Viscount Roster examined the Magic Net in his hands with great interest. The moment he got word about it, he tracked down Coffin-Carrying Heddy and got himself a second-gen Magic Net.

Unlike everyone else, he was immediately drawn to the second new app.

[Database]: Can be used to better manage your forces.

Honestly, as Roster territory kept expanding, and with him also having to manage the kingdom's finances, he'd been feeling stretched pretty thin lately. The second he saw this feature, his eyes lit up. But when he opened it, all he saw was a bunch of empty fields.

Obviously he wasn't about to question the greatness of the God of Technology, so he immediately pulled up the instructions and started reading through them carefully.

Two hours later, having just arrived back in Roster territory, Viscount Roster immediately found one of his people in charge and tossed them a second-gen Magic Net ring. "Use this feature right now to record information on everyone in our territory—name, gender, age, health status, residence, what they're good at, family members, all of it. Oh, and give each person a number. Way too many commoners have the same names."

Hearing the Viscount's orders, his subordinates all looked totally confused.

This was the first time they'd heard of anything like this. What kind of operation was this? Why do it? What was the point? When you needed someone, couldn't you just ask the knights at the manor? Quick and easy, one question and you'd know. Recording all this would take how much manpower and resources? And in the end, wouldn't the result be the same anyway?

Also, was this a new Magic Net feature? They'd never even heard about it before... Though none of them could use Magic Net rings themselves, there were plenty of rings in the territory, so getting a peek at what was going on wasn't a problem.

But thinking about how they'd all be able to use the Magic Net soon, even though they were confused, their faces broke into big smiles. For a moment, both expressions appeared at once, creating a pretty weird look.

"You've already seen on the Magic Net that the second-gen has some new features, right? This is the method the God of Technology taught us for managing territory. Just do it!" Viscount Roster obviously knew what they were thinking, so he just pushed the God of Technology out front.

In the past, territory management had been, well, pretty bare-bones. Basically, you'd just figure out how many people lived in your territory, have the knights count up the villages below—how many men, women, elderly, children—and that was it.

When you needed craftsmen like blacksmiths or carpenters, you'd just ask around.

The territory had no idea how many craftsmen it even had.

Even now in Roster territory, most of the time they'd just send out a scholar to basically shout about what kind of people they needed, then have folks sign up themselves.

There was no such thing as an efficient population management system like what the god described, so naturally everything was exhausting.

But if you recorded all the population and land information and put it all in these tables where you could see everything at a glance, wouldn't managing things be way simpler?

You could see at a glance what people and land each village had, and figure out the best way to operate based on the current situation... Especially when the factories needed to hire people, you could immediately figure out who was available for recruitment and who was most suitable. Roster was even thinking about adding things like "morality scores," "ability assessment scores," "learning capacity scores," and so on for everyone. That way, screening talent would become even easier.

But his long-winded explanation clearly went over his subordinates' heads. Still, thinking that this actually came from the God of Technology's teachings, they immediately ran off to carry out Viscount Roster's orders.

The massive changes in the territory, the benefits everyone received, the increasingly convenient life—all of this was brought by the God of Technology. Under these circumstances, they couldn't possibly doubt anything. Once they confirmed it was the God of Technology's command—no, once they confirmed this was what the God of Technology said—they'd do it unconditionally. They'd be even more committed than following their own lord's orders.

Meanwhile, another subordinate stared at Viscount Roster expectantly until the Viscount gave him orders to compile statistics on farmland.

"Yes, I'll get right on it!"

"Wait, are you stupid? How are you gonna compile statistics by yourself? By asking people? First go find Horace and have him make you a tool for measuring land, then get a few people to help you. Oh, and call some guards, bring weapons—watch out for attacks."

Viscount Roster remembered that in the God of Technology's examples on this topic, there were clear notes that when compiling farmland statistics, you might run into "hidden fields." These hidden fields didn't require paying any grain or taxes to the lord and were illegal. Their owners really didn't want the lord knowing about them, so they might do something desperate!

Having soldiers along was especially important.

Plus, compiling land statistics was way harder than compiling population statistics. You needed to do measurements and a whole series of other work. This wasn't something that could be done overnight—you'd need some technological help too.

After sending those two off, Viscount Roster found the Wild Mage and told him what just happened and about the [Database] feature in the second-gen Magic Net. "So what do you think? Should we use this method to reorganize how we manage our factories? Including workers, material procurement, product sales, all that information?"

"This database thing—theoretically you can look at it by yourself, or share it with several people, right?" After a long silence, the Wild Mage finally spoke.

"Yeah, you can write one copy yourself, or multiple people can write it together." Viscount Roster nodded slightly, a bit confused. "Plus you can lock it to input-only, no modifications, or other modes. And you can also mark who modified what and what the data looked like before the modification."

"Then let's do it. I feel like using this tool, Roster Factory's efficiency is gonna shoot way up. Plus we won't have to worry about people taking kickbacks during the process. We can even let shareholders see our factory's status in real-time. That way, when we need them to invest more money, it should be easier."

Instantly, tons of stuff popped into the Wild Mage's head—worker management, attendance tracking, warehouse management, financial management... There was just so much. He couldn't even imagine how orderly the factory would be after managing it this way.

"That's insane. He instantly thought of so many ways to optimize production." In the divine realm, Ren didn't know if he had some kind of premonition, but he just felt like something big involving him was happening. So he turned on the TV, took a look, and nearly had his jaw drop off.

His guide just used some examples to illustrate the concept—the specifics still needed them to explore on their own. That's what he wanted to see anyway. If they explored it themselves, things would become more and more comprehensive in the future. If he had to spoon-feed them everything, before long they'd lose their ability to explore, and then they'd just decline... No one person could be thorough about everything, not even him as the God of Technology.

But he really didn't expect Roster and the Wild Mage to understand it so quickly. It was almost like... like the Wild Mage was also a transmigrator.

Sure enough, the world as seen by smart people versus everyone else was pretty different.

"Once they compile all that farmland, population, and factory information and upload it to the Magic Net, won't that make your data authority more complete?"

Betty couldn't help but ask.

In the magic tower, the Goddess of Magic also immediately focused her attention.

"Nah, it's my own turf after all." Ren shook his head slightly. "But I think this is gonna relate to unlocking other authorities in the future. With enough data, I even think I might be able to predict the future."

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