NOVEL NEXT 32 – Upgrades
My Internet was already developed enough for me to take advantage of the divine power it would give me.
Especially now that there was even an "automatic" way to turn illiterate users into literate users who would be able to use the Internet more efficiently in the future, the best course of action for me to optimize myself and the Internet now was to literally do nothing.
Stop spending my divine power on improving the Internet, and save it for increasing my rank and my reserve in case of battle.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet
| Level: Embryonic deity rank 4
| Number of believers: 6,282 -> 14,610
| Average usage per user: 5 hours
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| Divine power: 20,485 / 80,000 -> 48,010 / 80,000
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Because of the public classes that Robert was still giving, the number of ordinary people who saw the Internet and developed an interest in using it was increasing, and so was the number of users.
Unfortunately, since more than 95% of these people were illiterate, the first two hours of using it didn't earn me any Divine Power, but only served to pay back the Divine Power of listening to Robert's recorded lecture.
Fortunately, I was still working in the positive.
Since these people were using the Internet for 3 or 4 hours a day, I was already making a profit, although it was much less than the profit I would have made without them listening to the lecture.
But the ones who really made me a lot of profit were the students of the Arcantor Magic School.
They were the example that a user base that knew how to use the Internet, that could read and use all the applications, could give me much more Divine Power than the average illiterate population.
Each student at Arcantor Magic School used the Internet for an average of 7 hours, with some using it for an average of 5 hours a day, and others even reaching 9 hours of daily use.
Especially when the school library moved to the Internet, this increased their daily use even more, because reading books on the Internet was much more convenient than reading physical books that had to be taken everywhere.
And since no one listened to the literacy lessons, their use on the Internet was pure profit for me.
This motivated me very much to accept the possible loss that teaching so many people to read at the same time might bring, and to think about my future when the whole kingdom was literate.
Over the next few days, to ensure the safety of the kingdom, I decided to leave a reserve of Divine Power equal to three times the total Divine Power of my rank.
So for rank 4, which required 80,000 Divine Power points to advance to rank 5, I decided to keep a reserve of 240,000 points so that I wouldn't be vulnerable as I advanced in rank.
Especially considering that if I had 80,000 Divine Power points saved up, it would be the same as other gods with only 8,000 Divine Power points in attack power...
Ideally, I'd like to store at least ten times as much Divine Power instead of just three times as much, but that would slow down my growth too much and reduce my potential profit over time.
So I wouldn't store that much for now.
In the future, I should definitely do this, because it was better to slow down my development than to die and lose the right to my kingdom, but as long as the other gods were also developing slowly, I should make the most of it.
The next day, my divine power and my followers increased even more.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet
| Level: Rank 4 Embryonic Deity
| Number of believers: 14,610 -> 18,993
| Average usage per user: 5 hours
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| Divine Power: 48,010 / 80,000 -> 79,978 / 80,000 (+47,482 -15,514)
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Although I lost 15,514 Divine Power points due to the illiterate believers listening to the literacy lessons at [School], the profit I made from using them on the Internet the rest of the time and for the believers who could already read was very good.
The whole day brought me a net profit of nearly 32,000 Divine Power Points, a very fast accumulation rate.
In order to speed up this process even more, I decided to repeat the same "invitation" I had made to Rosalind to several other merchant caravans leaving Arcantor, whose leader was an Internet user.
I would have liked to have done this before, but since there were no other caravan leaders who used the Internet, it would not have been productive to invite the guards of other caravans to do this job, as they did not have the necessary authority to do the job for me in other countries.
By using a targeted advertising strategy to the caravan leaders, with content tailored to the information they provided to me on the Internet, I was able to get them all to become my emissaries.
The total number of caravans spreading the Internet to other small villages and other countries increased by six groups.
That still wasn't a number that would make me the most powerful godfather in the world, but it was a start.
Since I wasn't developing anything very important for the Internet, keeping track of who was leaving town with the Internet wasn't a job that demanded much of me, so this number of caravans would only increase over time.
This stability was very useful, as it allowed me to easily accumulate Divine Power for another 5 days, which finally brought me to the goal I needed to be able to move up one rank again.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet
| Level: Rank 4 Embryonic Deity
| Number of believers: 18,993 -> 70,519
| Average usage per user: 5 hours
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| Divine Power: 127,461 / 80,000 -> 242,292 / 80,000 (+178,299 -63,478)
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If it weren't for [School], I would have accumulated enough Divine Power to level up a lot sooner, but I've already noticed that some of the illiterate believers who have been studying since day one are now using the Internet a little too much, using it to practice reading and reading the gossip posted on [Carrier Pigeon].
Even though they had difficulties with some letters and words, with Robert's blessing in teaching, this had already greatly accelerated their learning speed.
Looking at this, I began to calculate in my mind and realized that this could be an even better form of investment.
If instead of using 10,000 Divine Power Points to increase the quality of Robert's teaching and the disciples' learning speed by 100%, I used 30,000 to increase it by 300%, the disciples would take 3 times less time to learn to read, which means they would use the [School] application 3 times less, and my cost of Divine Power to teach them would be 3 times less!
Considering how much Divine Power I spent every day just to have them listen to the lessons, spending, even more, to give Robert a powerful buff and reduce their time was very good.
And since the number of believers would increase more and more every day, the return on that investment of Divine Power would be much greater than it is now.
I just wanted to do one thing first.
I turned my consciousness to the divine world and quickly began absorbing that divine power and ascending the ranks.
I wanted to take advantage of this bonus of affinity and efficiency in the use of Divine Power before I blessed Robert, as this could further increase the effect of this buff for him and lower the price for me.
With each rank I climbed, the price of the climb doubled again, but that wasn't the only doubling sensation I felt.
My stamina also increased at an alarming rate.
My thin, weak body was getting fitter and fitter, using Divine Power as fuel, as if I was tweaking myself into my best shape.
And even though I hadn't become twice as strong as I was when I was only a Rank 1, I felt like I was about to unleash something greater within me.
Now that I was a Rank 5 Embryonic God, I felt like this unlocking was halfway done, something that would possibly be completed when I ascended to a Rank 1 Elemental God!
As soon as I moved up a rank, I felt as if a slight burst of energy leaked out of me before I controlled it back into my body and focused on the small world again.
I had no idea that there were teachers who were extremely shocked by what I was doing now, and with the speed of my progress, my focus was only on my status window as my consciousness returned to the mortal world.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet
| Level: Rank 5 Embryonic Deity
| Number of believers: 70,519
| Average usage per user: 5 hours
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| Divine Power: 242,292 / 80,000 -> 162,282 / 160,000 (-80,000)
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Looking at the remaining 162,000 points of Divine Power, I began to think of a very strange idea...
Wouldn't it be extremely useful to use 100,000 Divine Power Points to make a blessing that would accelerate Robert's teaching and learning speed tenfold?
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