Strife: "@Technology I can already feel it. Since you updated, I've noticed disputes have clearly increased."

Hearth: "@Strife We're not the same. @Technology You sure that through your new feature, we'll collect faith more easily? How does it work?"

"My Magic Net now has over a million users, most of them supernatural beings. As time goes on, the user count will keep exploding—you should all know that, right? In the past, everything on the Magic Net was text. But how many people on the continent can read? As magic-tech industrialization progresses, more and more people who only learned a tiny bit of reading in factory schools will start using the Magic Net. For them, using other features might be difficult, but watching videos? They can do that..."

Ren quickly typed out line after line of text. After briefly emphasizing the scale of the video feature, he changed direction: "With such massive scale, you just need you or your believers to showcase the excellent aspects of your sects and faiths, and naturally more people will want to join. That means more believers and fanatics."

"Even if they don't want to join your churches, after seeing the knowledge you share, they might still feel grateful. That gratitude will naturally provide casual believer faith."

Faith, at its core, is about how many people believe in you as a god. Ren had long understood the essence of how this world worked. It didn't necessarily require prayer—though of course, prayer was the fastest collection method, because during prayer there would be a few minutes of complete focus.

If whatever you say, they believe, if you've formed supreme authority in their hearts and they wouldn't mind even going against other gods, then they're your fanatic. If they're willing to become your 'fan,' if they believe most of what you say as long as it's not too ridiculous, and they're willing to spend tons of time promoting you, then they're a believer. If they're willing to believe you for just a moment, then in that moment, the faith power they emit belongs to you—that's a casual believer.

In other words, competing for faith at its core is competing for mortals' time!

It was precisely based on this theory that Ren valued the video feature so much.

Every god could use this feature to release a series of videos beneficial to themselves, competing for more casual believer faith time. In this state, one casual believer's faith naturally didn't amount to much—no prayer, just a little that leaked out, and a large portion still needed to be split with Ren and the Goddess of Magic before the rest was theirs.

But this was wealth gained out of nowhere! As the Magic Net's scale and reach grew larger, those small amounts would compound into significant faith power.

Moreover, for each god, this was a perfect place for promotion and screening. They could transmit their sect's core concepts to attract fans and absorb believers and fanatics. If they really could convert more users through quality content, then Ren as the middleman naturally wouldn't make anything or would make very little—they could totally do off-platform deals.

Similar to investment attraction in the previous life, and creators taking their own sponsorships and posting ads.

Ren quickly transmitted his concept, then changed direction: "@Hearth You actually have certain advantages with this new feature. All delicious food in the world requires the blessing of hearth fire. Everyone knows that in your Church of the Hearth, people skilled at cooking are countless. And eating is basically instinct for all mortals. You can have your believers release more food videos to attract people to watch."

After finishing this explanation, Ren directly closed the Magic Net, as if he didn't even want to look. He also completely ignored the other gods @ing him.

"Why aren't you replying to them?" The Goddess of Magic was a bit curious. "If you designed paths for each of them, the development of this new feature should go more smoothly, right?"

"Even without me, they can figure it out. If they really can't figure it out, naturally they'll come ask us." Ren said with a smile. "Besides, if they can't figure it out, maybe their believers can figure it out. Maybe there'll even be better paths. My interference might actually cause bad effects instead."

"Alright." The Goddess of Magic didn't quite seem to understand Ren's logic, but in this area, what Ren showed was often most correct. She didn't dwell on it anymore. After nodding slightly, she changed direction: "What do you think about me filming videos directly?"

"You filming directly?" Ren was slightly stunned.

"Teaching magic—there's no being in this world more proficient at it than me." The Goddess of Magic smiled adorably. "I'm the origin of magic in this world. Right now, our Magic Net is mainly magicians. Of course I should take this chance to strengthen my faith."

"Of course you can." Ren said with a smile. "Actually, I was just thinking about how to get these gods to participate directly. They'll most likely just position themselves as MCN companies in the early stages..."

"MCN company?" The Goddess of Magic was clearly hearing this term for the first time and was quite puzzled by this strange term.

"It means cultivating a whole bunch of people to post videos, then having these people work for them. Still using Hearth as an example, His believers are good at food, so He organizes 10,000 believers to post food videos. He's the head and biggest beneficiary of a food category MCN company."

Ren quickly introduced it in a way the Goddess of Magic should understand: "My biggest expectation for the Magic Net is for every god to participate directly, but that ultimately requires a process."

"As the main force in the previous fight against the God of War, I'm clearly the most suitable chosen one right now." The Goddess of Magic's smile didn't change, but her determination to film magic teaching videos grew even stronger in her heart.

Gray Fort Empire.

At the residence of legendary magician Master Andrew, just as he was about to go out to prepare for the next sacrifice targeting the Goddess of Magic, the door to his room was suddenly pushed open by a kid who looked about twelve or thirteen: "Teacher, there seems to be a problem with the magic you taught me."

"Oh? What's the problem?" Master Andrew was gentle and friendly. He was quite satisfied with this young apprentice of his. Only 12 years old and already at the level of a low-tier magician. You have to know, most people at this age would already be doing pretty well if they could become a mage apprentice.

"It's just... you should see for yourself!" The young apprentice wanted to say something but didn't know how to explain it for a moment. After a brief pause and failing to organize his words, he directly held up his Magic Net. Master Andrew, who'd been nonchalant just a second ago, had his expression change drastically the next moment!

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