Just as gods could use divine power to create attacks and powers based on what their divinity was based on, blessings had the same functionality.
A fire god could bless soldiers to use fire in their attacks, give them flame resistance, or anything related to the divinity of that fire god's believing soldier.
As the god of creativity, I had the freedom to do whatever I wanted, but in return, just as my attacks had a much higher cost than the attacks of other gods, my blessings also had a much higher cost.
From what I learned in the book, a normal god would need at least 1,000 Divine Power points to cast a blessing at the level I wanted to cast it for a single believer.
And here was the problem for a deity with as much freedom as mine.
To perform the same blessing, the cost for me was ten times higher, or 10,000 Divine Power Points...
The same cost it would have taken me to rise from a rank 1 elemental deity to rank 2...
Of course, I wasn't spending my Divine Power on something useless, but on an investment that would make the Internet users spend even more time on the Internet and give me even more Divine Power in the long run.
And unfortunately, this problem of the cost of Divine Power for the blessing was the same as the attacks...
Since the Divinity of Creativity didn't have any exclusive high-affinity attack concepts, even though it had a lot of freedom to make attacks in extremely creative ways, the cost of making attacks was just as expensive as making blessings...
So even if I received a huge amount of Divine Power every day, I would have to be very careful with my Divine Power reserve so that I would always have enough Divine Power for a possible confrontation in the future.
But that wasn't something I needed to worry about right now.
Especially with the amount of Divine Power I had at the moment.
In the late afternoon, after the Arcantor Magic School's classes ended, the students who had spent hours using the Internet in class also used the Internet for a few hours for entertainment and to tell their friends and family who weren't studying at the Arcantor Magic School about the Internet, causing both my Divine Power to explode and the number of users to grow very rapidly.
Since most of the current users were now wizards, with much greater mental power than ordinary people, they were able to use the Internet for much longer than other people!
And since they were all literate, they were able to use all the features of the Internet as it was meant to be used, not to mention the new applications I had developed specifically for the students of Arcantor Magic School.
So the amount of Divine Power I received today was explosive!
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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 1
| Number of believers: 5,244
| Average usage per user: 12 hours
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| Divine Power: 5,550 / 10,000 -> 35,214 / 10,000 (-1,800 +31,464)
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I had an incredible 35,000 Divine Power points!
A number that would take an ordinary god months to accumulate, but I managed it in just a few days...
Even though I had used 1,800 Divine Power Points to develop the two applications, that was a negligible consumption compared to the amount I was now getting.
Of course, looking at today's average Internet usage time, I knew it wouldn't stay that way, since today was their first day of contact and everything was new, maybe in the next few days that number would drop by half, but I was already happy about it.
To the point where I could spend a lot more time developing even better apps, or improving current apps to a much higher level, without worrying about running out of Divine Power!
But Adrian... focus... you need focus Adrian!
I currently needed to invest 10,000 Divine Power points in Robert to give him a blessing so that he could teach the commoners to read and write as quickly as possible.
Of course, the more Divine Power I used for the blessing, the more powerful it would be, but for now, 10,000 Divine Power points was enough.
That left me with 25k Divine Power points to use as I pleased, and since there was no possible battle I would have to deal with now, it was good to use it to increase my rank.
And that's exactly what I did.
When I returned my consciousness from the mortal world to the divine world, I sat down in the most comfortable position I could manage and closed my eyes as I felt the divine power in my body.
Before, the Divine Power seemed to be in a container, like a tank of water that could be easily drawn from a tap.
But what I would do now would be to use the water in that tank internally...
I would leave my tank, or as the teachers call it, my Divine Core, to absorb the Divine Power to the point of saturation.
If I had my system screen that I had projected in front of me, I would have seen the numbers go down quickly.
Divine Power: 35,214/10,000 -> 32,513/10,000 -> ...
With each point of Divine Power that my Divine Core absorbed, I felt that it was becoming more and more resilient, and my affinity with Divine Power was improving.
Even though I couldn't feel how deep this affinity was or if it would really give me a tangible advantage, I continued to absorb this Divine Power.
Divine Power: 29,971/10,000 -> 27,777/10,000 -> 25,214/20,000.
When I absorbed exactly 10,000 points of Divine Power in just 20 minutes, I felt that my Divine Core had evolved!
My affinity with Divine Power had also risen to a new level, and I felt that I could control my Divine Power much more easily now!
With the amount of Divine Power I now had, I decided to do a test run to develop the exact same application I had made for the Arcantor Kingdom, the [Arcantor National], which had originally cost me 400 points of Divine Power, now I was able to develop it for only 380 points of Divine Power!
That's a 5% reduction in the development cost of the application!
Considering that the maintenance cost of the Internet was 0.5 Divine Power points per hour of mortal use, now that I had increased my rank, it would probably drop to 0.475 Divine Power points per hour!
Curious, I looked at my dashboard again.
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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 2
| Number of believers: 5,246
| Average usage per user: 6 hours
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| Divine power: 25,214 / 20,000
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I had risen from a Rank 1 Embryonic Deity to Rank 2, and the amount of Divine Power I needed to increase my rank had doubled.
From what I remembered from the teacher's explanation, the amount of Divine Power needed to increase in rank doubled with each level of Embryonic Divinity, so while it only increased by 10,000 Divine Power points from Rank 1 to Rank 2, it would increase by 20,000 from Rank 2 to Rank 3.
But looking at how much Divine Power I had left, I saw an opportunity.
Instead of using this Divine Power to bless Robert right now and give him a blessing of 10,000 Divine Power points, or 9. 500 with the affinity I now had with my deity, I could now use 20,000 Divine Power points to further improve my rank and gain another 5% affinity with my deity, reducing the cost of the blessing by a total of 10%, or perhaps even increasing the effect of the blessing on Robert by 10%, giving him an effect of 11,000 Divine Power in a rank 1 blessing, but spending only 10,000 on rank 3.
When I calculated how much I would save per day, or have a 10% more efficient blessing for the same amount every day, I realized that moving up a rank was really the best choice now.
And that's exactly what I did.
Taking advantage of the pleasant feeling I had just gotten from moving up a rank, I let it come back to me as I began to spend even more Divine Power to move up another rank.
Feeling the divine power being drained from my reserves was a little painful, but feeling it being absorbed into me was very satisfying.
Now that I knew how to do it more easily, it only took me 10 minutes to absorb the 20,000 points of Divine Power I needed.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet
| Level: Rank 3 Embryonic Deity
| Number of believers: 5,249
| Average usage per user: 6 hours
|------------------------
| Divine power: 5,215 / 40,000
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Looking at the current measly 5,214 Divine Power points available, I was a little despondent, especially compared to the merciless 40,000 Divine Power points needed to advance one rank.
But I didn't let that deter me.
I truly felt a 10% greater affinity for Divine Power compared to when I was just a Rank 1 Embryonic Divinity!
Now all I had to do was wait for my Divine Power to recover in the evening and I could bless Robert as soon as possible for tomorrow's class!
But unbeknownst to me, my evolution from two small realms in less than 40 minutes had not gone unnoticed.
Neither the mortals nor the other students noticed that someone had gone from a Level 1 Embryonic Divinity to Level 3 in such a short time, but for the teachers and principals of the school, it was extremely easy to notice such a thing.
And it was extremely surprising to them who were gathered in the teachers' room watching our test.
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"Starting the test as a rank 2 embryonic god is a great advantage, it's as if the young god has 5% more ease in passing the test compared to the other gods". One of the teachers said in the middle of the conversation.
"Yes, but although that 5% is a significant advantage, it is not all, after all, a student with a score of 90 who has a 5% advantage in the test would not be able to beat a student with a score of 98, even with the rank advantage. Another teacher also commented.
The principals just watched the teachers' conversation with interest, but had no intention of interrupting.
Everyone in the room had already passed the test that the young gods were taking now, some starting as Rank 3 ED (Embryonic Deity), others as Rank 2 ED, some even as Rank 1 ED, so they were aware that it was a real advantage to start the test with higher ranks, but it wasn't a determining factor in the result either.
It's not like they were going to stop students from using their relatives' worlds to get believers and rank up.
So it was just a matter of bad luck for those young gods who didn't have access to other small worlds, but no one was going to do anything about it.
Suddenly, in the middle of the teachers' discussion, everyone fell silent in astonishment.
"Has anyone ever managed to break through from a rank 1 embryonic god to rank 2?" One of the directors was shocked when he noticed energy leaking from one of the students' booths.
If it had been other students who were also Embryonic Divinities, hardly anyone would have noticed this little bit of Divine Power leaking out of one of the booths, but as one of the principals of the school, Abraham clearly sensed this Divine Power and even what rank the person leaking this Divine Power was.
The other teachers and principals also noticed it with astonishment in their eyes.
"Could it be young Lucy Wavecrest who has risen in rank?" Dillon, Adrian's teacher, said in surprise.
"It's most likely her." The other teachers agreed with Dillon's hypothesis.
But the principals didn't agree.
Because they had a higher deity rank, they could sense from the divine power that was coming out that this divine power wasn't from a deity related to the ocean.
The feeling of this divine power was completely different from what they had felt before.
Although it was surprising, the teachers wanted to finish their discussion before they found out who had ascended.
But just 10 minutes later another sensation surprised the teachers.
"Someone else has risen from a Rank 2 Embryonic Divinity to Rank 3?" Dillon said in shock.
"Who did that?" Another teacher asked in shock.
In the class taking the test, there were only a few students who started the test as a Rank 2 ED, so the number of possible students who could have achieved this was very small.
But one line from Aubrie, the only female principal, shocked everyone.
"This promotion from Rank 2 to Rank 3 is from the same young god who just went from Rank 1 to Rank 2..." She said with a serious voice.
Upon hearing this, the other teachers were shocked.
"A rank 1 student just jumped to rank 3 in only three days of testing, Lady Spearstrike?" One of the teachers asked in shock.
With a furrowed brow, Aubrie just nodded, trying to figure out who the young god was who had accomplished this feat.
Taking control of the testing equipment, she finally learned where those two waves of Divine Power had come from, and to the surprise of not only her, but all the other Gods in the room, the student taking the test in the booth who had that surge of Divine Power was Adrian Innovashine, the God of Creativity!
Seeing this name, the faces of the teachers were completely shocked, while the faintest hint of a smile appeared on Aubrie's face.
"Even though he's advanced two ranks, his Divine Power affinity may only have improved from 2 to 10%, which still represents an enormous difficulty in reducing the amount of Divine Power used in his attacks..." One of the teachers sighed.
Upon hearing this, the other teachers also sighed.
After all, even if he had reached 10% Divine Power affinity, he would still use 90% more Divine Power to perform the same attack as a rank 1 Embryonic Divinity...
But Aubrie wasn't disappointed, just the fact that he was able to accumulate 30,000 Divine Power points in 3 days, or 6 days in the mortal world, showed that the young Innovashine had great potential.
So what if he used 90% more Divine Power than a rank 1 ED, wouldn't he gain several times more Divine Power in the same amount of time?
But Aubrie didn't say anything and just sat quietly as she watched the teachers discuss.
There was just one thing that caught her attention... First Sergeant Dillon was very keen to reassure the teachers that the probability of young Zack Gale winning this test was very high... something very unusual for a teacher who should theoretically be impartial...
- Adrian's POV -
It took me a few hours to get used to my new power...
Improving my efficiency in using Divine Power was the most important factor for the current test in the mortal world.
Both in terms of how powerful my attacks were now, how much more powerful my blessings could be, and the cost of maintaining the Internet for mortals had been slightly reduced.
But these were only the changes that my consciousness in the mortal world could feel, my divine body in the divine world had also undergone changes.
When I jumped from Rank 1 to Rank 2, I didn't realize how much these changes affected me, but jumping to Rank 3 in a few minutes made this change much greater...
First of all, when I looked in the mirror, my divine feature, which was my bright blue eyes, was currently shining with a greater intensity than usual.
For example, the God of Mountains, as a One God, had muscles as big and powerful as mountains, but his back literally had a pair of large, imposing mountains growing out of it, an almost impenetrable defense for gods of the same rank who tried to attack him from behind.
The higher his divinity rank, the more imposing and resistant those mountains became.
Therefore, seeing such an imposing divinity feature was a way to show strength in the divine world.
Just as Zack, the God of Thunder, had small electric sparks running through his hair, it was very likely that as his rank increased in the future, he would actually be able to replace his hair completely with lightning.
But just as these characteristics could be displayed, they could also be hidden.
That's what I did.
Taking control of my divine power, I deliberately returned the brightness of my eyes to the level of the first rank and kept it that way.
Although this trait was very attractive to me, it didn't help me at all now and could possibly draw unwanted attention to me.
Another change in me was my body, from being an undernourished and weak boy, some muscles began to appear, making me more defined.
Of course, my strength wasn't limited to what my body looked like... I was now many times stronger than when I was a normal human in my previous life, but compared to the other gods, I was now at the bottom of the food chain.
But I was happy with that, although I sometimes lifted things much harder than I should have, even spilled some water on myself without meaning to, I soon got used to it and lay down to sleep for a while, obviously with my cell phone set to wake me up in 3 or 4 hours.
Sleeping with my full consciousness in my body was much more relaxing than sleeping with it in the mortal world...
As soon as I woke up, the first thing I did was to send my consciousness to the mortal world.
When I got there, I noticed that Robert was using the Internet to study the textbooks while he and Amber discussed how to improve his teaching.
Amber, being younger, was able to give the old man very valuable opinions.
Seeing that it was only a few hours before Robert's first class and that 60 more people had signed up to learn with him, I knew I had to deal with it now, tell him about the plans to increase the number of students and the venue, and finally test my blessing on him.
Thinking of the blessing I had prepared, a big smile appeared on my face as I sent my conscience to the marble body in the Church of the God of the Internet before approaching Robert and Amber to tell them the good news.
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