04 – Development of the Internet

Since the Internet didn't exist, the gods didn't understand many of the 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 U$1 to use the Internet for an hour in cyber cafes, couldn't I do the same for my deity?

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 for my Divine Power 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, or expect to need this God's Divinity to pray to Him, 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 the 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 their 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 the 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 had 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 very easily.

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 their 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.