With the disappointing "fight" I had against Zack, I realized that something very important was happening to me.
Letting Zack attack me without fighting back, letting him prepare his attacks, seeing the look of disappointment and fear on his face may have been very satisfying for me, but it was an arrogance that I was developing.
I was becoming arrogant because of the Divine Power I had accumulated, because of how much Divine Power I was receiving every day, and it was making me as proud as the other students of the Divine School.
And I detested that.
Just because I easily won a battle against the God of Fear and had an advantage over Zack in terms of Divine Mastery, didn't make me a better God than anyone else...
If I had been less arrogant towards Zack and had really dedicated myself to this battle, he wouldn't have escaped.
And when I realized that, I took a deep breath and cleared my mind, both in the mortal world and in the divine world.
"Don't let this arrogance go to your head, Adrian..." I said softly in the divine world. "You may have become a god, but you are a god in name only, stop having the divine arrogance and don't become an abomination like the Greek pantheon..."
Thinking about all the gods I'd heard about and how abominable it would be to become like them, I managed to bring my mind back to how I should be, with the mind of a normal person who came from Earth.
"When I meet Zack again, I won't be arrogant and I will deal with him as soon as possible." I said determinedly.
Zack and Lucy were the main students I had to watch out for, and with Lucy on my side, only Zack was left to stand in my way.
And the best way to deal with him was to take advantage of the power vacuum left in Valoria and bring another kingdom under my control, this one the fourth.
Using the Internet, I quickly sent an order to my "emissaries" who were on a mission in that kingdom.
Sure, I wouldn't send them a message in an informal way like I did with my friends in the previous world, but I would use the way I used to talk to the inhabitants of that world.
Since they were all noble or aspiring to be, the best way to talk to them was to use noble and learned language.
=== Kevin POV ===
The atmosphere in Valoria was very confusing at the moment...
From what I could gather, the citizens were apparently scared and excited to realize that they had a god for a few weeks.
They imagined that with the Mountain God's blessing upon them, they would be able to prosper and live a better life.
At first, it even worked a little, as a few small miracles began to happen, such as the mountains stopping sliding and several lives being spared each week throughout the kingdom.
But this happiness was short-lived, for a few days ago, another god came to Valoria and battled the god of the mountains.
When the mortals realized this, they were shocked and frightened, and they even prayed to the mountain god to help their god in this battle, but in the end, their god died and they had to pray to a new god, the god of thunder.
Seeing how destructive the battle between the two gods was, the mortals became frightened and submitted to the God of Thunder.
But the people of Valoria had a hard time accepting the sudden change in their faith, and although they prayed to the God of Thunder out of obligation, no one really felt good about this new god who had killed their god.
When I heard all this, I was excited that the God of Arcantor was the God of the Internet, who had always been very fair and honest with us, only giving us benefits and never letting battles like this affect the people of Arcantor.
As I was getting ready to leave this small town where my trade caravan was, I felt my Internet book make a strange sound that I had never heard before, similar to the sound of a bell.
Out of curiosity, I picked up my Internet book and was shocked to find that I had received a message from the God of the Internet!
I quickly opened [Carrier Pigeon] and read the message he had sent me.
[My faithful and hardworking emissaries,
The God of Thunder attempted to invade Arcantor and was defeated by me, forcing him to return to his realm of origin, leaving Valoria without a god to lead the mortals.
Now that Valoria is without the presence of its former god, we are faced with a unique opportunity. The void once filled by the power of the Mountain God must now be filled by something new, something that can bring prosperity, knowledge, and a new era of growth to the people of Valoria.
I ask you to intensify your efforts to spread the word of the Internet to all regions of Valoria.
Bring the word of connectivity and knowledge to every village, town, and city. Show the people of Valoria the infinite possibilities that the Internet can offer them. From agricultural knowledge that can improve their crops to trade opportunities that can enrich their lives.
Remember, without a god to guide them, the people of Valoria will look for something to fill the void. Be the bearers of this new light, bringing not only the tools of prosperity, but also my presence into your lives.
Now is the time to seize this unique moment in history and expand my influence over Valoria. The victory of our cause depends on your efforts. I have faith in your wisdom and determination.
And don't worry, the rewards for your help will be as rich as the number of new believers you will gain.
Go forth, my emissaries, and may the light of the Internet shine brightly over all Valoria.
God of the Internet].
When I read this message, my blood began to boil.
Without the God of Valoria, and knowing the power and danger that the Gods represent after the battle that took place here between two Gods, the Valorians would surely know that being under the protection of a God would be the best thing they could do.
And who better to be that God, than the God of the Internet himself, the wisest and most benevolent God?
Especially since the God of the Internet even confirmed that the rewards for inviting the Valorians would be rich.
I smiled as I decided not to leave the city now, and planned to set up an Internet exhibition for the entire population, even spending a few PIC to summon my iMonster to show the population of this city the benefits of the Internet.
I knew how valuable iMonsters were to the city, so I was confident that I could convert the entire city into believers in the Internet God.
Since I no longer had to worry about the wrath of another god, I could act without restraint.
Considering that this town has a population of around 1,000 people, this would bring me a great reward, to the point where I could possibly buy a blessing from the Internet God himself!
=== Adrian's POV ===
As I looked at the emissaries scattered throughout Valoria, my smile grew wider and wider.
Luring these merchants with lucrative offers and fat rewards was the best thing to do.
Giving them the freedom to act as they wished and rewarding them for it was a sure profit.
Even if they drew some weaker blessings, the cost to me would only be a few thousand Divine Power points, nothing that would be missed with the amount of Divine Power I received on a daily basis.
Knowing that this side was pretty much done, I could focus on developing the more technical use of PIC on the Internet, and by the end of the day, I finally had the new functionality ready.
Now it could automatically calculate how much Divine Power I needed to transfer to Lucy on a daily basis.
The only thing left to do was to tell mortals how this new functionality worked.
But that wasn't the only thing I needed to focus on.
With the sound waves available to me on the Internet, I could now implement the use of music on the Internet!
With Lucy's divinity available, I could develop a music application and provide the population with a practical and easy way to listen to music at any time.
Even though there were already mortals who had graduated from the App [School] and learned to read and write in recent days, with the growing Internet population, the number of literate users was still very small.
With music and the benefits of Premium Internet Coins available to the population, I believe it would be enough to increase the average time spent on the Internet by a large margin.
Even if I had to pay Lucy 20% of the Divine Power I would get from it, as long as mortals used the Internet for an extra hour a day on average, I would get an extra 500,000 Divine Power points every day, and paying her 100,000 of them was very fair.
But to develop a music application, I need songs to make available on the application...
Even though I knew a lot of music from my previous world, only a few songs were suitable for a middle-aged population, and of the songs that were suitable, I didn't have enough musical knowledge to reproduce them well.
So I decided to ask for help.
If there were people I could ask for help, why try to do it on my own?
What I didn't know was what a pleasant surprise I was in for.
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[Do you want to make an App where believers can listen to music?]
Jaina asked me in a message on [Carrier Pigeon].
From her less formal tone, it seems that she was surprised by the idea of the app.
[Exactly, I imagined that making music available for mortals to listen to at any time would be a great way to improve people's quality of life, as well as encourage them to use the Internet longer and give me more divine power with it]. I honestly explained in a message back to her.
But while I was typing, I realized another big change I could make on the Internet.
Now that I could control sound waves, couldn't I develop a form of audio invocation?
So, ignoring Jaina's message for a few minutes, I quickly developed a small test version and called her.
Looking at her through my divine vision over the Internet, I could see Jaina's surprise when she noticed the message appearing on her screen.
[The God of the Internet is calling you, do you wish to accept the voice call?]
[Yes] [No]
The buttons had green and red icons representing the user's choice.
Confused, Jaina clicked [Yes] to see what it was, allowing me to speak freely to her without having to type.
"Hi Jaina." I said smiling.
When Jaina heard my voice coming from the Internet book, she was shocked and looked around in confusion.
"How are you talking to me?" She asked.
"Through the Internet, I've partnered with the Goddess of Waves, and with my knowledge and her divinity, I've developed this function. Right now, it's not available to the rest of the public, but in the future, all users will be able to use the Internet to voice chat with whomever they want, whenever they want." I smiled as I explained it to her.
Upon hearing this, Jaina was shocked.
Since I was the only one who could see her, it was like I was on a video call while she was on a voice call, but without her knowing.
"Right..." She said as she sighed, apparently giving up trying to understand me.
"So about my idea for an app so that mortals can listen to music, I developed this new app last night, it's already finished, I just need songs to fill it." I said as I gave her access to the app. "You can check the app on your internet, there's already a song I recorded as an example."
Hearing this, Jaina curiously minimized [Carrier Pigeon] and saw that there was a new app in her book.
The icon of the app was a beautiful golden harp with a magic circle around it showing golden musical notes floating around, with a blue background like a clear, cloudless sky.
Below the icon was the name of the application, [Mystic Melody].
Nodding her head, Jaina agreed with the icon and name of the application as she clicked on the application to see a white and gold interface.
In my previous world, people would have hated it, since the light theme was hated by 90% of Internet users, but in this world, I noticed that people liked to use the Internet's light screen as a method of lighting up at night, which made this app useful for that.
Could I make a flashlight app in the future to solve this problem for good? Yes, but for the app to be called a flashlight, the screen brightness would have to be much higher, which would potentially reduce my profit even more now, so I was waiting for my rank to rise to do that.
When I became an Elemental God, my efficiency in using Divine Power would increase so much that I could develop more expensive apps on the Internet, and I wouldn't have to worry about making a profit.
But for now, people would still have to make do with lighting themselves at night.
Sure, it's not like they were complaining.
They were already very grateful for the way things were, I was just annoyed that there wasn't a flashlight app because I knew how useful such an app was in my previous world.
While I was thinking about this, Jaina listened to "Ave Maria" on the app and nodded in satisfaction.
Since this was one of the few classical songs from my previous world that I remembered very well and that would fit well in this world, I chose this song as an example.
From Jaina's expression, I knew I had made the right choice, because when the song ended, she stared into space for a few minutes before turning back to the [Carrier Pigeon] application and talking to me.
"I just listened to your song... what a beautiful melody... it really lives up to the name [Mystic Melody]." Jaina said reverently. "Is this music from the Divine World by any chance?"
Smiling, I shook my head as I replied, even though she couldn't see it. "No, this is 100% music from the mortal world."
Hearing this, Jaina was even more surprised.
"That's amazing... even though I don't know any such amazing songs, one of the teachers at the Arcantor Magic School is trying to develop a branch of magic called 'Musical Magic', I think she would be very interested in the new app... how about I introduce her to Athenos?" Jaina suggested with a smile.
Hearing that made me curious. A mortal was developing magic based on music? That sounded very interesting.
Since I would have to discuss it with her, it would be best to do it in person, so I thought about it for a moment and answered Jaina.
"Alright, I'll be there in a few minutes." I said.
"Okay, I'll invite you to my office." Jaina said, making me nod and hang up the phone.
Soon after, I descended into the mortal world through the marble body that was on standby in a room in the church.
When I came out of the room, I was surprised to see at least a hundred people sitting in the pews listening to Father Robert preach about the God of the Internet!
As soon as these people saw me, they quickly stood up and bowed in respect, leaving me surprised and smiling at them as I raised my hand.
"Thank you for coming to pray to the God of the Internet, may your day be better." I said in a calm voice as I used 1,000 Divine Power points to bless these 100 people, giving each of them small blessings of 10 Divine Power points.
These blessings were very weak compared to the blessing I gave to Robert, but these blessings would slightly help with the health and energy these people would have for the next 24 hours.
Seeing the blue light fly from my hand to their bodies, and perhaps feeling the change they had experienced, the people became even more excited and all bowed to me.
"Don't focus on me people, focus on Father Robert and have a great day." I said as I said goodbye and walked towards Arcantor Magic School.
Unfortunately, my walk was much less smooth than I had imagined.
Since the Internet had become popular with practically everyone in Arcantor, the description of Athenos, the emissary of the God of the Internet, had already become popular with the people, especially my haircut, which was different from the people of that time, made me easily stand out from the crowd in the capital.
"Lord Athenos, please bless my son!" A woman said as she held out a delicate baby to me.
As I looked at the child, on a whim I gave him a blessing, but this blessing was different.
This was a blessing from the God of Creativity, increasing the creativity that this child would have in the future.
Seeing this, more and more people asked for blessings or good words from me, delaying my trip to Arcantor Magic School by 40 minutes and costing me 5,000 Divine Power Points.
Of course, I could have done it without spending anything, but the 5,000 Divine Power Points I spent compared to how much people talked about Athenos and the gratitude they felt towards him and the God of the Internet was worth much more than those 5,000 points.
When I arrived at Arcantor Magic School, this time the guards recognized me at first glance and were extremely polite to me.
I just smiled at them, gave them a basic blessing of 10 Divine Power Points of Creativity, and made my way to Jaina's office to meet with the music-focused magician.
I was curious to know how this woman focused on developing music-related spells.
In my previous world, there were several characters who did such things, which gave me hope and curiosity as to how she would do it.
What I didn't know was that the path I had taken to the Arcantor Magic School by blessing people was earning me more goodwill from the populace than I had imagined.
People who had been blessed or who had seen me bless others posted about it on the Internet, and others even wanted to see who had been blessed to try to get some of the blessing for themselves.
When the testimonies of people from the church went online, this trend became even stronger, and Lord Athenos became one of the most talked about topics in Arcantor on [Carrier Pigeon], and even became popular in the other three kingdoms that had access to the Internet!
So much so that when I arrived at Jaina's office, I was surprised to see Jaina staring at me wordlessly with a wry smile on her face, her Internet book showing the [Carrier Pigeon] icon.
Next to Jaina, a young girl with long blue hair and a water iMonster around her neck was staring at me with sparkling eyes.
What was surprising to me was that the appearance of this blue-haired girl reminded me of a music-oriented character from my previous world...!
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