The Internet Is Very Important

Tenjin looked at the various updates Spirit World underwent with little interest.

Truthfully, the trillions of souls within weren't really all that important to him anymore. Even if he didn't rely on the percentage of soul power continuously empowering his own soul, the current level of his unnamed cultivation method was powerful enough now that it provided almost a third of the energy being used for cultivating his soul alone.

Considering the multiplicative nature of spiritual power with physical strength, he was probably strong enough to crush the Earth entirely into dust with a casual slap.

Directing his senses to a particular soul bond, Xiao Nü seemed to be fine, though bored. Although, sensing her current power level, Tenjin wondered if there was even a need for Spirit World in the first place. It seemed, during his universe-destroying spree for quick and easy power, Xiao Nü had inadvertently made several breakthroughs directly to Tier 31.

Hm.

Now that he thought about it, Xiao Nü didn't really need a body right now, and Tenjin didn't really need Xiao Nü for anything recently either.

Right, she can wait a little longer in Spirit World.

Retreating his consciousness from Spirit World, he considered his next project.

Thinking on his earlier idea of making empowered artifacts and scattering them throughout the world, he decided to shelve the project to further think upon later. Tenjin wasn't really sure he wanted to give more power to humanity again. He ended up just wasting quite a bit of his time with Spirit World, after all.

However, that meant he was still lost on what exactly he should make next.

. . .

Well, he has all the time he needs to figure it out.

Meditate on it, maybe? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When Hoshikawa Tenjin had been contemplating about what sort of hobbies he could pick up to entertain himself with, although he had ended up choosing handcrafting, he had considered singing and dancing as secondary hobbies as well.

Although he personally didn't really understand why others liked to sing and dance, it was just ten stars of [Inspired Inventor] to invest in; he could easily afford to throw away charges now that power wasn't something he cared much for anymore.

Even if Tenjin ended up not enjoying it as much as those who did, song and dance were actually alternative methods of crafting and enchanting so he could at least experiment with this type of application later.

Personally, he didn't really think he was going to be dancing much, if at all. Singing, on the other hand, can be done casually without interfering with any work being done with the rest of his body.

The fact that the singing and dancing charges resonated with dozens of other subjects he learned is something he found quite curious, honestly.

The thought that just some casual humming with some mana in his mouth could mobilize all the mana particles around him into complicated immense spell patterns frankly made Tenjin feel like singing dancing war mages on the battlefield might actually be a real thing, and the idea that such a thing was possible just made him giggle.

That said, after he had expended charges for 'Song', he realized that he probably should've learned 'Music' too, soon after. Or rather, music was more versatile than singing when comparing useful applications.

Magically supercharging a song of violence and war without properly directed intent probably wasn't the greatest idea when hiding himself from the wider world, but it wasn't as if anyone would've managed to find him with either mundane or supernatural methods of detection anyway.

The earth and air beating and shifting in tempo with the music was a little interesting, at least.

On the other hand, inducing a gigantic and very active thunderstorm covering an eighth of Japan for half an hour with just four minutes of casual song and dance implies good things on the rather high level of potency of the combination of music, song, and dance. Especially considering Tenjin barely used any energy at all to do so.

Other than confusing the local populace on why the air and earth beating to the tune of vaguely familiar music, Tenjin did some smaller controlled tests with casting some spells, too. Although the method still worked fine, the cast time of smaller spells was much longer than simply brute-force channeling mana into the spell pattern and the effort needed to sing and dance along a certain route merely meant that song and dance simply weren't viable for small-scale spell usage. Even if spells were less costly and more effective that way, speed was almost always the better choice in a limited battlefield.

His few tries at crafting incorporating sung enchantments with avatars doing a ritualistic dance felt quite awkward, though. He wasn't really sure if he wanted to bother with this kind of method if he didn't feel comfortable with doing it while crafting.

At least the attempts had given him an idea for what to do next.

Even if he decided to spend his idle days making whatever he felt like making and not involve himself with the rest of the world, that didn't mean he should just isolate himself and completely ignore everything else. After all, the current era was a great time for all sorts of entertainment and spiritually satisfactory media.

Yes, no need to ignore all those games, fictions, movies, anime, comics, and other interesting things, right? He needed internet access, a computer, and accompanying devices to enjoy all the good stuff online.

So, Tenjin was going to build himself a new hyper-advanced, magically enhanced supercomputer for entertainment purposes. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hoshikawa Tenjin felt a little frustrated.

When he set out to connect to the wider world through the internet a mere ten hours ago, he expected to need to invent a few new technologies for maximum enjoyment.

What he didn't expect, however, was how annoying it was to have his godlike computer system interact with a bunch of irritatingly primitive technology.

Tenjin wasn't a mundane human. Normally, current digital media relies on technology built off of relying on the understanding of how humans' senses and brain worked. Like how a movie typically has two dozen frames per second, but people register the frames as a moving picture.

Unfortunately for Tenjin, he did not have such weak senses. Movies and the like, thus, appeared choppy, broken, and irritated him.

A minor problem, easily fixed, but merely one of many - especially when considering technical problems.

Currently, he was pondering on the pros and cons between settling with subpar internet speed or overhauling the entire network for as-near-instant-as-possible connection. Zero lag was frankly sounding rather preferable right now.

Well, to start, he needed to make a translation program for his system to properly connect and use the current level of programming technology without frequently glitching among many other things he needed to do.

. . .

Best get started, he supposed.