"Is this serious, Lord Athenos?" Robert asked in shock.
"Yes Robert, the God of the Internet is very pleased with your work teaching people to read and intends to give you a blessing before your class, a blessing to increase your teaching efficiency so that you will be able to teach more people at the same time and these people will be able to learn even faster than they normally would." I explained with a smile.
Hearing this, the old man's eyes were even brighter.
"Thank you, Lord Athenos, and thank you, God of the Internet." The man said, clasping his hands religiously.
Nodding my head, I instructed him to gather more people so that he could teach at the same time, and to continue to charge 2 copper coins per person per week, but he would collect the excess money to renovate the church.
"With a bigger, more imposing church, it will give a better feeling to the citizens of Internet God." I explained as Robert nodded several times.
The number of students Robert was teaching grew to 200, which meant an income for Robert of 400 copper coins per week, or 4 silver coins!
Per month, this rose to a total of 1600 copper coins or 16 silver coins, a figure that the average family could only dream of.
So Robert's guilt over earning so much money grew, and I realized that I had to appease him.
To accommodate the nearly 100 people in the first class of students, Robert and Amber had organized the church as a large open space, with no chairs, just some cloth on the floor for people to sit on in a less uncomfortable way.
But while the people in my world might have felt bad about having to sit like that, the people in this world didn't care so much and just sat neatly while looking at Robert curiously.
When they saw me next to him, many of their glances were confused or surprised.
Mostly because of my clothes, which were very different from the ones they wore here.
While the commoners only had money to buy clothes made of cheap fabric with thick, rough seams. I wore a more modern and comfortable outfit, with a cotton fabric that seemed more comfortable and delicate to them than the clothes of the nobles.
The only thing that distinguished me from the nobles was that my outfit wasn't as extravagant as the mages' clothes.
For me, it was just a white long-sleeved shirt with blue jeans and comfortable white sneakers, very different from the clothes full of layers and decorations that the nobles liked to wear.
But because of the quality of my clothes, the commoners still looked at me curiously.
Since there were people who had already seen me among the students, they quickly learned who I was, which made them wary of my presence.
Realizing that this might disrupt the class, I decided to go elsewhere and leave my body.
As I watched those 87 ordinary people praying to me and earning 47 Divine Power points in no time, a big smile appeared on my face.
Okay, now it's time to give Robert the blessing. I thought as I began to use my Divine Power to bless him.
Fortunately, the thousands of wizards at Arcantor Magic School had already prayed to me several times today, so my accumulated Divine Power had exceeded the 9,000 required for the blessing.
The process of developing the Blessing was quite unique for each god and style of deity.
A God of Love could bless his believer's procreation or make other people fall in love with him with ease.
A god of war could bless his followers so that they would become more powerful during a war.
The more people a god blessed at once, the less effective the blessing was, but for the other gods, the blessings were also about 10 times cheaper than for me...
So I started doing the blessing for Robert, following the instructions in the book I'd read.
First, I needed the intention of the blessing with Divine Power.
My main intention with this blessing was that all the knowledge that Robert was explaining and that he really understood would be absorbed much more easily by the audience that was paying attention to him.
The secondary intention of the blessing was that Robert's voice would spread more easily, reducing the effort he had to make to get a large number of people to listen to him.
With the intentions set, a small blue ball the size of a bean began to float in my hand, and now all I had to do was determine how much Divine Power I needed to put into the blessing.
When I looked at my Divine Power reserves and saw the number 12,611 Divine Power available, I nodded and began to inject Divine Power into it.
As soon as I started injecting Divine Power into this benediction, the bean-sized blue ball slowly grew.
By the time it reached 5,000 points of Divine Power, the bean was the size of a grape, and by the time it reached 10,000 points of Divine Power, it was the size of a strawberry.
As I looked at the beautiful ball of blue light shining in my hand, a smile appeared on my face.
Success!
Because of my divinity, I could easily feel the effect of this blessing.
[The Teaching Blessing: When you teach others, as long as you know what you're teaching and what you intend to teach, the target person has a 100% greater chance of understanding what you're explaining, and the speed of learning that content increases by 100% during that study session.
Duration: 7 days].
When I looked at the 100% chance of understanding the content of the lesson, I got very excited until I realized that there was a little pun in the words used.
This 100% didn't mean that the student would have a 100% chance of learning the lesson, but that the chance of learning it would be doubled, i.e. if it used to take a person 40 minutes to learn a letter, now with this blessing it would only take them 20 minutes!
Out of curiosity, I decided to add a little more Divine Power to this blessing.
The ball of blue light, which was just a small dwelling before, slowly grew in size with the additional 1,000 points of Divine Power I put into it.
While I was injecting Divine Power into it, I could feel that I could choose what I wanted to change, so I decided to use this Divine Power in the effect of the benediction, and I continued to inject Divine Power.
Of course, I didn't want to use the 2,000 points of Divine Power I had left and have nothing left, so I stopped and looked at the result.
[Teaching Blessing: When you're teaching other people, as long as you know what you're teaching and have the intention to teach, the target person has a 110% greater chance of understanding what you're explaining and increases the speed of learning that content by 110% during that study session.
Duration: 7 days].
Hmm... I thought as I looked at the result.
I could have chosen to increase the effect or the duration of the blessing, but 7 days was more than enough, so I could just focus on the effect and spend a week gathering Divine Power to increase it again after 7 days.
Satisfied with the result, I nodded and looked at Robert, who was about to start teaching.
Seeing that this was the perfect moment, I extended my hand with the blessing to Robert and controlled the blessing to go down to him.
When they saw the delicate light blue orb descending from the sky toward Father Robert, the mortals were completely shocked as they stared at it.
Robert, already knowing what it was, plastered a broad smile on his face as he knelt and clasped his hands in prayer to me.
I just smiled and let the blessing fall on his body, causing his body to glow slightly blue for a second before returning to normal.
When Robert opened his eyes, you could see his eyes glowing slightly blue, just like mine!
Was this a characteristic of a person who had been blessed by me?
When the other mortals looked at Robert, especially at his blue-glowing eyes, the shock on their faces was obvious!
The image of Robert, who once looked like an old man battered by time, was now slightly transformed into a truly divine man.
"Father Robert...what happened?!" One man finally gathered his courage and asked in shock.
"That... That was the blessing of the Internet God himself!" Robert said as he held out his hands. "He is very happy that everyone wants to learn to read and write, so happy that he blessed me so that I can teach you even easier and so that you can learn even faster with me!"
When people heard this, they were completely shocked.
Knowing that the God of the Internet was watching them and was happy with what he saw brought a big smile to their faces.
Not wanting to waste the blessing, Robert quickly started the lesson and everyone realized that they were actually learning faster!
As I watched them learn, I estimated that the time it used to take them to learn to read and write, which was about 3 months or 90 days, had now been reduced to less than 45 days!
Possibly this group of believers, as long as they continued to learn to read and write with Robert every day, could become literate people who could use the Internet perfectly in just over a month!
In other words, their daily Internet use would increase from 2-3 hours a day to a possible 4-6 hours a day with ease!
And as I added more features to the Internet, it was even possible that this would increase even more!
Just thinking about it made me excited about what other features I could launch with a fully educated population!
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At the end of today's class, both the students and Robert and Amber were shocked at how fast everyone was learning.
Compared to the previous day's lesson, the students were learning twice as fast as Robert!
The number of letters they had learned was double that of the previous lesson, and when they thought about everything they had learned in class, the knowledge seemed to be even more ingrained in their minds than usual!
When the students left, the news spread quickly among other Internet users.
Those who couldn't read told other users who couldn't read, while those who could read posted about it online, and those who could read and saw the post told their friends and family who couldn't read.
In no time at all, the number of students who wanted to learn from Robert had grown from 190 to nearly 300, and it was still growing!
The concern of the illiterate commoners was that it seemed so complicated to learn to read and write, why waste time trying?
But with the news that the God of the Internet himself had blessed Robert so that he could teach people and people could learn faster, the shy commoners with little confidence realized that maybe they could learn now.
After all, even the God of the Internet used his divine powers to bless Father Robert so that they could learn, so maybe they could learn, right?
So at Robert's second class, the number of people who wanted to learn was so great that the church was completely filled.
But despite the crowd, everyone was very well-behaved and didn't cause any trouble in the Church of the Internet God, and just sat quietly while listening to Father Robert's explanation and paying attention to his words and the pictures in their books.
When people felt that they were really learning very quickly, they became even more excited, and the news spread even to ordinary people who didn't know about the Internet.
Knowing how to read and write was considered something noble that only nobles or wizards could normally do, but knowing that it was possible for ordinary commoners like them to learn how to read and write for just two copper coins a week was shocking news.
It was even more shocking to discover that the God of the Internet existed in Arcantor with such a magical and incredible Internet!
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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 3
| Number of believers: 5,249 -> 6,282
| Average usage time per user: 8 hours
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| Divine power: 2,201 / 40,000 -> 19,128 / 40,000
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Looking at the huge increase in the number of believers and Divine Power, I had a big smile on my face.
Even though the average usage time per user had decreased, I was still very satisfied.
The wizards had already killed most of their curiosity, just like children when they get a new toy, and now the normal routine was returning.
I still expected the average time to drop in the next few days, but I was satisfied with the current number.
I had gained more than 20,000 Divine Power points today, but I had to spend some of it on the blessing for Robert.
If this continued, I might be able to become a rank 4 Embryonic Deity tomorrow!
But using all my Divine Power without saving anything and not developing anything new online wasn't very smart.
So... like a good programmer, I got my hands dirty and started giving the Internet some much-needed upgrades.
First, the [Library] got a few dozen new books.
I had to spend a few hundred Divine Power Points just to remember every detail of these books.
Among these books, I decided to include some picture books for believers who have trouble reading!
Even though the price of converting these books was more expensive than normal books, I now had enough Divine Power to spend on it.
Of course, the picture books I brought were all stories set in medieval worlds.
I used children's books, comics, manga, manhwas, webtoons, and many different styles of stories to attract as many people as possible.
Of course, even though I had spent a lot of Divine Power to bring these books into this world, instead of releasing everything at once, I decided to program new chapters of these stories to be released every day.
That way, users wouldn't just read one story, but could become addicted to multiple stories, giving them a reason to use the Internet every day and spend their Internet Coins.
These books also had a cost to unlock based on Internet Coins, but the cost was so low that they didn't have to worry about it.
I also took the opportunity to develop another section of the [Library], a section for authors!
Users could write their own books and publish them on the Internet, and keep 50% of the Internet Coins generated by the sales.
I know this would be very unpopular with commoners, but nobles and wizards would love this, especially knowing that thousands of people could read what they've written, so for people who seek fame and glory like them, this would be a great idea!
All of these changes to the [Library] application cost a total of 4,199 Divine Power Points.
For the [Carrier Pigeon] application, I decided to update the option for users to create groups!
Now, instead of just sending messages directly from one person to another, it was possible to send messages in groups and have multiple people receive them at the same time!
This update was very cheap, costing only 200 Divine Power Points.
[CardMasters] was the last app to be updated, and I used 2,000 Divine Power Points just to update the graphics of the cards in the game, and to add skins for users' decks that could be purchased with Internet Coins!
These skins ranged in price from 10 Internet Coins to 1,000 Internet Coins!
Since the Internet Coins were free, I wasn't too worried about the price of the skins.
And since I knew how people reacted to Gacha, I included skins that could only be obtained through Gacha.
Would people in my old world hate me for that? Possibly, but the people in that world had no idea what it was, so I wasn't worried.
After all, they would have fun playing a free game with skins that you could win for free, just harder to get because it was random.
To run a Gacha, you had to spend 20 Internet Coins, less than a person would make in a week on the Internet, where you could get very cheap skins that cost only 10 Internet Coins, or skins that cost 1,000 Internet Coins, even the Legendary skins that were only available in the Gacha, obviously with a very low chance of getting them.
With so much Divine Power available, I put a lot of effort into making beautiful Deck Skins, until I remembered something, or more specifically, a game that was very popular in my previous world.
A card game where each card represented a monster or spell.
The player could buy packs of cards and customize his deck to his liking, as well as duel against other players.
That wouldn't be a bad idea in this world, would it?
I'd just have to wait a little longer, because you'd have to be able to read to play it, so I'd have to wait for the population of this world to become more literate...
But it was a great idea to save for the future.
Thinking back to the little fire dragon I made in my school room in the Divine World, I could even use these duel monsters as an offensive means for my army to fight in the future!
It would be like a blessing that users could activate to fight for them at any time.
Compared to other gods who could only bless their followers when they were paying attention to them, this would be a great way to attract other gods' followers to pray to me, hehe.
The [CardMasters] update, which added skins for the decks, improved the graphics of this game, and added 'Spades' and 'Bridge' as new game modes for players, cost me 5,901 Divine Power Points.
The total cost of the Internet upgrade was 10,300 Divine Power Points, a figure that wasn't even that high compared to how much I received on a daily basis.
It was a bit shocking to go to sleep and see my total Divine Power drop from 19,128 to just 8,828, but I was excited to wake up the next day and see how users would react when I implemented this upgrade.
It'll be fun to see how someone reacts to Gacha for the first time in their life...
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