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God of Internet [LitRPG] by NunuXD
30 - Employee benefits
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Since I had already developed the [Arcantor Magic School App], using it as the basis for developing the [School] app made the development process much easier.
Of course, there were features of the [School] app that didn't need to be copied from the original app, such as the library feature, but since I planned to make this app completely free, I didn't need to make users spend Internet Coins to buy access to books.
All the books that users would need would be available in the [Library] app to read for free at any time.
It's not even like I'd need people's Internet Coins for anything, since I could generate them endlessly for myself or whomever I wanted.
The only problem I thought keeping the school public might bring is that it would cut off Robert's source of income, but I wouldn't have to stop him from continuing to teach people.
Those who wanted more in-depth instruction or had questions could continue to pay 2 copper coins a week to have access to Robert's classes as usual, as well as to ask him questions outside of class time.
This way, Robert would have a steady source of income and the commoners who were most interested in learning to read faster would have a place to learn even faster and ask questions.
As for the textbooks, I already had several books that I had prepared for Robert and made available in the [Library] app; I could just develop a few more books and create a shortcut in the [School] app that would take the students directly to the textbooks with the exact page that the class needed, making the process as easy as possible for the students.
I even thought of charging students 2 copper coins to use the [School] app, but I thought that would be limiting not only to people who could possibly learn to read and use the Internet even more every day, but also to people who lived outside the capital.
The people in the small villages that Rosalind visited could never learn to read if they never came to the capital to pay two copper coins every week to use the app, so I just got rid of that restriction.
With this set, the development of the app went very fast, so that it was ready to use in less than an hour.
The only new unique thing I developed for this app was the functionality to allow teachers to record and publish lessons.
Since recording lessons would use up my Divine Power, I had to make it as controlled as possible so that no one I didn't trust could access it.
I even added safeguards, such as a limit on how much Divine Power this feature could use in a day, so that it wouldn't become a weakness for me and drain my Divine Power without me noticing.
The biggest change I had to make to the app was on the design side, because while the [Arcantor Magic School App] was developed with educated users in mind, I had to greatly simplify the [School] app's interface so that everyone could use it even if they couldn't read.
With everything ready, I waited for Robert to return to the church and flew with my conscience to the marble body in the church.
As Father Robert entered the church, despite his fatigue, I noticed the sparkle in his eyes at how excited he was to be teaching these people.
"Who would have thought that over 200 people would gather to hear this old man speak, Amber..." He sighed with a proud smile.
"Yes, Father Robert, I too was surprised at how many people showed up to attend the class. Did you notice that even people who didn't know about the Internet were willing to listen to the class and learn from you?" Amber asked excitedly.
Robert nodded his head and continued to smile. "Yes... I believe that what caught their attention was the blessing of the Lord God of the Internet, who made them feel that my explanation was simpler than they had imagined and aroused their interest in learning."
Listening to their conversation, I laughed inwardly and felt that this was very interesting.
It was good to know that the two of them enjoyed teaching the commoners, because it helped me tremendously!
When Robert and Amber saw me coming towards them, they were shocked to see me here and quickly shook themselves out of their relaxed posture and stood up straighter.
"Lord Athenos!" Robert said worriedly. "Was there a problem?" He asked.
Amber was worried too, but bowed her head slightly in respect when she saw me.
"There's no problem Robert, in fact I'm here to tell you some great news." I said smiling politely.
As soon as I said this, I noticed the curiosity on both of their faces and I didn't keep them in the dark.
"The God of the Internet is so pleased with your dedication to teaching illiterate believers that he has created an application to make your job even easier." I said, referring to the God of the Internet as if he were someone else.
Upon hearing this, Robert and Amber were completely shocked.
Since they had been using the Internet for the past few days, they were already familiar with the term 'app', so they knew exactly what I was talking about.
"Are you serious, Lord Athenos? Did the God of the Internet create an app to help us in our mission to teach the faithful?" Robert asked incredulously.
Smiling, I nodded and a floating screen appeared in front of me.
This was the way I always used my Divine Power, both the Internet and the status screen I created to display my data, just a simple blue holographic screen floating in front of me.
But noticing Robert and Amber's shock, I realized that this was probably the first time I had used it in front of them.
I didn't worry about it and just waved for them to come over to my side.
With curiosity in their eyes, they both approached me and I pointed to the new app icon on my screen.
The app was there in the middle right, next to the [Arcantor Magic School App].
[Carrier Pigeon]
[Library]
[CardMasters]
[Arcantor National]
[Arcantor Magic School App]
[School]
"Wasn't that just one app, Lord Athenos? Why are there two new apps on your Internet?" Amber couldn't help but ask.
Realizing that she had spoken, Amber froze and ducked her head, afraid that she had offended me.
Noticing this, Robert was also startled and was about to speak for her to me.
Normally, nobles hated to interact with commoners, so it was understandable that they thought I might be offended by something like this.
Of course, I wasn't worried about such a silly thing, so I calmly replied after thinking about her question.
"Actually, the [Arcantor Magic School App] has been available for a few days now, but only the teachers and students of the Arcantor Magic School have access to it. Since you both work for the God of the Internet, I don't think it would be a problem to give you access to this app as well," I said. I said as I waved my hand.
As soon as I waved it, the books in their hands quickly issued a notification, and when they opened them, they saw that there were indeed two new apps in their books.
"Lord Athenos, is there any problem giving us access to something as exclusive as an app for the Magic School?" Robert asked, genuinely concerned.
I just shook my head. "You're a priest of the Church of the Internet God, so it's only fair that you get some benefits from the Internet God himself for using the Internet, right? Just don't do anything inappropriate on the application. If you want to read the Arcantor Magic School books, you can pay Internet Coins and read them just like the Magic School students."
Upon hearing this, Robert was impressed, but Amber was truly shocked.
As a young girl, she had dreamed of becoming a powerful magician, to the point that she practiced magic every night before going to sleep, using the excuse that it was so that she could pray more to the God of the Internet with the extra mental power she had developed from this training.
But she knew she was doing it for the dream of becoming a real magician.
Now that she even had the right to read books from the Arcantor Magic School's exclusive library, Amber felt extremely grateful to the Persona of Athenos and the God of the Internet for making this possible.
But I didn't worry about it and started explaining to them how the application [School] worked.
When they heard that the 'God of the Internet' was willing to spend more divine power than he would earn so that the commoners could learn to read and write, I could see the emotion welling up in them.
They were both extremely grateful and said that they would be willing to record as many hours of lessons as I wanted every day to help the Internet God as much as possible.
Shaking my head, I explained that they would only need to record one hour's lesson a day and post it separately according to the level of knowledge the students should have for that audio before posting it for all Internet users to hear.
When Robert heard that his lesson would be listened to by thousands of people every day, he even started to get nervous, but with me and Amber there to calm him down, the old man plucked up courage and decided to try recording the lessons as I had suggested.
The preparation time for the lesson was a bit long, so I let the two of them prepare what they were going to record while I looked at how the Internet was developing in the kingdom of Arcantor.
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God of Internet [LitRPG] by NunuXD
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As soon as the White Hawk trading caravan arrived in the village, I was confused as to why they all had such beautiful books to carry around with them.
At first, I thought that these books were just displayed to show off and show how rich they were, but when I saw the book cover change before my eyes, and then I saw the white cloak on young Rosalind's body, I realized that these books could be magical artifacts!
This actually served to intimidate me perfectly, as I had seen very few magicians in my 50 years of life, let alone magicians using magical artifacts in front of me.
But unlike the other magicians I'd met, Rosalind was much nicer and more humble to me, treating me like a normal person, not humiliating me, offering fair prices for the goods she offered to sell, and even buying our products at fair prices.
Of course, despite how polite and nice she was to me, I wouldn't take advantage of that to ask about the magic artifact.
I lived to be 50 because I knew what to talk about and what not to talk about.
Unfortunately, the children didn't...
When Matilda, a little girl of 6, saw the delicate book in the hand of one of the guards change from a cover with a drawing of a cute pigeon carrying letters in its mouth to the artwork of an imposing wizard controlling dragons of fire and ice, Matilda's curiosity took control of her mouth and she simply asked.
"Sir, why has the cover of your book suddenly become so beautiful?" Matilda's curious voice was heard in the area, causing not only me, but also Matilda's parents and the other villagers living with us to freeze and worry.
I looked at the big warrior with the book as I approached the little girl, even though it might offend them, I couldn't let them do anything bad to the innocent little girl.
But to my surprise, the warrior showed no anger and explained with a polite smile.
"That's because this is no ordinary book." The man explained.
"Thank you for the information Lord Warrior, I apologize for the little girl's rude question..." I said as I lowered my head, trying to defuse the situation even more.
Fortunately, the man didn't want to pursue the matter, but the voice of young Rosalind, the leader of this trade caravan, came to us and asked.
"What happened, Harris?"
"The little girl was curious about the book on the Internet, Lady Rosalind." The man replied politely to the young girl.
Hearing this, Rosalind raised her eyebrow in surprise and shifted her gaze to little Matilda.
Seeing this made me even more worried.
If the chances of dealing with a warrior like Harris were slim, dealing with Rosalind was practically impossible, since she was a mage, an identity almost as high as that of a noble in our kingdom...
At that point, I could only hope that she was as magnanimous as the warrior.
When a book like the warrior's appeared in her hand out of nowhere, I felt my heart squeeze even tighter with worry, while Matilda's eyes shone even brighter with excitement.
"Are you curious about the book, little girl?" Rosalind asked.
Matilda didn't think much about it and just nodded.
"This book contains many important things, such as knowledge about how to read and write, knowledge about how to plant more efficiently, about how to prepare delicious food dishes, fun games, and even knowledge about magic, so that one day you could try to become a wizard like me." Rosalind said as she held the book in one hand and made a small ball of fire appear in her other hand.
Seeing this, I could see Matilda's eyes light up even more as she looked between the fire in one of Rosalind's hands and the book in her other hand.
But while Matilda marveled at the sight, my heart froze even more as I imagined that there was no point in Rosalind telling us something like this unless she was playing some kind of sadistic joke.
I had heard of sadistic and evil things that nobles did to commoners in other areas, so I was really afraid that Rosalind would want to do something like that to us.
"Would you like a book like this, little girl?" Rosalind asked as she showed the cover of the book, which turned into a beautiful drawing of a princess before Matilda's eyes.
Please Matilda, say no... I mentally begged the little girl to say no, even though I knew it was practically impossible.
"Yes..." Matilda said the one word I didn't want her to say....
"No problem, in the capital of Arcantor practically every citizen has such a book now." She said as she smiled and stood up to look us in the eye.
When I heard what she said, I was confused.
Seeing the confusion on my face and the faces of the other adults, Rosalind explained to us that this book was not a magical artifact, but a divine artifact!
After she explained all the functions of this book and even showed us the games it had at our disposal, I felt my blood boil.
Not because of how much fun these games were, but because I thought about the possibility of all the knowledge I had on this Internet... if it really was as Rosalind said, this knowledge could help the village produce much more food and that could greatly improve our living conditions!
Hearing the prayer Rosalind had taught us and trying it out for the first time, feeling the beautiful, delicate book in my hand, shocked us all.
As one of the few educated people in the village, I regretted that it would be more difficult to share this most important information with everyone, but with the book in hand, it was possible to teach everyone slowly, right?
Confused, while I was using the Internet to familiarize myself with it, a sign appeared in front of me.
Rosalind saw it and picked up her book, looking surprised for a second before speaking.
"You're in luck, a new internet update has appeared, anyone with an internet book can use the app [School] to listen to free lessons from Father Robert that will teach illiterate people how to read and write!" Rosalind said smiling. "The only recommendation is that you get together to listen to these lessons in a single person's book, as this would use less of your mental power, as well as not make the God of the Internet use so much divine power to help you learn."
When I heard that, I froze.
Was she saying that the God of the Internet had not only provided us with free knowledge, free entertainment, but had also provided us with a free way to learn to read and write in order to absorb as much of that knowledge as possible?!
As I processed all this information, I couldn't help myself and felt my nose begin to sting as tears streamed down my face.
"Thank you Lady Rosalind, you are changing the fate of our little village..." I said emotionally.
"Don't thank me John, thank the God of the Internet as he is responsible for making all this available, I'm just passing this opportunity on to other people." She said, making me realize that I really should be thanking the God of the Internet.
Thank you, God of the Internet, I will pray in your name as much as I can every day... I thought gratefully as I clasped my hands together in the prayer pose that Lady Rosalind had taught us.
- Adrian's POV -
Listening to this heartfelt prayer, I had a proud smile on my face when I realized that the first believer to give thanks for the [School] app was actually an old headman from a small village that Rosalind had visited on her way out of the kingdom.
To make Robert and Amber even more excited, I added a feature that allowed them to see how many times the audio of the lesson had been listened to.
In the last few minutes since the Internet was launched, six believers had already played it out of curiosity, making me feel my divine power being slowly drained to meet this demand, something I just ignored, but which brought a big smile to my face when I saw how excited the two of them were to realize that six people were listening to the audio they had recorded.
It was a little difficult for Robert to start recording because he was really nervous and lost without knowing how to record without an audience, so Amber and I sat where the students were in the church and acted like students paying attention to his class, which made it much easier for him to start explaining.
After five minutes, Robert had completely lost his embarrassment and was teaching with the same quality as in his other classes, which was great.
As soon as we'd finished recording, I showed them how to upload it, and now they were watching the number of plays on the audio go up.
With my work here done, all I had to do was be patient and let the Internet develop over the next few days.
With the current literacy level of the population, there wasn't much I could do.
Even if I wanted to develop a game of Duel Monsters with cards, it would be a lot of Divine Power spent on something they wouldn't even know how to read the effects of, so it was better to let them learn to read for now, and I would just focus on increasing my power for a while.
As the test time passed, it was good that I was as prepared as possible for a possible confrontation.
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