The divine realm opened its gates, and a figure, guided by the Goddess of Magic, arrived before the magic tower.
As they exchanged greetings, the Goddess of Writing looked at Ren with open curiosity, and Ren was sizing up this Goddess of Writing right back!
The Goddess of Writing was also a female deity, humanoid in form, with long hair as deep as the night sky. Starlight glimmered through her hair strands, as if the Milky Way itself was cascading down. Her eyes were similar—like endless starry skies reflected in them.
As the two conversed, Ren could clearly feel a sudden urge rising within him—a desire to use his pen as a sword, dreams as a steed, to write his own chapter... He knew this was a bit of corruption leaking from the Goddess of Writing. He also knew that the Goddess of Writing was resisting the corruption leaking from him as well.
In the divine realm, with faith power so concentrated, any deity besides the Goddess of Magic who was the host would have some corruption leak out.
"I wonder what brings the Scribe to my divine realm?" The Goddess of Magic quickly cut to the chase and asked directly.
"I noticed the Magic Net's existence on the day Technology ascended to godhood. Recently, I've been writing some stories in the Magic Space, and they've been quite popular..." But the Goddess of Writing didn't answer directly, instead starting to talk about recent events.
Obviously, this narrative approach and entry point exceeded what the couple had anticipated. Both of them were momentarily stunned.
The Goddess of Writing directly admitted that she'd had a holy spirit activate a Magic Net Ring and written a long story on a forum, which over 80,000 people were following... They knew their own situation—while the Magic Net was developing rapidly, the current user count had only just reached around 450,000. Nearly one-fifth of users were reading the Goddess of Writing's work. That was pretty interesting.
Plus, Ren couldn't help but think of his previous life, when many people had serialized novels on forums. It was quite similar.
"If you just wanted to serialize stories on the forum, you probably wouldn't need to go through all this trouble to come here in person, right?" After she finished speaking, Ren asked: "Whether it's you, or holy spirits, or even believers in the mortal realm—they can all freely use the Magic Net. I haven't restricted believers of other gods. Even if you preach in the Magic Space, I won't interfere. Even people from the Church of the God of War—I've never interfered with them. I don't think you came here just because of prayers to activate the Magic Net, did you?"
The Goddess of Writing was really obscure in the mortal realm, almost unknown, since most groups had extremely low literacy rates. If it weren't for this visit, Ren wouldn't even have remembered there was such a deity!
But precisely because of that, he had to be more cautious. If he'd never heard of them, how could he know their authority? The unknown always corresponded with higher risk.
"No, no, no—using the Magic Net should rightfully involve dedicating a portion of faith to the provider." The Goddess of Writing quickly waved her hands, then smiled slightly. "The reason I came is to ask you both whether we could specifically establish a new feature in the Magic Net Space focused on writing and reading? Don't rush to refuse—I believe this project has great potential. I think I've already developed a certain understanding of these Magic Net users!"
"Oh? Let's hear it?" Ren immediately became interested.
"This feature exclusively for writing and reading books wouldn't restrict the writing at all. Anyone could write books—knowledge, history, stories, anything. But if readers want to read, they'd need to pray. We could let them read the first few chapters for free, then have them pray once for each subsequent chapter... Your Magic Net already has a points system, so we could also let them use points to skip the prayer—that's no problem."
The Goddess of Writing quickly explained her idea: "For example, I once wrote an elven epic—200 million words total, over seventy major chapters. Even by major chapters, we could get over seventy prayers. And we could break it down into smaller chapters... Of course, we could also do it by time—like they'd need to pray once for every hour they read..."
Even without the Goddess of Writing continuing, Ren's eyes widened. Wasn't this just the web novel and e-book model from his previous life?!
Was the Goddess of Writing really this forward-thinking?
He was increasingly suspicious that he wasn't the only person from another world here. Roster had advanced thinking, the Wandering Wild Mage had advanced ideas, and now a Goddess of Writing with an advanced business plan had popped up!
Prayer by chapter, prayer by duration—to think of all this, this was a real talent!
Compared to the various ideas constantly bursting forth in Ren's mind, the Goddess of Magic was in a similar state. Though she appeared calm, internally she was experiencing huge waves. It seemed like this could really work!
For a deity like her who had no clue how to collect faith, hearing this plan wasn't just eye-opening—it was like the heavens splitting open!
She instinctively wanted to agree, but seemed to remember something and turned her gaze to Ren. She wasn't professional at this sort of thing—she still needed to see what Ren thought.
But in the Goddess of Writing's eyes, this performance meant something else. After a slight pause, she quickly added: "You two provide the Magic Net and offer convenience and channels for this venture. I believe 50% of the faith should go to you both."
If she only told them that this application could make more people activate the Magic Net more times, that probably wouldn't work. They were all gods—none of them were idiots!
Without her writing, would people not use the Magic Net?
Opening with an offer to give 50% of the faith to the couple showed some sincerity and might make it easier to reach an agreement.
Now Ren was even more surprised—she even knew to give a channel fee!
"How many people would create content on this?" After thinking briefly, Ren asked.
"Conservative estimate, around 800 people." The Goddess of Writing thought for a moment. "I have many believers in the City-State Alliance, where Magic Net Rings haven't spread yet..."
"Magic Net Rings in the City-State Alliance have already started spreading outward from the City of Gold."
"Then 2,000 people should be no problem." The Goddess of Writing was straightforward, without any hesitation. "The numbers will definitely keep rising. My believers—none of them can refuse writing books on it, and they won't even need any incentive."
"Oh? Why's that?" Ren was about to say that he could use his authority to provide material rewards as incentives, and ask how much the numbers would increase in that case and who would provide the rewards. But then he heard this statement and couldn't help but pause.
Even if they believed in the Goddess of Writing, they shouldn't be that enthusiastic, right? No incentive needed at all, and they'd all jump on and keep producing content...
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