"Now that you mention it, the Elf Kingdom really is kind of weird." After being reminded, Betty suddenly realized. "There really are elves, and so many elves choosing to abandon their faith in the God of Nature and turn to your embrace instead."
"Haha, you're telling me. Dwarf elves really are an anomaly." Ren smiled. "But this is good too. All the major nations now have my believers internally. Our next plan should be achievable pretty soon."
Betty instantly understood what Ren meant, but after slight hesitation, she still asked, "But before developing features with bigger information capacity, shouldn't we start popularizing the Magic Net that ordinary people can use?"
The second-gen Magic Net Ring—they'd actually finished developing it a few days ago. Compared to the first-gen Magic Net Ring, the biggest difference with the second-gen was a small piece of black stone on the Magic Net Ring. Before using it, you needed to rotate the stone to generate some magic power, activate the Magic Net Ring, then start praying to use it normally.
Added a step of rotating the stone and rubbing to generate magic power, removed the step of extracting magic power from inside the body. Other than that, no difference. Using it, same effect.
"That problem's solved?" Ren's eyebrow raised slightly.
"I think this isn't our problem." Betty shook her head. "Our design is perfect. If there's a mistake, we can only say the operator's operation has issues. Actually it doesn't matter anyway—they just need to reactivate it and pray again. For them, it only wastes a few dozen seconds."
The second-gen Magic Net Ring had one weakness today... Actually you couldn't really call it a weakness. Honestly, you couldn't even say there was a product problem. It was just that Ren was being a bit nitpicky, feeling it could still be optimized.
It was the flint stone installed on the Magic Net to activate it. Sometimes if the friction force wasn't strong enough, it might not activate the Magic Net at all. Then after users prayed, naturally they couldn't activate it.
But if they lowered the trigger difficulty, accidental touches might happen. Even though without prayer the Magic Net couldn't activate, after an accidental touch it would occupy some magic power, take up public "channel" resources, affecting surrounding people's internet speed.
In Betty's view, both situations actually didn't matter. She even felt the first kind was pretty good—occasionally getting double faith power.
Ren was silent for a moment, but finally nodded. "You're right. Nothing can be perfect, right? How about we have that girl Heddy promote it in the Kingdom of Dawn's capital first, see how it goes? If there's no problem, then start large-scale popularization."
In this era, literate people were ultimately the minority.
Even if the second-gen Magic Net could be used by non-magicians, not many people could use it. Those who were literate and could afford to buy it were really only a few times more numerous than magicians. Didn't need to worry about it too much.
Right then, Ren made a decision. "Oh, and have the book get ready to load that feature I had him prepare onto these second-gen Magic Nets."
As soon as he said this, Betty immediately got excited and sprang into action.
Finally, the Magic Net was finally reaching toward the larger ordinary population! Even though this was just taking the first step, once the first step was taken, would the rest be hard?
She seemed to already see endless faith power surging toward them.
Even if ten ordinary people's faith power could barely compare to one magic apprentice, the thing was, out of 10,000 ordinary people, only one magic apprentice would emerge! Wasn't that huge gap obvious?!
The next morning.
In the palace, Hand of the King Berion was processing documents when suddenly a familiar yet strange servant's voice came to his ear. "My lord! Lord Berion, Coffin-Carrying Heddy's Magic Net Business Hall has new stock!"
After a moment of confusion, Berion finally remembered—this was the servant he'd sent to watch the Magic Net Business Hall. Since ray guns became widespread, Heddy's Magic Net Business Hall hadn't had new products. He'd thought that since the God of Technology had such a powerful believer as Viscount Roster, he'd chosen to go solo and wasn't dealing with this Goddess of Magic believer, Miss Coffin-Carrying anymore, so he stopped paying attention.
He'd just forgotten there was still a servant he'd sent out to watch that place.
"You're saying Heddy's Magic Net Business Hall has a new Magic Conductor?" Berion looked at the servant in front of him, surprised. He hadn't heard anything from Roster's side!
The new Magic Conductors popular in the world recently seemed to mostly be ones Viscount Roster and his people created themselves based on divine revelations. Logically, if there was a new god-gifted Magic Conductor, shouldn't Viscount Roster be the first to know?
Just half an hour ago, he'd still been chatting with Viscount Roster, this Finance Minister.
"Yes, yes!" The servant quickly took out a second-gen Magic Net. "This is a second-gen Magic Net that ordinary people can use too. It has a completely different activation process from the first-gen Magic Net..."
Berion didn't even need to hear him finish. The moment he saw this Magic Net, he understood—it was a Magic Net Ring with flint stone installed, similar to the Magic Conductors produced in Roster territory. But it was just a second-gen Magic Net, didn't need to be reported to him...
He was about to say this wouldn't have much impact, words already at his throat, ready to come out, when he suddenly realized things weren't as simple as his first thought!
Not everyone in this world had magical talent. In the Kingdom of Dawn's state machinery, there were also tons of ordinary people. The first-gen Magic Net only needed a trace of magic power to activate—even magic apprentices could do it. That naturally made information transmission much more convenient, but it was still just much more convenient. At some special moments, you still needed several people to spread messages.
But if everyone could use the Magic Net, then the situation would be completely different. Communication, transmitting government orders, would all become super easy. Plus you could chat with specific individuals, avoiding some problems during communication.
"Quick! Quick, send people over to buy all the second-gen Magic Net Rings in Heddy's Magic Net Business Hall. Have someone go find Finance Minister Roster and tell him about this too!" Berion, having reacted, immediately ordered!
But when his people arrived on scene, they discovered Heddy's Magic Net Business Hall already had a line stretched all the way out front, going straight to the end of the street! And those in line were mostly people from various major noble houses...
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