Chapter 20: Double Evolution!

Just as gods could use divine power to create attacks and powers based on what their divinity was based on, blessings had the same functionality.A fire god could bless soldiers to use fire in their attacks, give them flame resistance, or anything related to the divinity of that fire god's believing soldier.

As the god of creativity, I had the freedom to do whatever I wanted, but in return, just as my attacks had a much higher cost than the attacks of other gods, my blessings also had a much higher cost.

From what I learned in the book, a normal god would need at least 1,000 Divine Power points to cast a blessing at the level I wanted to cast it for a single believer.

And here was the problem for a deity with as much freedom as mine.

To perform the same blessing, the cost for me was ten times higher, or 10,000 Divine Power Points...

The same cost it would have taken me to rise from a rank 1 elemental deity to rank 2...

Of course, I wasn't spending my Divine Power on something useless, but on an investment that would make the Internet users spend even more time on the Internet and give me even more Divine Power in the long run.

And unfortunately, this problem of the cost of Divine Power for the blessing was the same as the attacks...

Since the Divinity of Creativity didn't have any exclusive high-affinity attack concepts, even though it had a lot of freedom to make attacks in extremely creative ways, the cost of making attacks was just as expensive as making blessings...

So even if I received a huge amount of Divine Power every day, I would have to be very careful with my Divine Power reserve so that I would always have enough Divine Power for a possible confrontation in the future.

But that wasn't something I needed to worry about right now.

Especially with the amount of Divine Power I had at the moment.

In the late afternoon, after the Arcantor Magic School's classes ended, the students who had spent hours using the Internet in class also used the Internet for a few hours for entertainment and to tell their friends and family who weren't studying at the Arcantor Magic School about the Internet, causing both my Divine Power to explode and the number of users to grow very rapidly.

Since most of the current users were now wizards, with much greater mental power than ordinary people, they were able to use the Internet for much longer than other people!

And since they were all literate, they were able to use all the features of the Internet as it was meant to be used, not to mention the new applications I had developed specifically for the students of Arcantor Magic School.

So the amount of Divine Power I received today was explosive!

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| Character Status

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| Name: Adrian Innovashine

| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet

| Level: Embryonic Deity Rank 1

| Number of believers: 5,244

| Average usage per user: 12 hours

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| Divine Power: 5,550 / 10,000 -> 35,214 / 10,000 (-1,800 +31,464)

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I had an incredible 35,000 Divine Power points!

A number that would take an ordinary god months to accumulate, but I managed it in just a few days...

Even though I had used 1,800 Divine Power Points to develop the two applications, that was a negligible consumption compared to the amount I was now getting.

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Of course, looking at today's average Internet usage time, I knew it wouldn't stay that way, since today was their first day of contact and everything was new, maybe in the next few days that number would drop by half, but I was already happy about it.

To the point where I could spend a lot more time developing even better apps, or improving current apps to a much higher level, without worrying about running out of Divine Power!

But Adrian... focus... you need focus Adrian!

I currently needed to invest 10,000 Divine Power points in Robert to give him a blessing so that he could teach the commoners to read and write as quickly as possible.

Of course, the more Divine Power I used for the blessing, the more powerful it would be, but for now, 10,000 Divine Power points was enough.

That left me with 25k Divine Power points to use as I pleased, and since there was no possible battle I would have to deal with now, it was good to use it to increase my rank.

And that's exactly what I did.

When I returned my consciousness from the mortal world to the divine world, I sat down in the most comfortable position I could manage and closed my eyes as I felt the divine power in my body.

Before, the Divine Power seemed to be in a container, like a tank of water that could be easily drawn from a tap.

But what I would do now would be to use the water in that tank internally...

I would leave my tank, or as the teachers call it, my Divine Core, to absorb the Divine Power to the point of saturation.

If I had my system screen that I had projected in front of me, I would have seen the numbers go down quickly.

Divine Power: 35,214/10,000 -> 32,513/10,000 -> ...

With each point of Divine Power that my Divine Core absorbed, I felt that it was becoming more and more resilient, and my affinity with Divine Power was improving.

Even though I couldn't feel how deep this affinity was or if it would really give me a tangible advantage, I continued to absorb this Divine Power.

Divine Power: 29,971/10,000 -> 27,777/10,000 -> 25,214/20,000.

When I absorbed exactly 10,000 points of Divine Power in just 20 minutes, I felt that my Divine Core had evolved!

My affinity with Divine Power had also risen to a new level, and I felt that I could control my Divine Power much more easily now!

With the amount of Divine Power I now had, I decided to do a test run to develop the exact same application I had made for the Arcantor Kingdom, the [Arcantor National], which had originally cost me 400 points of Divine Power, now I was able to develop it for only 380 points of Divine Power!

That's a 5% reduction in the development cost of the application!

Considering that the maintenance cost of the Internet was 0.5 Divine Power points per hour of mortal use, now that I had increased my rank, it would probably drop to 0.475 Divine Power points per hour!

Curious, I looked at my dashboard again.

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| Character Status

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| Name: Adrian Innovashine

| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet

| Level: Embryonic Deity Rank 2

| Number of believers: 5,246

| Average usage per user: 6 hours

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| Divine power: 25,214 / 20,000

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I had risen from a Rank 1 Embryonic Deity to Rank 2, and the amount of Divine Power I needed to increase my rank had doubled.

From what I remembered from the teacher's explanation, the amount of Divine Power needed to increase in rank doubled with each level of Embryonic Divinity, so while it only increased by 10,000 Divine Power points from Rank 1 to Rank 2, it would increase by 20,000 from Rank 2 to Rank 3.

But looking at how much Divine Power I had left, I saw an opportunity.

Instead of using this Divine Power to bless Robert right now and give him a blessing of 10,000 Divine Power points, or 9. 500 with the affinity I now had with my deity, I could now use 20,000 Divine Power points to further improve my rank and gain another 5% affinity with my deity, reducing the cost of the blessing by a total of 10%, or perhaps even increasing the effect of the blessing on Robert by 10%, giving him an effect of 11,000 Divine Power in a rank 1 blessing, but spending only 10,000 on rank 3.

When I calculated how much I would save per day, or have a 10% more efficient blessing for the same amount every day, I realized that moving up a rank was really the best choice now.

And that's exactly what I did.

Taking advantage of the pleasant feeling I had just gotten from moving up a rank, I let it come back to me as I began to spend even more Divine Power to move up another rank.

Feeling the divine power being drained from my reserves was a little painful, but feeling it being absorbed into me was very satisfying.

Now that I knew how to do it more easily, it only took me 10 minutes to absorb the 20,000 points of Divine Power I needed.

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| Character Status

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| Name: Adrian Innovashine

| Titles: God of Creativity, God of the Internet

| Level: Rank 3 Embryonic Deity

| Number of believers: 5,249

| Average usage per user: 6 hours

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| Divine power: 5,215 / 40,000

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Looking at the current measly 5,214 Divine Power points available, I was a little despondent, especially compared to the merciless 40,000 Divine Power points needed to advance one rank.

But I didn't let that deter me.

I truly felt a 10% greater affinity for Divine Power compared to when I was just a Rank 1 Embryonic Divinity!

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But unbeknownst to me, my evolution from two small realms in less than 40 minutes had not gone unnoticed.

Neither the mortals nor the other students noticed that someone had gone from a Level 1 Embryonic Divinity to Level 3 in such a short time, but for the teachers and principals of the school, it was extremely easy to notice such a thing.

And it was extremely surprising to them who were gathered in the teachers' room watching our test.