LIGHTNOVELONLINE 66 – Development
"You've finally become an Elemental God!" Lucy said excitedly as she looked at me with her eyes shining through our video flame using my divinity.
"Yes, could you feel any difference from your side?" I asked curiously.
Since my divinity in her possession was limited by her rank, since she had the lowest rank in our relationship, I was unsure if raising my rank had changed anything.
Thinking for a moment, Lucy put her hand to her chin as she looked up, apparently trying to concentrate on the feeling.
"Yes... I can feel the change, when I concentrate well I can feel as if the divine power passing through your divinity is purer, as if slightly dirty water has been filtered until it is transparent. It's still water to me, I can't use it any differently than before, but I feel like it's better," she said. She said after some thought.
Thinking about this explanation, it makes sense.
"And how's your Divine Power Reserve?" I asked after sensing that she had become a rank 9 Embryonic Divinity.
Considering that it costs 1.28 million Divine Power points to level up, and she only gained about 500 to 600 thousand Divine Power points in the past few days, I was worried.
Hearing this question, Lucy smiled embarrassedly. "I only have about 140,000 Divine Power points because I spent them to level up..."
Considering that I was going to use her to invade Zack's realm, it would be safer to leave her with enough Divine Power to protect herself, even if I wanted to do it myself.
So I nodded and sent her another 860k Divine Power.
When Lucy felt the Divine Power entering her body, she was shocked.
"Why are you sending me so much Divine Power, Adrian?" she asked.
"It's better to be safe than sorry in case something bad happens, keep this 860k Divine Power as an advance on how much you'll get from the Internet in the next few days, after that quota is reached, I'll transfer you the Divine Power you deserve. Now that you're at rank 9, with 1 million Divine Power, it's practically impossible for any other god to threaten you in this test. I said, surprising her.
But Lucy was still worried, staring at me doubtfully as she spoke. "Are you all right? You just spent 12 million to rank up... if you lose, we're both screwed, take some of the divine power you sent me back..."
"Don't worry, I still have enough saved up, not to mention that our profit will increase tomorrow as the cost of the internet will go down a lot now that I've optimized the use of it when I rank up." I smiled. I smiled. "Sure, your cost is still a bit high since the session using your deity hasn't been optimized because of your rank, but it was still possible to lower the cost of your session to 40% from the original 50%."
Upon hearing this, Lucy's eyes lit up.
Considering that we only received 0.5 Divine Power Points per use, increasing it to 0.6 was a 20% increase in that amount, which would also increase the amount she would receive in the future by 20%.
"Are you going to raid Zack tomorrow?" she asked worriedly.
"Yes..." I replied in a serious voice. "Zack has already caused me a lot of trouble in both the mortal and divine worlds during our years of study, so now I'm going to take my revenge."
Lucy still had a slightly hesitant expression on her face when she heard this, but after a few seconds, it changed to acceptance.
From memories of the old Adrian, I knew she was a nice girl, but even she knew what Zack had done to the old Adrian, so she didn't even mind if I saw this as a form of revenge.
"Okay, then tomorrow morning I'll meet you at our border, where we first met." She said, making me nod.
"Okay, tomorrow I'll go there too and we'll go to Aetheris to deal with Zack."
With that decided, we chatted about mundane things from our kingdoms before hanging up the phone.
The development of Arcantor and the other kingdoms I controlled was very stable.
The other neighboring kingdoms moved from battle to battle without directly affecting any of the kingdoms I controlled.
Initially, some scouts were sent to my kingdoms, but after learning that a single god directly controlled three kingdoms, and in partnership with another kingdom, the gods who controlled those scouts' kingdoms quickly realized that it wouldn't be a good idea to try to attack me, and went back to focusing on attacking other kingdoms.
In their minds, even though I had used a lot of Divine Power to fight the gods of those realms, now that I had won, I was getting 3-4 times more Divine Power than them every week, which was an absurd amount.
Looking at Arcantor, which was my headquarters, I noticed some changes in the capital.
The main change was in the church, which had undergone a major renovation with the money that Robert received for teaching.
People paid 1 copper coin a week to study with him for one hour a day.
The class, which previously had only 100 to 200 students, had now grown to more than 1,000 students, which meant more than 10 silver coins a week for Robert!
These silver coins weren't used for luxuries he could afford, but he used this money to buy building materials and pay masons to renovate the church, increasing its size and improving the quality of the seating and decoration.
In this way, he was able to accommodate even more students in his classes, further increasing his weekly income.
At Arcantor Magic School, the number of iMonsters among the students was very high.
Both the students and the teachers loved the little creatures and began to feed them in order to have partners for battles.
Speaking of battles, some students at Arcantor Magic School even began to use their iMonsters in battles, causing an iMonster battle fever to break out in the school.
As the battles became more popular, the students began to feel even more of a need to feed their iMonsters, as this would increase their strength and help them win even more battles.
The problem was that the excitement of feeding the iMonsters meant that the students did not have as much mana during the day to train their magic, causing their grades to drop and the teachers to become unhappy and complain to the school board.
When the school board heard about this, they laughed it off, but took a very unpopular action and banned the use of iMonsters in the school.
This caused many students to become outraged and even think about filing a lawsuit, but when they remembered that the school principals were literally the three most powerful people in the kingdom, the idea disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.
But it made me realize that there was also a market for online iMonster battles, which could save the students from having to use my Divine Power to summon iMonsters to battle so often, and encourage them to feed their iMonsters even more often!
This was a good idea for me, but the problem was that from the kingdom's point of view, this decision could directly affect Arcantor's military power in the future, since I would be hindering the development of their mages.
So I'd have to consider some restrictions very carefully to prevent that from happening.
Another thing that caught my attention was Luna's development.
With my blessing of creativity, she was totally on fire developing new songs.
I could see her using the internet every day to make more and more songs.
The first songs she made were rather boring, but as time went by, the quality of the songs increased rapidly.
Not only did the songs become more interesting, but she also made them simpler so that even the most isolated commoners could understand and enjoy them.
Another good thing she did was to use my blessing of creativity on her to create new spells.
She didn't know about the blessing I had given her, only that she had been in a state of enlightenment for days, but she used that time very well.
In addition to Luna, I found another mortal to bless with creativity.
Henfrey, a simple apprentice mage from the Arcantor Magic School, who started writing a book out of curiosity shortly after I developed the writing option on the Internet.
Surprisingly, the book he wrote did very well among Internet users.
Having a book written by an Internet user was a great way to inspire other people to write and generate more Internet content for me, so I helped Henfrey with a Creativity Blessing of 5k Divine Power Points.
This made him much more creative in his writing and attracted an even larger audience to his book, which was great for me and produced exactly the result I wanted.
Having made sure that the realms were in order and that nothing needed my direct intervention, I was able to return to the divine world in the evening and rest for 5 hours before returning to the mortal world and meeting Lucy so that we could go to Zack.
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