At that time, I had no idea that my name was becoming more and more famous among the teachers, that my rapid rise in rank with so few followers was attracting so much attention.
But I didn't have to worry about that.
Even if the power of the Internet was made known to the teachers, I was confident that they wouldn't do anything too bad to me because of it, maybe just an interrogation to clear up any doubts about how I was developing the Internet.
Something I had already imagined from the moment I decided to develop it, after all, with how fast I was growing, I would have to be very innocent to believe that everything would happen perfectly without any of the more powerful gods noticing.
And what I really wanted was for the other gods at the school to notice, since I'd have a thick thigh to hold up like that.
From what I had analyzed from the information in this body's memories, the divine world was very complex.
With an extremely large number of gods, with personalities that were difficult to deal with, with a lot of ego involved, and with a lot of individual power, it was obvious that it would be impossible to develop a single government for all the gods to live under.
Internal conflicts were very common, even more so with the large number of gods that existed.
Among the gods, there were good gods who didn't let envy cloud their judgment, and there were gods who thought only of their own benefit and didn't care about the consequences.
As a young Rank 4 embryonic god, I was at the bottom of the food chain in this divine world, so if I attracted the interest of a god with a bad heart who was more powerful than me, it would be very difficult for me to resist doing whatever he wanted with me.
That's why I had to attract the attention of the teachers and directors of the school, who knew how to follow militarism well and were under constant observation, in order to change my image from something curious to be studied to a possible valuable asset for the army.
The army's battles were always between gods against demons, or gods against other gods.
By joining the army, I would have to fight these battles in the future, using both my personal divine power and my army of believers.
The advantage was that if I passed the test I was taking now, my rank in the army would already be higher than the other gods who failed, or even the ordinary soldiers who had just joined the army.
Sure, if I didn't want to follow anybody's orders, I could just opt out of the test and try to find a small world of my own in which to develop.
But what if that little world already had gods running it? Would I be able to deal with the consequences of those gods looking for me in the divine world?
That's why the option of clinging to a thigh as thick as the army's was so tempting.
Despite the duties it would entail, the benefits outweighed them many times over.
Not to mention the fact that the higher my rank in the army, the greater those benefits would be...
But putting that thought aside, I focused on the small world of the test.
I could stop thinking about the outside world, the army, battles against demons, battles against other gods, when I had already finished my test and found out the result.
Just thinking about what I would do when the test was over, with so many days left, was not a good use of my time.
A better use of it was to look at how my improved ranking could be used to further improve the Internet.
With 5% more efficiency in using my Divine Power, I could put 5% more resources into the Internet without decreasing my profit!
Honestly, I really wanted to start developing more complicated things like duel monster battles, but my current efficiency in using Divine Power was still far from being able to do something like that and still make a profit.
If it was just the card game, it would be more feasible, but with a user base that is over 60% illiterate and growing, what would be the point of adding a game that people can't even play right now?
I knew I had to be patient, both to wait for the current believers to become literate with Robert's classes, and to attract new believers who would directly increase the number of literate believers.
It was easy to know how many believers were literate and how many were not.
All I had to do was to look at how many users used [Carrier Pigeon] on a daily basis, since it was an application that was practically exclusive to users who could read.
The number of frequent users of that app was just over 4,000 people, which could be considered a relatively large number, because 4,000 people is no small number, but it still wasn't enough for me to have to think about developing something exclusively for them anytime soon.
Looking around the church, I noticed it was empty.
Curious, I searched for Robert among the believers with active Internet connections, and quickly found him standing in the middle of a large crowd in what looked like a stage for concerts or theatrical performances?
There were more than 300 people around him, 90% of them holding Internet books and the other 10% just listening to his explanation with curiosity and confusion.
These people probably didn't know about the God of the Internet and were just taking advantage of the free class.
Seeing this, I realized a big problem... even if Robert held classes in large, open places like this, the number of people he could teach would not be able to keep up with the growing number of illiterate believers...
Looking at the Internet screen again, I decided to do a test.
With more than 20,000 Divine Power Points available to me, I decided to do another test.
Putting audio on the Internet...
Thinking back to my old world, radio seemed much easier than television itself, and according to the tests I did, putting audio on the Internet was much cheaper than putting video on the Internet.
But the fact that audio was cheaper than video didn't mean that the audio itself was cheap.
Putting one minute of audio on the Internet costs 10 Divine Power Points... that's 20 believers' prayers, if I were to put an hour of audio on, it would cost at least 600 Divine Power Points!
So I did a test to find out how much it would cost to listen to the audio.
Fortunately, since my affinity for Divine Power had increased and my efficiency in using it had taken a giant leap, the cost of listening to the 60-minute audio was only 1 Divine Power Point!
Now it was time for me to think about what would be best for me.
Let the public become literate slowly and reap the rewards later with less investment, or invest heavily and accelerate the speed at which believers become literate?
For the cost of 1 Divine Power Point, I could allow each believer to listen to only 1 hour of lessons on the Internet per day, so I would no longer receive the equivalent of 2 hours of profit from each illiterate believer per day, and in 30 days, virtually all of the believers who listened to Robert's audio with the blessing would be able to read and write on the Internet.
But to continue this meant that I would receive 1 less Divine Power Point from each believer per day.
Since my number of illiterate believers was just over 6,000 people, that meant 6,000 fewer Divine Power Points each day...
The more the number of illiterate devotees increased, the more Divine Power I would lose because of these audio lessons.
But when I thought about how much I would earn in the future when everyone could read and write... there was no reason for me to hesitate any longer, I knew that the only viable option was to develop this, to deal with the Divine Power that I would stop earning for a while, but then profit a lot when everyone could read and write.
So I thought about how to develop this for the future, and I started spending Divine Power to make the latest application on the Internet.
[School]
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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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