God of Internet

Chapter 101: Progress

Just as I'd imagined, the skin I used on the Internet became a trend among the vast majority of Internet users after they saw me wear it so elegantly, and especially after they saw the blue holographic screen turn into a weapon that killed such a powerful demon.

Instead of seeing people reading books everywhere, it was now common to see people with floating blue screens in front of them.

Since people still liked to show off their status to others, unlike the books that had different covers depending on the level of mage, warrior, or rank in [Fear Trial] that person had, I had to use decorated borders for the holographic screen.

The centre of the screen was the transparent blue I normally use, but the user could choose the colour of the border based on their level as a mage or warrior, as well as stylised details based on their rank in [Fear Trial].

The only problem that left me wondering how to deal with it was that while the books could be tied around the waist to show status while walking, something people loved to do, the holographic screen that appeared and disappeared was something that wasn't as eye-catching when not in use.

I knew how vain people were, letting them show off their vanity to others earned me a lot of divine power, so I had to think of a way to deal with it.

The solution I came up with was that when the Internet wasn't being used, the holographic screen would shrink down to the size of a brooch that could be pinned on the person's clothes!

This brooch would have the colour of the Mage or Warrior level that the person had chosen, with small details of their rank.

In this way, the accessory would be even more eye-catching than the book on the Internet, because unlike the book, which didn't emit any light, the brooch was slightly holographic, glowing a little in the dark, making it stand out to anyone looking at it.

As soon as the wizards found out about it, Arcantor Magic School went into a frenzy, and the corridors were full of glowing dots.

This was even better for me, because the cost in Divine Power to maintain something like this glowing brooch, or even the floating holographic screen, was much less than the cost of maintaining a physical book, which increased the profit I received for each prayer!

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When the war was over and I saw how many kingdoms I had at my disposal to spread the Internet, I began to feel a little greedy, but when I saw how relieved the people of my 5, or rather 7, kingdoms were at the end of the war, my greed quickly disappeared and I declared peace for the people.

Of course, the merchants still had the task of spreading the Internet to the towns they passed through in other kingdoms, which made it even easier to convince the townspeople in other kingdoms to become my followers, with a full trailer showing the functions of the Internet and the war we were fighting against the demons.

Internet Coins were a great motivator for people to join the Internet, but an even better motivator for those who invited them to join the Internet.

With the steady accumulation of Internet Coins that these merchants had on their travels, some of them had already bought such powerful blessings that they had even taken some of them from apprentice mages to arcane mages, further increasing their enthusiasm for spreading the Internet to other realms.

When I looked at the map I had made showing my believers, I could see large concentrations of believers in my 5 kingdoms, medium concentrations of believers in the last 2 kingdoms I ruled as those kingdoms had little population left, but several small concentrations of believers in the various kingdoms neighbouring my 7 kingdoms.

As a result, the number of new believers I've received in the last few days has skyrocketed.

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| Character Status

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| Name: Adrian Innovashine

| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet

| Level: Elemental God rank 1

| Number of worshippers: 2,230,000 -> 2,690,000

| Average usage per user: 5 hours

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| Available deities: Creativity, Waves, Fear.

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| Divine Skills: Blessed Prayer.

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| Divine Power: 200,000 / 25,600,000 -> 42,064,000 / 25,600,000 (+52,445,000 [Prayers in the last 6 days] -10,491,000 [20% of the Pantheon] -100,000 [Updates and development of new features])

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A total gain of nearly 42 million Divine Power points in just 6 days...

With such a large amount of Divine Power at my disposal, it was inevitable that I would become a rank 2 elemental deity.

Another very important use for my Divine Power was my AI.

Because of the war that had broken out with the demons, I had to keep my AI exclusively for the [Library] application, something that consumed little Divine Power and gave me very useful results.

The information on any kind of book they needed would reach me on the same day, which I was able to process in a very short time, so the use of the [Library] application has increased significantly since I created this AI.

The problem was that restricting the use of the AI to the [Library] application really limited my ability to gather information from my followers.

They may have problems that could be easily solved with the internet, and I don't even know about it.

Of course, it's not that I didn't want the AI to get that information for me, but because I was at war and had to act at any moment, any Divine Power I spent on that problem was less Divine Power than I had available for combat.

So it had to be postponed until now, when I finally had more Divine Power than before the war.

At this point, I had enough Divine Power to upgrade the AI, increase my rank, and even save a few million Divine Power points for any emergencies that might arise.

There were still 10 days until the end of the test and I couldn't afford to falter and get eliminated in those 10 days.

Even if I doubted that there were any other gods capable of taking me on, if several gods allied against me, I would have to spend a few million Divine Power Points to deal with them.

So, knowing that I was now safe, I turned my attention to the divine world and began upgrading my AI.

The cost of this was just over 1 million Divine Power Points, which was a very high figure for me at the time, but was now only a small part of what I was earning each day.

Things that I wanted to add to the AI when I was developing it, but couldn't because the cost of those features was too high, were now available to me.

The first thing I did was to improve the AI's big data analysis, so that it could analyse the full profile of the user it was analysing before defining the importance of that information.

For example, when I first used the AI, it determined that political books were not widely used on the internet. This completely ignored the fact that among the niche of nobles and scholars, this book was one of the most read, simply because this niche was so small compared to the millions of commoners who used the internet.

In addition to this update, another important focus was that by allowing the AI to access [Carrier Pigeon], the main focus it should have, even before user retention, was to pay attention to information that could pose a threat to the governments under my command, or any useful information in a possible war.

This kind of information was invaluable.

Even though user retention was very important, it would be worthless if a war happened and those users died.

So security was defined as the top priority among the data analysed.

As for improving the user experience, I decided to optimise the use of [Carrier Pigeon] using AI.

After the successful test in which the AI recommended books to warriors and got a very good response from that audience, I decided to let the AI take care of recommending content to users that they would consume.

Just like the social networks in my previous world, this AI would work as an algorithm that identifies the user's interests and recommends publications, books, music that it identifies as being of interest to the user, or even things that the user hates, in order to create feelings that make the user want to continue using the internet.

Of course, I don't want to create hate groups among users, so I've limited the recommendation of content that the user hates, as well as limiting the content that they approve of, so as not to trap users in bubbles where they think everyone else thinks the same thing as them.

Just to develop these features and make them work with the precision that I thought was passable, I had already spent 5 million Divine Power Points.

So, in order not to spend more than I had to, even though I had several other ideas for features that this AI could have, such as even being able to talk to the user, I decided to leave those features for later, when I had even more Divine Power.

For now, I'd just let the AI analyse the users and put the new features I'd created into practice, making me anxious about the outcome.

When I returned to the mortal world, I was surprised by the sound of my Internet beeping to let me know that someone was calling me.

For the time being, only Lucy and Zane were able to call me, so I was curious as to what this call could be about.