar cycles and important reminders so that each of these events could be used in the study of magic.
And many other features.
Of course, the features of this app were all invented by me beforehand, as I thought about the possibilities of apps that I could bring into this world.
With each new feature of the app that I talked about and how it could help the students of Arcantor Magic School, Jaina got more and more excited, and I'm sure that was one of the main reasons why the other archmages accepted this proposal, because they saw that I was really sincere and dedicated to help them as well.
I had some other ideas for the Arcantor Magic School app, but it was better to just release the app with these six current functions, because the difference from one or two functions is very big, but six functions to ten functions isn't that remarkable.
The best way to keep their gratitude was to introduce the new features over time, showing that I'm constantly thinking about how to help them.
With their support, I would have guaranteed at least 3,000 more educated users, not to mention the noble family members of the students, the wizards who have already graduated from Arcantor Magic School and work for the government, who would know about it...
Looking at my 5,550 available Divine Power Points, I had to sigh before I started spending them on developing the new app.
The Arcantor Kingdom App was very cheap, as it was just a simple website where new users could register with Jaina to be able to post there, with sessions divided into districts, the largest being the National District, then this would be divided into smaller districts for lesser nobles, covering the entire chain of command of the kingdom.
The cost of this application is only 400 Divine Power Points.
The Arcantor Magic School app, on the other hand, was more expensive, especially since I got carried away while working on the customization part of the app...
The feature part of the app alone cost me 1,000 Divine Power Points, and the customization part was another 400 Divine Power Points, the same cost as making the entire Arcantor Kingdom app.
The problem with this was that I thought it would be interesting to put customizations on the student's profile and on the page itself, based on the mage's magic realm.
If he was an Apprentice Mage, his app would be all white, for an Arcane Mage, light blue customizations would be unlocked, both for his profile and for the appearance of the app itself.
Master Mages would unlock navy blue customizations, Sage Mages would have red customizations, and finally Archmages would have purple customizations.
I thought of this as a way to let mages show off their prestige, and considering how vain mages have always been in all the media I've seen, I think this would be a good reason to encourage them to rank up even more.
It's not that having more powerful mages would be a bad thing for me, since these mages would be my soldiers in the coming war.
So at the end of the day, I spent 1,800 Divine Power Points to develop the two apps, and as soon as the apps were finished and I posted this, the Arcantor Magic School started to spread the word online to the students, and a group of employees started to copy the books onto the Internet.
To speed up this process, I decided to add an option where the user could pray to the God of the Internet and scan the book in front of them directly to the Internet.
The cost of this to me was 1 Divine Power Point, which didn't bring me any profit, but having more books in the Internet database in the long run would be a great way to get users to spend more time on the Internet.
Since mages used mind and spirit training, their mental power was much stronger than that of normal people, which meant that they could pray many times more than normal people per day, which meant that mages could spend much more time on the Internet!
"Attention, students!" A teacher said in a calm, authoritative voice in the middle of a classroom at Arcantor Magic School as soon as he entered.
Hearing the teacher's voice, the students quickly sat down in their seats and remained quiet.
At the Arcantor Magic School, any kind of disrespect towards the teacher was frowned upon, especially since the teachers were all at least master magicians, the young magic students didn't dare to offend any teacher.
Seeing the students' silence, the teacher was satisfied and nodded.
"Before today's lesson, I'd like to ask you all a question, does anyone here know about the Internet?" He asked as he looked at the students.
Hearing this, some students quickly looked at each other, while the vast majority were confused by this question.
Seeing that no one dared to answer, the teacher rephrased the question. "Don't be afraid, this book of mine is also from the Internet, so you can admit it without fear. As soon as he said that, the teacher picked up the navy blue book with a beautiful cover that said "Arcantor Magic School!
When the students who didn't know anything about the Internet saw the delicate book with a cover that looked like a work of art in the teacher's hand, they became very curious.
But three students' eyes lit up when they saw it, and they quickly raised their hands.
Looking at these three students, the teacher was surprised to see that they were the three students who had shown the most improvement in class over the past few days.
I seem to have found the reason for these three's sudden improvement...' the teacher thought. The teacher thought as he shook his head.
As someone who only learned about the Internet last night, Dalton was fascinated by the magic knowledge available on the Internet, even more so when he was given access to the [Arcantor Magic School App], with so many useful features, Dalton realized that this was the future of magic!
To the point that he spent at least 6 hours surfing the Internet and reading in his dorm room, leaving only 2 hours to sleep before class.
But because he was a magician, he didn't need as much sleep as normal people, so he was now able to perform in front of the students with composure.
When Dalton noticed that the three students who already had access to the Internet had improved significantly compared to the students who didn't have access to the Internet, he was even more certain that introducing the Internet to the other students would surely improve their learning efficiency.
So he explained the Internet to the other students and taught them the prayer to the God of the Internet so that they could use it as well, before finally giving them access to the [Arcantor Magic School App].
When the students saw the white book in their hands and saw that the book in the teacher's hand was navy blue, just like his master magician's robe, the students felt even more motivated to learn.
As they listened to the explanation of all the functions of the Internet and the [Arcantor Magic School App], their eyes lit up.
Especially for students whose parents were nobles who lived far away, it was incredible to know that they could communicate with their parents so easily via the Internet without using any magic power!
So with the help of the Arcantor Magic School, in just one night, all the teachers learned about the Internet, and the next morning, all the students learned about it and became new believers.
The number of believers, which was 993 before the Arcantor Magic School started spreading the word about the Internet, suddenly jumped to 4,704, and it started rising even faster by the end of the day!
And to make me even more excited, my main body had finally finished studying the Blessing, and I had a viable way to help Robert teach people to read even faster!
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