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God of Internet [LitRPG] by NunuXD

04 - Development of the Internet

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Since the Internet didn't exist, the gods didn't understand many concepts of the Internet that could be very useful for the development of believers and how it could be used to get more prayer.

The first thing I thought of was the unique experience I had when I went on a trip with the college team to South Korea and what the culture of cyber cafes was like, or as they called it there, PC Bang.

In that place, even if people had the money to buy a good computer to use at home, they still got together with their friends in cyber cafes to play together.

The feeling of playing with friends in the same place was priceless, and I thought about developing a way to get a lot of prayers.

Considering that Koreans pay the equivalent of $1 to use the Internet for an hour in cyber cafes, couldn't I do the same for my services?

As long as I could develop an Internet for mortals, I could easily charge them a prayer to use the Internet for an hour.

That way, if I could get the cost of running this Internet to be less than 1 Divine Power Point, which is how much I get per prayer, I'd be making a profit!

Of course, the other gods only received 1 Divine Power point directly, since they had no cost per believer, while I would have to spend a fraction of Divine Power to make the Internet work for them, which would reduce my profit.

But there was an advantage, no one would use the Internet just once a week, most likely people would set aside at least a few hours a day to use the Internet, which means several prayers every day from a single believer.

Even if the cost of operation was relatively high, I would still profit from the high volume of prayers I would receive!

The problem is... since what I was going to do wasn't a real Internet, I would have to develop a way to use my divinity and divine power as a server for this Internet in such a way that mortals could use it, as well as develop some interesting applications to get them interested in the Internet and make them want to continue using it as much as possible.

Since my main priority was to develop my Internet and a way to make a server for it, I left the idea of applications for later and concentrated on developing that.

So the first thing I did was to make a list of essential things to develop.

1 - Develop a very simple and intuitive interface so that even people from ancient times could understand everything very easily.

2 - Develop a way for the interface that appeared to one person to react in real time to what another person posted on the Internet, creating real time communication and a real Internet.

3 - Optimize all this so that the cost of this in divine power for me was as low as possible.

4 - Develop the applications that were initially available.

Fortunately, my dormitory had food, so I could concentrate in my room all the time while I developed these necessary items for my Internet, without having to worry about going out to eat or interacting with other young gods.

According to Adrian's old experiences, most of his experiences at this school were very bad.

The gods of this world, especially the gods of this school, were very selfish.

You only had value as a person if you proved to others how valuable you could be and how useful you could be in their lives.

Since old Adrian had none of that, was the last student in the class, had a weak personality, and was easily intimidated, few people took him seriously and treated him with respect.

There were rare exceptions of people who treated him with respect and courtesy, and considering that I didn't have the patience to deal with spoiled and arrogant people like that, but also didn't have the strength to stand up and fight back against people like Zack, the best thing I could do would be to isolate myself for the next few days and focus on my personal development.

And that's exactly what I did.

There were seven days left before the final exam for the school's graduation, where the students would finally be able to make contact with mortals and get their first believers, so that was my deadline.

My first day, the day I came into this world, was largely spent planning and organizing.

The next day, I woke up early and went to class as usual, ignoring any bullying or teasing the students might do to me and just concentrating on learning whatever new knowledge the teachers could impart.

But while their knowledge was quite valuable, as they were Unique Gods, a rank above Elementary Divinity, the knowledge they passed on was of little use to me.

Most of their explanations were spent on how the gods could convert Divine Power into a more powerful attack, or how to make the believers believe that they were all-powerful beings, creating fear, chaos, hope, and all sorts of ideological manipulation.

While this would be very useful if I was a deity focused solely on combat, as the god of creativity, none of this was relevant to me.

This showed me much of the reason why the old Adrian was so weak and showed so little potential. Even the teachers couldn't see the potential in him and didn't bother to find a better alternative for him.

It's not like I can unleash a wave of creativity on the enemies and make them more creative and win the war, right?

So, realizing that classes were almost useless to me, I started pretending to pay attention in class while mentally planning how to continue with my plan.

Returning to my dorm after class without talking to anyone, I focused on my to-do list.

1 - Develop a very simple and intuitive interface so that even people from ancient times could understand everything intuitively.

Thinking that the test world would be a small medieval world with swords and magic, but with a low level of power, I already ruled out very modern interfaces.

Eliminating unrealistic ideas, I was left with only two viable ideas.

When the believer prays, a scroll or book opens in front of him. On this scroll/book will be drawings like smartphone app icons from my previous world, indicating what each app is for, with text underneath with the name of the app.

The texture of this parchment will be the same as high-quality parchment that mortals are familiar with, and I will use the touchscreen method for browsing the web.

That way, mortals will be able to browse like on a modern smartphone, but using an archaic object that they know and are familiar with.

The only thing I haven't decided is whether to use the interface as a book or a scroll... maybe both?

The cost of making both interfaces wouldn't be too high, and I could give users the choice of which interface they feel more comfortable with.

So with all this planned out, I set about using my divine power to develop this interface while saving as much as possible.

Doing all this in a purely aesthetic way was very easy, I hardly spent more than 1 Divine Power Point, the problem was developing the functionalities of it and how it would react and work.

To make the texture of the paper responsive to the touch, to make the "screen" of the scroll detect and respond to the touch, to make it capable of changing in real time based on the user's touch, to make a settings menu where the user could adjust the font size, things like that, and the most expensive, to make it a standard that could be invoked at any time, all of that required Divine Power.

[Divine Power: 3,350 / 10,000 -> 3,000 / 10,000].

A total of 350 Divine Power points, to be exact, but looking at the result in front of me, it was as if I was holding an iPad from my previous world, only with a parchment skin.

The book version, on the other hand, was like a Galaxy Z Fold, the screen worked by touching the entire inside of the book, even though it was folded, giving the user more privacy in exchange for more practicality.

With both versions working in front of me, a big smile appeared on my face, satisfied enough to cross one item off my list, leaving only 3 items to be developed over the next few days.

1 - Develop a very simple and intuitive interface so that even people from ancient times could understand everything very easily.

2 - Develop a way for the interface that appeared to one person to react in real time to what another person posted on the Internet, creating real time communication and a real Internet.

3 - Optimizing all of this so that the cost to me in divine power was as low as possible.

4 - To develop the first available applications.

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God of Internet [LitRPG] by NunuXD

05 - First App

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This was the next task on the list that I began to develop.

2 - Develop a way for the interface that appeared to one person to react in real time to what another person posted on the Internet, creating real time communication and a real Internet.

Frankly, it was both easy and expensive.

Simple because developing it for my divinity wasn't too difficult considering the knowledge I already had with programming and the fact that with "creativity" I could use logical commands for what I was developing, and expensive because I had to develop a communication system between the user interfaces of the prayers.

The communication system I developed for these screens was a server.

A partition of my Divine Power that would store the important information from the Internet and transmit it to whoever needed it at that time.

For example.

If a user opened a page from a library App, the server would send information about the books available, the price to read each book, if there was a price, and it would load the pages of the book for the user to read.

If the user wanted to leave a comment on that book, that comment would be sent to the server I developed and stored for distribution to the next users who requested that information.

The problem I had in developing this part was that storing information on the server was very expensive.

Just storing the contents of a book cost 1 Divine Power Point, so once the server was ready, I had to move on to the third item on my to-do list.

3 - Optimize all of this so that the cost to me in Divine Power was as low as possible.

It wasn't surprising to me that this was the most time-consuming part so far.

As a developer, "developing" has always been the most fun part, the problem is that from this part, everything always came out very heavy, and then came the boring part... "optimizing".

So I spent the next two days optimizing.

Since I couldn't make an interface communicate directly with each other, and communicating each action from the screen to the server used a lot of divine power, I had to make a filter on the user screens where each action would ask if it needed an internet connection or not, if not it would just execute the action locally, if yes it would send that command to the server, and the server would send that information to the other screens.

Basically a simple use of "if or else" with divine power.

This was enough to greatly reduce the cost of divine power for using the Internet screen.

To store the data on the server, I had to encrypt and compress the data.

In this way, the cost of storing external data was a little higher, but in compensation, all the internal data of the Internet would be transferred more easily, faster, and take up less space.

My total Internet development time was already at 4 days, counting the day I came to this world, leaving me only 2 days to finish developing my Internet and get in touch with the mortals who could possibly become my believers.

Seeing how little time I had, I had to cut down on my sleep and spend more waking hours developing the most important part of the Internet, the content!

Keeping in mind that the users were middle-aged people, I had to be very selective about what Apps I would develop and how I would get people interested in the Internet.

To do this, I looked at the main focuses a person might have when using the Internet.

1 - Entertainment: This was the most obvious selling point of the Internet in my previous world. I needed to create an App or Apps where the user could find interesting things to do while using the Internet.

2 - Personal development: This was an important point to give value and credibility to the Internet, an App that had knowledge, advice, or things like that that would make the user feel like their time on the Internet wasn't wasted because they were getting something out of it.

3 - Utility: This point focused on Apps that could make people's lives easier. For example, if a person needed to send a message to relatives who lived in another country or were traveling, it would normally take days for the message to be delivered, but with a messaging app it would happen instantly.

With these three points, I was confident that I could get mortals interested in the Internet and make it something important and possibly essential to them.

So I wanted to start with my first app idea, which could include both entertainment and personal development!

[Library]

This app, as the name implies, was a virtual library where the user could choose which book he wanted to read, and he could read it at any time, just by praying to me.

To make it more interesting, I based it on the novel sites I read in my previous world and made it so that books could be voted on, could have reviews, and chapters could have comments, which would make the reader feel like they were reading with friends, like a book club, which would make the reading experience much more fun.

The problem with this was how I would go about adding books to the library...

Out of curiosity, I looked at the clock and saw that it was 4:50 p.m., still early.

So I decided to go to the school library to see what books were available.

Since old Adrian never went to the library, I had no idea what I would find there.

Seeing the various students playing with their divinity brought a smile to my face every time I saw them, because it was always so interesting to see such magical things happening in front of me.

This gave me the motivation to continue developing the Internet so that I would reach a point where I would have enough divine power to use my divinity for fun, just like I did on my first day in this world.

For the time being, my focus was only on work, on dedicating myself to evolving and meeting the deadline for my final exam.

When I arrived at the library, the place was pretty empty, but there were still a few students curiously holding books.

Looking curiously through the shelves, I noticed that most of the books were autobiographies of the gods, some were interesting stories that the gods had observed in the mortal world, while others were explanations and tips on how to develop divine abilities in certain directions.

The books that were most useful to me were the ones that told stories about mortals, so I picked one up with interest.

But as I read these books, the excessive use of formal and complicated language, the excessive and annoying points of view and comments of the gods who wrote them, so many points that made it so boring and tedious to read...

I put down the book I'd stopped reading, got up and started walking around the library, looking at the books on the shelves for something interesting.

Until I found something that caught my eye.

"Mortal Magic: Apprentice"

Just as the title said, this was a book about how mortal magic worked, with very detailed and well-written explanations of mortal magic that completely covered the level of Magical Apprentice.

Surprised, I realized that this book might be quite useful for the Internet, so I read it thoroughly, trying to store the information in my mind so that when I got home, I could use my divinity to send it to the Internet server.

When I saw the author's name, I wasn't too surprised.

"Morgana Arcanis, Goddess of Magic."

The Goddess of Magic, one of the most powerful goddesses in the divine world, with followers in thousands of worlds, from small worlds to gigantic worlds, Morgana was a symbol of prestige in the divine world.

According to the notes she left at the end of the book, this book was something she wrote purely out of boredom, and that she hoped it might serve as an inspiration to the other gods on how to handle their divinity, and how to make it more didactic for mortals should they need it.

Looking for more books like this, I found several different volumes!

"Mortal Magic: Arcane Mage"

"Mortal Magic: Master Mage"

"Mortal Magic: Sage Mage"

"Mortal Magic: Archmage"

Perhaps Morgana didn't bother to make these books available to other gods because they wouldn't be of any use to them except as a reference, since gods couldn't use magic that wasn't related to their deity.

But she didn't imagine that I could create an Internet and use all this knowledge to attract more people to become my followers, did she?

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God of Internet [LitRPG] by NunuXD

06 - Internet Ready

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With how little time I had to start my test and launch the Internet among mortals, I wouldn't be able to read all the books in that short time and still develop other applications, so I decided to do something to get around that.

If I made the books available for free on the website, perhaps believers wouldn't value it as much, so I thought I would make something like a virtual currency on the Internet.

This currency would be something that the believer would receive for each consecutive day that he accessed the Internet.

On the first day he would receive 1 IC (Internet Coin), on the second day he would receive 2 IC, on the third day 3 IC, until the seventh day where he would receive 7 IC.

This would be a total of 28 Internet Coins for a streak of 7 consecutive days of logging on to the Internet, a very common mechanic among the games developed in my previous world, which I even used in my own game to increase user retention and try to create a routine where they played my game every day without penalty.

With these Internet Coins, users could buy the books from the App [Library], so they would possibly feel that the books were even more deserved by them, while I could create a way to not make some of the more advanced magic books available.

The more advanced the magic book was, the more Internet coins it would cost, so users could see that there was an Archmage-class magic book available for them to read, which would motivate them to collect more Internet coins, but since it would cost a lot, they would have to collect them for a long time before they could finally read that book.

By the time someone finally collected enough IC, I would have read the book in the divine world, and the book would already exist for real users.

The Apprentice Mage book would cost 1 IC, making it available for anyone to read even if it was their first Internet access, while the Arcane Mage book would cost 100 IC, the Master Mage book would cost 1,000 IC, the Sage Mage book would cost 10,000 IC, and the Archmage book would cost 100,000 IC.

Making these books cheap would reduce their value from the users' point of view, so it was impossible to make an Archmage book cheap.

But considering that a user would receive 28 IC per week, until he had accumulated 100,000 IC, he would have to use the Internet every day without fail for 74 years, something completely unimaginable, so I thought of something that could help both me and mortals.

For every new user you invited, you would receive 10 IC, which means that if a user invited 12 people to the Internet and they prayed to me at least once, the person who invited them would receive the equivalent of a month's worth of IC!

And now my main idea for making the library have a large amount of content.

If a user wrote a book for the [Library], for every sale of that book, the user would receive 70% of the IC that the readers spent to read it, thus opening the door for the users themselves to earn enough Internet Coins to read whatever they wanted, however much they wanted.

This Internet Coin part was very complex and something I could develop with much more enthusiasm in the future, but since I had little time, I left it at that and focused on continuing to make content.

I had already converted the magic books I had read for the server, but that only completed the "Personal Development" item on my content list, so to complete the "Entertainment" item, I shamelessly converted some of my memories of novels I had read in my old world into books for the [Library].

A novel about a farmer who unknowingly cultivates himself as a mage and whose chicken gradually turns into a phoenix to protect the farm was something I was sure would be a hit with mortals, since in a medieval world, the vast majority of users would be commoners.

To entertain nobles as well, I made novels that focused more on politics and power games.

The total number of novels I transferred from my memory to the server was 10.

Since the novels in my previous world had many chapters, instead of posting just one long chapter, I divided the novels into several volumes, and each volume cost only 1 IC.

Considering that it would take users days to read the books in their spare time, the amount of IC they would receive would be more than they would spend reading the novels, allowing them to save IC to buy Personal Enhancement books without sacrificing their entertainment.

After completing these two parts of [Library], I began to develop the next application.

[Carrier Pigeon]

While [Library] focused on meeting the criteria of entertainment and personal development, [Carrier Pigeon] would focus on entertainment and utility.

This application was made using as a reference one of the most used social networks in my previous world, mixed with the most used forum in the world, the social network that used a small blue bird as its logo, but which was replaced by a letter from adult sites as its new logo after a billionaire bought it, and a forum that used an orange robot as its logo.

The icon I made for this social network was even a blue bird with an envelope in its mouth, which made it very clear what this application was about.

Even if there were social networks with more users instead of this one, the format of this social network would be much better suited to a middle-aged world.

Users' posts would be displayed in a forum format, just like the orange forum used in my previous world, which was much simpler and more intuitive for new users.

But there was also a personalized feed for each user based on who they followed, allowing them to send messages directly to other Internet users instantly.

Since starting the application empty would have been very uninteresting for users, I myself used several fake accounts to make fake posts to give the impression that this was being used and that users were not alone in doing so, already serving as a way to show how to use the social network.

I even thought about making games to start with the Internet, but the cost would be extremely high, something I couldn't afford yet, not to mention the development time, which would be much longer than the time to make the simple applications I had just made.

But if I could get believers to constantly give me divine power, this would no longer be a problem for me, and I could let my imagination run wild.

At this point, I was already exhausted.

When I looked at the clock on the wall, I saw that it was already 3:30 a.m., and I had only three and a half hours to sleep before I had to go to school to take the final exam.

So I just dragged my exhausted body to bed and passed out.

Shortly after, I had to wake up and get dressed for class.

I just splashed some cold water on my face, brushed my teeth, and checked my status screen before going to school.

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| Character Status

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| Name: Adrian Innovashine

| Title: God of Creativity.

| Level: Embryonic Divinity Rank 1

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| Divine Power: 3,000 / 10,000 -> 1,463 / 10,000

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I've spent nearly 2,000 Divine Power points on the overall development of the Internet.

At this point, I believe that I have the least Divine Power among the students.

This might be a sign of weakness to the other gods, who only use Divine Power for battles or blessings, but to me it was an investment.

When I arrived at the classroom, I just kept my normal attitude that I had maintained for the last 7 days.

I didn't look at anyone, I didn't bother to talk to anyone, I just sat in my chair and waited for the teacher to come into the room.

The other students were chatting excitedly about today's test, for many of them it would be the first time they'd come into contact with mortals.

"I'm so excited to go to a small world... will the mortals make statues of me?" One girl asked her friend.

"I think so, from what I've heard it's quite normal for mortals to make statues of us, all we have to do is show up a few times, act wisely, give a few blessings and they'll go crazy for us." replied her friend.

Seeing the gods' disdain for mortals didn't make me angry, even though I was a mortal in my previous life, it just made me feel sorry for them, for wasting such a good opportunity because of their arrogance.

But in part, it wasn't their fault, it was more the fault of the more powerful gods who had taught them that it was meant to be that way, so they just took it as absolute truth.

"Young gods, follow me." Our teacher spoke from the classroom door.

As soon as the students heard his command, they all stood up and quickly followed him to the examination room.

Thinking that everything I'd worked for in the past seven days was for this, I felt my hands sweat a little with excitement, but an almost imperceptible smile appeared on my face.

When I realized this, I quickly hid my smile and went back to a neutral expression, thinking that no one had seen it.

But what I didn't know was that a pair of curious eyes had noticed my little smile and were surprised by it.

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