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SomethingOtherThanRain
God of Internet [LitRPG] by NunuXD
54 - Lucy Wavecrest
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Theoretically, the best choice I could make at this moment for my future development was to stay here and not get involved with other gods.
Even though I received a lot of Divine Power compared to those gods, I still needed a lot more Divine Power than them to do the same damage with each attack, so I needed to gather more Divine Power to be even safer in a possible confrontation with other gods.
But considering that the god I wanted to meet was Lucy, the girl who had a great personality and was very polite and pleasant to old Adrian, I was tempted to go and meet her.
Especially since I was already interested in forming a partnership with her to reduce my cost of divine power for the prayers of believers who wanted to learn to read and write.
Even more so, when I realized that even after I reached Embryonic Divinity Rank 9, it was becoming increasingly difficult to reduce the cost.
I knew that I could lower this cost as long as I put my mind to it, and I managed to lower it, but lowering the cost from 1 Divine Power point to 0.9 Divine Power points was very difficult, but lowering it from 0.9 to 0.85 was more difficult than the previous lowering.
This made me realize that it was going to get harder and harder from now on.
If lowering the cost was so difficult at this point, and if I wanted to make my Internet as addictive and interesting as the Internet in my previous world, it would be almost impossible to do on my own.
If I could overcome the shortcoming of having to spend so much Divine Power through a partnership with Lucy, the cost of Divine Power to keep the Internet active with users using audio would drop so much that even if I gave her a percentage of the Divine Power earned on the Internet, I would still come out ahead.
For the time being, the only use for audio on the Internet was for classes for mortals to learn to read and write, but I wanted to develop the Internet.
To introduce music, radio, TV shows, movies, games, and all kinds of different media, so that people's lives couldn't go on without the Internet, just like in my previous world.
So, despite trying to find various excuses not to go, I knew I had to go and meet Lucy.
Of course, even though I had a positive impression of her, I still had to be careful, so I even stopped my Divine Power study with my main body and just let today's Divine Power income accumulate in my body so that I would have enough resources in case a battle happened.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet
| Level: Rank 9 Embryonic Deity
| Number of believers: 782,413 -> 860,654
| Average usage per user: 4 hours
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| Divine Power: 1.912.904 / 12.800.000 -> 2.429.296 / 12.800.000 (+1.290.981 -774.588)
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Today I made a profit of over 500k Divine Power Points, something I'm sure even the best gods in this test were far from achieving in total, and I managed to do it in just one day...
Unfortunately, the goddess I was about to meet was no ordinary goddess.
According to Internet users in Novera, people in that country prayed to Lucy on average twice a week, and since she didn't have the cost in Divine Power that I had with the Internet, she received that Divine Power directly into her body.
With a population slightly smaller than Arcantor's, Novera probably gave Lucy about 400,000 believers, which equated to 800,000 Divine Power points per week.
And since it had been four weeks since the trial began, she had already received at least 3,200,000 Divine Power points!
If she had just absorbed this Divine Power and not spent it on anything else, she could already be a Rank 9 Embryonic Divinity, just like me.
But the likelihood of that happening was very low.
Both because all the teachers rejected the idea of students running out of Divine Power after each evolution, and because my followers in Novera commented on how many "miracles" she was doing for the kingdom, which would result in a huge expenditure of Divine Power.
If I had to guess, I'd say that Lucy was either at rank 7 with a few million Divine Power saved up for a possible battle that might arise and to perform more miracles for mortals, trying to maintain the twice-a-week prayer frequency, or she was at rank 8 with less Divine Power now, but using less Divine Power per miracle and being able to make stronger attacks with the Divine Power she did have.
Both situations were worrisome, and I personally would have preferred her to be at level 8.
But when I approached the place where she had arranged to meet my Divine Consciousness, I sensed another Divine Consciousness waiting for me there, a Divine Consciousness of a rank 7 god...
This was more problematic...
Since her Rank 7 had at least one million Divine Energy points available for combat, I would need to expend 8 to 9 million Divine Energy points to match the level of destruction she could cause at that moment, a far cry from the 2.5 million I had available now.
But I continued to float up to that position, and as I got closer, I saw the outline of a familiar girl floating in the sky, looking around with a calm expression on her face.
Since I was two ranks above her, I could sense her before she sensed me, so I was able to observe her more calmly before approaching her.
Lucy's appearance had changed a lot since the last time I saw her.
Instead of a shy girl who was afraid to make eye contact with other students despite her great potential, Lucy now floated with a confident straight back, showing that she had accepted the responsibility of being a god.
As her rank increased, so did her divine quality.
Just as my eyes became brighter, her long blue hair also became longer, and the feeling and waves running through it became more intense, even producing a glow at the end.
To match the blue hair, her blue eyes showed the seriousness of the responsibility she had, matching a blue dress that gave me the impression of looking like the texture of water, clinging to her delicate body, making her look very elegant.
[Visual representation on Discord.Gg/NunuXD or on Patreon.Com/NunuXD]
Her elegance was the complete opposite of my casualness.
Since I didn't appear to mortals with my divine consciousness, I never worried about the clothes I wore.
Although my appearance was very good, it was slightly overshadowed by the simple, comfortable clothes I wore.
At this point, could I use my divine power to make a more beautiful and elegant outfit? Yes, but to be honest, I didn't want to bother.
So I just flew up to her calmly and confidently until she noticed my presence and looked at me curiously.
As she looked at my face, the concentrated expression on her face changed to one of genuine surprise, followed by a small smile on her face as she raised her hand and waved at me.
"So the God of the Internet really is you, Adrian!" She said excitedly as she flew towards me with a smile on her face, not in the least bothered by my outfit.
"Is it really me? Did you know that I was the God of the Internet?" I asked in surprise.
"Yes, when the mortals started praying and told me about a caravan entering the kingdom and preaching about another god, it almost caused them to kill the merchants, but luckily I thought of all the students at the school and knew that there was no one with such a unique deity as the 'Internet', so in my mind there was only one person left who could do that! That's why I asked them not to interfere with the caravan, after I realized that the Internet would not harm my believers". Lucy quickly began to explain everything to me as she finally came right up to me and looked into my sparkling eyes with a beautiful smile on her face that took me by surprise.
From what I remembered, even though they had a good relationship, they hadn't been that close before, right?
But this speech of hers made me realize a problem, since her believers were really grateful to her, it was understandable that the information of another god's caravan entering their territory could cause conflicts.
Fortunately, she quickly deduced that I was the god behind it and didn't want to kill my believers.
"Thank you for your mercy towards my believers, if I had known this was your kingdom, I wouldn't have sent them to spread the Internet here." I lied as I bowed my head slightly.
I would still have sent the believers to her kingdom if I had known it was hers, but I would have tried to be more discreet.
Hearing my apology, Lucy quickly waved her hands as she replied. "No need to apologize, it's all part of the test, I wouldn't be mad at you for something like that."
When she finished saying this, Lucy took a deep breath and I could feel her personality changing in front of me as she prepared for what she was going to say next.
Much more serious than before, Lucy spoke. "Knowing that you are the God of the Internet really makes things a lot easier, my proposal for a partnership was a test to see if it really was you, since this has been confirmed, we can now discuss a possible alliance between our two kingdoms."
As she said this, Lucy let out some of her divine power, trying to show dominance for the possible negotiation that would unfold, not realizing that my current rank was higher than hers.
Not to mention that from what she said, it was clear that she didn't know that I no longer ruled a single realm, but that I currently ruled two realms.
This meant that the change of dominance in this negotiation had quietly changed hands.
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SomethingOtherThanRain
God of Internet [LitRPG] by NunuXD
55 - Internet Pantheon
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Seeing Lucy show her Rank 7 Embryonic Divinity to demonstrate her dominance in the negotiation while trying to keep a serious expression, I smiled a little and showed my Rank 9 Divine Power as well.
When she felt my Divine Power being released, Lucy's expression, which she had been trying hard to keep serious, quickly changed to surprise.
Apparently, she finally realized that I was deliberately hiding my rank and understood why she couldn't feel my rank before I allowed her to feel it.
"How?" she asked, her mouth open in an 'O' shape.
Smiling, I answered in a calm voice. "I don't think the information has reached Novera yet, but in the last few days Arcantor and Eldoria clashed, and I defeated the God of Fear in addition to Eldoria's royal family, allowing me to annex Eldoria to Arcantor's sphere of influence, adding another 400,000 believers to the Internet users."
Upon hearing this, Lucy was completely shocked.
Thinking back to the information she had received from her followers about the Internet, she quickly began to calculate the divine power I could receive from those users and became frightened.
So much so that I could see the shock on her face when I imagined the staggering amount of Divine Power I was receiving every week.
"How many believers do you have now?" She asked, unable to close her mouth in surprise.
Quickly recalling my system screen, I replied: "More than 860,000 believers who pray to me an average of 4 times a day."
Hearing my confirmation, Lucy's mouth opened even wider.
"And I thought receiving two prayers a week was an amazing number to be proud of, then you come along and receive four times that amount every day..." She said as she slumped her shoulders.
All the confidence and arrogance she had obviously trained for this moment went down the drain when she learned of our difference.
I didn't try to comfort her, as that would have been too rude at that moment and would have looked like I was trying to mock her, so I just let her deal with her feelings in silence, while keeping a calm and polite expression on my face.
Fortunately, Lucy didn't need much time to do this and quickly perked up a bit and asked me. "Since you decided to come and meet me, is it possible that you're interested in becoming my partner?"
The tone of this question was the complete opposite of the way the subject had come up.
Instead of her acting as if a partnership with her was a favor I would receive, she was now the one who was excited about partnering with me.
"Sure, considering your honest personality, our good relationship at the Divine School, and the potential you've shown in handling your realm so well, I've decided to invite you into my pantheon." I said with a smile.
"Pantheon?" She asked confused.
Unlike the gods of my previous world, which were divided into several different pantheons based on the region where those gods gained their faith, this world didn't have a very well-defined pantheon system.
There were partnerships between gods, but nothing as intimate as pantheons.
"Yes, as you may have noticed, the Internet is an invention of mine that generates a huge amount of divine power every day, but while this brings a great advantage to my power, it also has a high cost in divine power that I have to study every day how to reduce, which reduces the time I could spend thinking about how to develop more applications or features." I began to explain.
"Even though I have a deity as complete as Creativity, I'm still limited by the high cost of Divine Power for developing and maintaining uses of Divine Power that I haven't mastered. So I thought of inviting other gods to form the Internet Pantheon, where several gods with different divinities would help me develop the Internet, and each god would receive a share of the Divine Power that the Internet generates because of their divinity," I explained. I explained.
Listening to my explanation, Lucy's eyes began to shine with excitement.
With the profit of 800,000 Divine Power Points per week that she currently had, compared to the 24 million Divine Power Points that the Internet theoretically generated for me, since I hadn't told her the cost yet, even if I gave her only 5% of that Divine Power, she would already be in profit compared to how much she currently received.
"But what would happen to my followers in Novera?" She asked, her eyebrows furrowed.
"I wouldn't require them to change their faith from you to me, they could still pray to you twice a week out of gratitude, while using the rest of their prayers on the Internet." I explained.
If I were to accept them on the Internet, Novera's population of 400,000 alone would bring me 800,000 Divine Power points of profit per day, just considering the 0.5 Divine Power points cost of the ordinary Internet, not counting the cost of the [School] application.
Even if I had to pay her a share of the big pie I had now, which was Arcantor and Eldoria, adding Novera to that pie would probably increase my profit even more, even if I had to pay her a share.
And for her, she would not only get Divine Power from Novera's 400,000 people, but she would also get a percentage of Arcantor and Eldoria's profits!
So at this point, we had a win-win situation where we would both benefit without either of us having to suffer.
"How much are you going to pay me to join your pantheon?" She asked me, the tips of her hair shining and the waves through it moving even more intensely, showing how excited she was getting.
"Honestly, since I have the Divinity of Creativity, I can replicate the powers of your Divinity, as I already do, but in the future this will become more and more complicated and tedious, so I thought I'd let you manage the part of the Internet that uses your Divinity, and in return I'll give you 15% of the Divine Power income from those sections." I explained as I opened my hand and projected a holographic screen.
On this holographic screen, I showed the number of users who used the school app on a daily basis while explaining how much it would cost with their interference and how much profit it could generate for us.
[School: 774,588 daily uses].
"With your participation in the Internet, the cost of this app would drop to just the standard cost of normal Internet, which would yield a profit of 445,000 Divine Power Points per day, your 15% participation in this app would mean 66,000 Divine Power Points per day, or 467,000 per week." I said as I displayed everything I was showing in numbers and graphs on the hologram.
"That's just with the population of Arcantor and Eldoria, not counting the population of Novera, which would increase the number of users of this app even more, increasing the profit even more, or even other kingdoms that we could dominate together in the future." I said as I showed everything on the screen.
With each explanation, I could see the excitement growing on her face.
As a game developer in my previous world, someone who had to deal with greedy businessmen who wanted to get the most out of me, I knew that the worst thing to do was to show what you were thinking by your facial expressions, as she was doing now, but I wasn't going to correct her now.
So I finally designed the ultimate cake for her. "Also, since I am the God of Creativity, I have several ideas for more applications of your divinity on the Internet in the future that would further increase your share of Internet revenues to unimaginable numbers."
As I said this, the graph on the holographic screen began to rise without stopping.
Since audio was a fundamental part of the Internet, her participation in all of this was very important.
And since I was paying her a percentage of the profits and she was paying some of the costs, there was no downside to this partnership for me.
Maybe if I waited for several years with each rank I rose to learn how to apply the efficiency of Divine Power on the Internet, I could do it all by myself, but paying such a percentage for the participation of a goddess with such high potential to become my ally was too cheap.
I still had to calculate how all this cost and profit sharing would work in the future so that nothing could be taken advantage of maliciously by either side, but from the look on Lucy's face now, I knew that I had already hooked this big fish.
So I held out my hand to her and smiled. "So, Lucy Wavecrest, do you agree to be the first member of the Internet Pantheon besides me?"
Looking at the screen with the presentations of what I had said, then feeling my current power, thinking about how much divine power I was receiving daily, and thinking about how many things she could do with that much power, Lucy smiled as she extended her hand to me and shook my hand as well.
"Yes Adrian Innovashine, as long as you show me that everything you've promised me is real, I agree to participate in the Internet Pantheon. She replied with a beautiful smile on her face.
With a simple handshake, a future legend of the Divine Kingdom was born.
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