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God of Internet [LitRPG] by NunuXD
10 - Spreading the Internet
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After telling them how to use the Internet and encouraging them to use social media, I decided to take my mind off the statue and just watch.
My job as God wasn't to hold the hands of mortals and show them everything they should do, I just wanted to guide them from a distance while I let the Internet spread.
So after my consciousness left the statue, my facial features remained on the statue, but all the colors of the statue disappeared, leaving only the cold white marble in place.
The believers looked at the statue for a few more seconds before gathering around to talk about me and what to do now that the God they had been waiting for had appeared.
Since I had taken the statue as my own, my divine consciousness could see a few hundred meters around the statue, but nothing beyond that.
So even though I wasn't there in person, I was able to hover above them and observe their conversations without them knowing.
"What are we going to do now, Father Robert?" Amber asked.
"As believers in the God of the Internet, nothing could be fairer than to spread the word about the Internet to other people." The old man replied after some thought.
"Even if it wasn't an obligation, I still wanted to teach my son the prayer of the God of the Internet... since he's six now, if he could start learning magic from an early age via the Internet, it might open up an opportunity for him to join the Magic Academy as a student when he gets older." Jay said his thoughts, surprising the other people.
"That is true... with the knowledge of magic that the God of the Internet makes available on the Internet, as long as that knowledge is used wisely, it can change lives." Father Robert commented.
Brianna also realized something. "Not to mention that if my relatives who live in the villages around the city knew how to use the Internet, we could even stay in touch from afar."
After hearing her idea of using the [Carrier Pigeon], the other believers were also surprised at how useful it really was!
The only fear they still had was about the safety of praying to one God so many times in one day.
Even though they had been praying regularly in this church for months, some even for years, they only prayed once a week at most.
And because their prayer never had a goal, they never felt the weakness they feel today when they pray to the God of the Internet.
This weakness caused by prayer made them a little worried about the side effects of prayer.
"Have you realized that we might not be the only believers in the God of the Internet?" Father Robert asked in a serious voice, piquing the interest of the other believers.
"What do you mean?" Amber asked confused.
Turning his book over and showing it to them, the priest explained. "As you can see, there are several other 'publications' or comments in the books that were made a few days ago, and since the Internet God only appeared to us today, this means that there are already people elsewhere who know about the Internet God and pray to him as well."
When they saw this, they realized that they had overlooked this point.
They only noticed that there were other comments on the Internet, but they didn't realize that they might have been made by other people in other places.
When they opened the [Carrier Pigeon], they began to pay attention to how these people talked, what they talked about, and from the way these people acted, they deduced that these people might live somewhere far away from their city, perhaps in a city on the outskirts of the Arcantor Kingdom.
"How about we ask these people how this prayer fatigue works and if there are any side effects?" Amber suggested, making the group look surprised.
"I think that's a good idea." Father Robert commented. "Amber, can you do the 'post' for us?"
"I think so..." Amber replied a little unsure, but clicked on "post" anyway.
[Hello fellow believers in the God of the Internet, today is my first day on the Internet and I'm having doubts about prayer and the fatigue it causes, can anyone enlighten me on this?] She wrote in the most formal and beautiful way she could think of, even asking other people for tips on how to make her message as polite as possible, and after some consideration, she finally clicked 'Send'.
The problem was that there were no other users on the Internet.
All the posts about [Carrier Pigeon] and the comments on the book chapters were made by me using accounts with fake nicknames.
But when I realized that my early followers believed that these fake accounts were real people, I could take advantage of that to help them clear up some doubts without them knowing it was me.
"Someone replied!" Amber replied excitedly when she saw a bell with a notification [1] in the corner of the screen.
Clicking on the bell, Amber saw the message that appeared.
[LadyBug replied to your message!]
[LadyBug liked your post!]
Clicking on this message updated her post, and Amber saw that there was now a thumbs up icon below the post with a number 1 next to it, indicating that a person liked what she had posted, which made her very happy!
[Ladybug: I had the same doubt as you when I first prayed to the God of the Internet, don't worry, it's normal, the tiredness is really a bit uncomfortable at first, and it can affect you during the day, so the recommended thing is not to use the Internet too much at the beginning of the day, and leave it for the evening, because you can sleep later. But when you wake up, it's as if nothing happened and you can pray again without any problems].
Reading the message aloud, both Amber and the others in the group were relieved to hear this response.
"It looks like this is really what Lord Athenos said." Jay said with a sigh of relief.
Before anyone else could comment, another message appeared in Amber's book.
[CatNoir replied to your post!]
[CatNoir liked your post!]
Seeing that someone else had liked her post and commented back made Amber feel a very pleasant sense of satisfaction in her chest, making her feel very proud to see that yet another person she didn't know had liked something she had said.
[CatNoir: I divide my internet use into one hour in the morning, one hour in the afternoon and three hours in the evening, as the book screen is backlit, you can read at night in the dark as if it were still day!]
Seeing that you could read books even in the dark made the people in the group even more surprised.
Realizing that apparently praying to the God of the Internet wasn't as evil as they had feared, they became more confident about doing it.
So, after chatting some more, everyone went off to do their routines for the day.
Unfortunately, I couldn't keep an eye on them when they left the church, but when they prayed to me and activated the Internet, I could see where they were and what they were doing.
What I was doing was a major invasion of privacy for the levels of my old world, but for this world it was no big deal.
Of course, powerful mages might be able to tell if I was spying on them, since I was only a rank 1 embryonic god.
As my god rank increased and I became stronger, I would be able to hide my presence more easily, to the point where even archmages wouldn't be able to notice me.
After all, this was still a small world, and the maximum power level here was nothing compared to presences in larger worlds.
But since I was still at the lowest power level of a god, it wouldn't be a good idea to antagonize very powerful mages, especially with a god like me who lacked offensive power.
That was one of the main reasons why the gods underestimated the God of Creativity.
Even though I had the power of creation, the fact that I could even create living beings at the lowest power level was already a commendable achievement.
Everything I did was much more expensive than other gods.
If I wanted to make a fireball attack, I would use many times more divine power to make that fireball than a god with a directly related deity.
Just as I had been a jack-of-all-trades and master-of-none in my previous life, learning different areas of game and software development, I had never specialized in any of them.
Me being a god of creativity was exactly the same, I could do everything but nothing as well as the original gods of those things.
But unlike the previous God of Creativity, who suffered from the high cost of doing everything, I had found a great way to deal with this problem.
And when I saw how much divine power I had received on my first day in the mortal world, I had a big smile on my face.
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| Character Status
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| Name: Adrian Innovashine
| Title: God of Creativity, God of Internet
| Level: Embryonic Divinity Rank 1
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| Divine Power: 1,463 / 10,000 -> 1,495 / 10,000 (+32)
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On the first day alone, I had gained 32 Divine Power points, a number that I'm sure was at least among the top of my competitors, but a number that would surely shoot higher as time went on.
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When I looked at the 32 Divine Power Points I received at the end of the night, I had a big smile on my face.
After all the optimization I had done with the Internet, the cost of running the Internet for each user was 0.5 Divine Power Points per hour.
Considering that each user's prayer earned me 1 Divine Power point, this meant that I received 0.5 Divine Power points of profit per prayer from each believer.
The initial number of believers was 10 people, but from 10 people, it quickly grew to 16 by the end of the night when some of the believers showed the Internet to their family.
With their average use of 4 hours a day, taking into account some who used it for 6 hours and some who only had 2 hours a day to use the internet.
In total, they had prayed to me 64 times, but because of the operating cost of 0.5 Divine Power points, this meant that the Divine Power gain I received was "only" 32 points.
This may seem very low considering that I needed to collect 10,000 Divine Power points to become a Rank 2 Embryonic Deity, but to use another comparison, I was only receiving 20 Divine Power points a week from the teachers at school, and on my first day alone I had already received 60% more than I had in a week, 11 times more than the average I received in a day before I came to this world.
When the mortals went to sleep, I went to sleep.
Since only a part of my consciousness was in this small world, while my main consciousness was still in my body in the divine world, I needed my body to sleep in the divine world so that I could rest.
The school test was based on the results of the realm we were assigned to in this small world, and since time passed twice as fast in this small world as in the divine world, it meant that 8 hours of sleep in the small world would only be 4 hours of sleep in the divine world, so I divided my sleep to sleep twice in one day to synchronize the two places.
As my strength increased, the need for sleep would decrease, so this problem would disappear over time, but now that I was still only a Rank 1 Embryonic Divinity, I had to deal with this problem.
Even though my consciousness was split, my body was still functioning perfectly.
In fact, to my body, it felt like that part of my consciousness was in a VR world that my main consciousness saw as a computer screen.
I could still focus on things in the divine world, but I could also spend hours just looking at the small world without worrying about getting bored.
It was a difficult feeling to explain, but I think I passed on a playful idea.
...
When I woke up after 4 hours of sleep, my awareness of the small world woke up and I could feel that there were already believers connected to the Internet.
Out of curiosity, I used my power to see what people were doing.
Of the 9 users currently connected to the Internet, 8 were using the [Library], while only one was using the [Carrier Pigeon].
This user acted just like a normal person from my past world, lying lazily in bed while reading the feed of social media posts.
As for the users who were using the [Library], I noticed that four of them were in the same place, and one of them was a user who had logged in for the first time yesterday, and the other three users had prayed for the first time a few minutes ago.
So I decided to see what these three people were doing together.
- 3rd POV -
"Are you sure this is free?" A man asked skeptically as he held up the Internet book and looked in shock at the content he could read and learn for free.
"Yes, my son got into a lot of mischief yesterday morning, so my wife sent him to spend the day in the old church with Father Robert as punishment." The man said proudly, receiving nods from the other men.
This was a common occurrence. When children got into mischief, their parents would send them to church as punishment, because it was very boring to sit in church and listen to the priest talk about a God that nobody thought existed.
"But to our surprise, when the boy returned home, he came back with a delicate book with a drawing of a noble magician. You don't know how angry my wife was, she thought he had stolen it from some nobleman, she almost killed him with the beating she gave him, hahaha". The man laughed as he explained, and his friends laughed too as they imagined the scene.
"But while she was beating him up, the book magically disappeared, making her even more worried that the wizard had used something from the book and would come to our house to take revenge. Fortunately, the boy showed her that the book was actually summoned by a prayer to the God of the Internet, the God Father Robert had believed in for so long," the man explained. The man explained.
Hearing this explanation, the man's friends were even more surprised.
"How come Father Robert never taught this prayer before?" One of the men asked as he looked curiously at the delicate books in the library.
Even though he was a commoner who didn't usually read because he couldn't afford books, he always saw nobles and wizards walking around with books and was envious.
Now that he could read books that were just as fine, if not finer, than those of the nobles, the man was very excited.
"According to my boy, the messenger of the God of the Internet came down to the church yesterday and personally taught them this prayer." The man explained while looking at the corner of his [Library] screen with a broad smile.
Seeing the [32 Internet Coins] available in his account, the man felt very proud of the idea of introducing the Internet to his friends.
When he returned home, his son and wife were already using the Internet, so his wife invited him to join, and he received 10 Internet Coins for joining through her invitation.
Since he didn't have anyone to invite, he could only get the 1 Internet Coin from the daily check-in, which he used to buy a book to read.
Choosing the book with the most beautiful and elegant cover, a book that told the story of how a commoner who found a magical book had risen to become an Archmage, Sam stayed up late reading.
He had never imagined that reading could be so much fun, especially when he could see other readers' comments at the end of the chapters and laugh at the nonsense other people said.
This morning, when he logged on to the Internet for the first time, he realized that he could log on again and get 2 more Internet Coins.
But looking at the magic books and thinking about the story he had read the night before, Sam decided that he would try to invite his friends online to get the 10 Internet Coins that their invitation would bring him.
Sam's idea was simple, he would use 1 Internet Coin to buy the Apprentice Magic Book and dedicate himself to learning magic while collecting Internet Coins, so that if he learned well, he would have money to buy more advanced books in the future.
Thinking that he could be like the protagonist of the book he read, even though he was over 30 years old, Sam was still excited to dedicate himself to learning while feeling grateful to the God of the Internet for giving him this opportunity.
When he told his friends about the Internet God and how magical the Internet was, they received the news with a lot of doubt and skepticism.
But when he showed them the Internet book and explained its features, their eyes lit up with interest that made Sam laugh with pride.
Soon his friends were convinced to pray once, and he saw the 30 Internet Coins he received for these invitations added to the 2 Internet Coins he had in his account.
"Look, my wife just sent me a message!" Sam said excitedly as he pointed to his Internet Book, causing his friends to look at it with curiosity and interest.
Sam clicked on the message and saw it on his screen.
[Martha: "Sam, I managed to do the 'Lumos' spell! I think I have a talent for magic!]
Seeing this message from his wife, Sam was shocked and quickly replied.
As he awkwardly typed into the book, his friends were shocked.
"Since when is your wife a wizard, Sam?! Does she have a master?" One man asked, shocked and frightened.
"She's never had a master, she told me yesterday that she was going to buy the magic book with today's Internet coins to try it out, who knew she had the talent for it?" Sam replied, even more shocked by the news.
[Sam: That's great news wife, I'll be home soon to help you!]
Sam replied a little awkwardly on social media, but he quickly ignored the work he had to do today and rushed home to help his wife in any way he could.
If she really had magical talent, the money they would receive in the future would be far greater than what he earned as a butcher.
Seeing Sam running home to help his wife who had learned magic on the Internet, Sam's three friends looked at him with envy, but that was quickly replaced by anticipation when they saw that the book she had used to learn magic was also available to them.
'What if I have magical talent too? The three men mentally asked themselves as they spent their one Internet Coin to buy the magic book, dreaming that they too would have magical talent like Sam's wife.
Even if they didn't have any talent, couldn't they go home and see if their wives had any? And what about their children? The chances of at least one person in their family having magical talent were slim, but not zero!
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With the incentive of Internet Coins, Internet users invited more and more people.
What started as 10 people became 16 by the end of the day.
The next day, the number that started at 16 had jumped to 33 people, earning me a total of 77 Divine Power Points after deducting the cost of running the Internet.
Among the new users, their main focus was on the [Library], especially the books on magic, because of those 17 new people, 10 of them had learned about the Internet because of Sam and Martha's celebration of their newly discovered magical talent.
The curious neighbors were puzzled as to why Martha was celebrating so much and went to find out what was going on.
Martha even thought about keeping the Internet a secret and bragging about her magical talent, but seeing the opportunity to get 100 Internet Coins in front of her, Martha thought long and hard and told them about the Internet.
Following her example, they also started using the Internet and tried to learn how to use their friend.
But magical talent wasn't that common.
Out of the ten people who learned about the Internet from Martha, only one person discovered that he had a magical talent, but it was a very basic talent.
But for ordinary people like them, even though the talent was basic, it was still a great reason to celebrate.
The next day, the number of people who knew about the Internet increased even more.
From 33 people the day before, the number of believers had risen to 60 the next day!
Some people just learned about the Internet and didn't tell anyone, while others took advantage of the fact that no one knew about the Internet and told people they trusted so that they would receive Internet Coins for those invitations.
That day I received a total of 150 Divine Power Points through the prayers of these believers!
Considering that the average for an ordinary god was for a believer to pray to him only once a week to receive an average of 150 Divine Power Points a day, that god would have to have more than 1,000 believers, while I received the same amount of Divine Power with only 60!
I didn't know how the other gods in the other cities were doing, but considering how impressive their powers were, I had no doubt that there were gods with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of worshippers from a single demonstration of power.
Besides, while I was in a realm controlled by logic-driven wizards who didn't care much for gods, as evidenced by how empty the local church was before I showed up, my competitors probably didn't have it that hard.
But I didn't let that deter me.
My growth might be slow at first, but once I had thousands of believers, my divine power would skyrocket.
Considering that a single follower of mine generated the same amount of Divine Power points as more than 17 follower of other gods, this was my great advantage.
After all, their worshippers praying once a day couldn't compete with my worshippers praying five or more times a day, seven days a week.
While I was analyzing the divine power I was receiving and thinking about what I could do with this divine power to make the Internet more interesting for them, I received a special prayer.
When I paid attention to it, I noticed that it was from Father Robert.
[Oh Great God of the Internet, thank you for all the changes you are making with your people. This old man would like to clear up some doubts that are haunting my old mind, if possible, could you send someone to help this old man?] He asked very sincerely through prayer.
Thinking about it, I decided to go down to the mortal world and see what Father Robert's doubts were.
Of course, I had to maintain my persona as Athenos, the messenger of God.
In front of Robert, the statue that had been standing still for three days finally began to move again, causing him to look at it in amazement and excitement.
"Thank you, Lord Athenos, for coming." Robert bowed respectfully as he thanked me.
I just nodded. "My god told me you needed help on your way..."
"Yes Lord Athenos, I'm sorry to bother you, it's just that in the last few days, with the popularization of the internet, this useless old man has realized even more how useless I was and I couldn't find anything useful I could do for our God..." Father Robert sighed.
When I heard that, I was surprised.
But when I thought about it, it was really true, Robert didn't have much to do.
With the Internet already spreading the prayer of the Internet God, and Robert knowing very little about me, he really didn't have as much use for believers as he used to.
Since I thought that the church was the ideal connection between the God and the believers, I knew that it wouldn't be a good idea to give it up, so I started to think of a solution.
Robert noticed me thinking and politely kept quiet while he waited for me to finish.
"I think I've come up with some ideas on how you can show your usefulness to the Internet God." I said after thinking of something.
There were no public schools in this world, except for magic schools, children learned to read and write at home from their parents, who were fortunate enough to be educated by their own parents.
But even though the percentage of literate people was higher than in other kingdoms, the percentage of illiterate people was still very high.
And to use the Internet, you had to be able to read what was on the Internet.
Since I couldn't teach people to read on my own, Father Robert could be useful!
When he heard that I had an idea, Robert became curious and looked at me excitedly.
"As you may have noticed, in order to use the Internet, a person must at least be able to read in order to understand the knowledge that the God of the Internet makes available to believers. But there are many people who cannot read...how about using the church to teach children and adults who cannot read to read so that they can use the Internet?" I suggested.
Upon hearing this and realizing how useful this would be to the God of the Internet, Robert's eyes lit up in amazement.
"Yes! I can do that!" He replied excitedly.
"Not only can you teach people to read and write, but you can also help people who don't know how to use the Internet to learn how to use it, helping believers to go even deeper in their faith in the God of the Internet." I explained, making Robert's eyes shine even brighter.
"Thank you Lord Athenos, with your enlightenment I already know what I need to do to be useful to the God of the Internet!" He said excitedly as he bowed to me in thanks.
Seeing how happy he was to be useful, I could imagine why they were like that.
After living in the church for so many years, even with difficulty and not knowing which God he was praying to, when the God finally appeared and he could be useful to that God, it was a little disheartening for Robert to find out that he couldn't do anything to help, as if his life's purpose could never be completed.
But with my ideas, Robert realized that he had several other ways to be useful besides just doing masses and trying to convince people to follow a path under his God.
Frankly, I didn't even need people to worship me as long as they used the Internet.
Considering how high the atheist rate was in my previous world, I'm sure people would still use a god's Internet even if they didn't believe in gods.
So for me, as long as the Internet was useful, it was worth it.
But this conversation also made me realize a major flaw in the Internet.
All the entertainment on the Internet today was for educated people, even though the number of illiterate people was very high.
So I had to think of something I could do that illiterate people could also enjoy on the Internet...
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