"This feeling is just like being a god."
This was Harry's first sentence after experiencing Creation Mode.
With a single thought, mountains rose, rivers were carved, volcanoes erupted, and if he wished, he could even turn the sun in the sky into two.
It wasn't just the natural environment.
Humans and animals were the same. Riding a dragon, Harry crossed his arms and looked down at the people farming in the villages and towns below.
The sunlight was warm, the wind was gentle, and the dragon beneath him felt incredibly real. Harry could even feel the tremors in his body from the dragon's breathing. He pinched his arm, and a red welt appeared with a sharp sting.
Roger's virtual reality simulation was too realistic, almost indistinguishable from reality.
If it weren't for the vacant eyes of the NPCs and their mechanical movements, he would have almost believed this was reality and that he was truly a god.
But as he continued to experiment, Harry discovered a problem.
"Why is this mountain exactly the same as the last one?" Harry turned to Roger beside him.
"Uh, the models are limited. There are only a few mountain peak models. Carving the forest vegetation, soil, and other details for each mountain peak requires effort. The most important use of my Creation Mode is to hire people to optimize these fine details and make the world before us more realistic," Roger said.
Roger had already decided that for the general public mode for ordinary people, there was no need to pursue realism in every aspect.
On the contrary, to prevent people from becoming disillusioned with the real world and becoming obsessed with the beauty of the virtual, he would deliberately leave some "flaws" so that people would realize it was fake.
However, when Roger's technology is further perfected in the future, those who are close to death and have signed the ultimate mind acceleration agreement with Roger, the second type of players who will live hundreds of years in a few months.
The worlds Roger prepared for them would meticulously replicate reality, making it a world completely like "The Matrix."
For Creation Mode, creating ordinary macroscopic scenery is not a skill; it's merely copying and pasting from existing models.
The truly difficult part is fine-tuning a tree, a flower, creating new usable models, and then merging these models into new macroscopic scenes.
"I think you'd better find someone who has actually worked as a programmer for this," Harry, like Hermione, grew up in Muggle society and naturally understood some things about Muggles.
Harry had never noticed before how complex the structure of a seemingly simple flower was.
Petals, receptacle, calyx, corolla, stigma, style, ovary, sap, root system, leaves, cellular structure, photosynthesis, material transport, energy cycle... and this was just for an unremarkable little flower.
Looking at the lush mountains with different vegetation around him, and the NPCs whose every pore was clearly visible, he now deeply understood how vast the gap was between Roger and himself.
Roger said that all these things, as well as the many games his classmates were playing, were created by him in less than 10 days.
...What terrifying level of information storage and processing power did this guy's brain possess?!
"Wizards who have been programmers?" Where would he find such people? Instead of looking for such a rare thing, it would be better for Roger to continue optimizing the Creation Mode plugin so that even ordinary Muggles could use it... This was a direction, but the International Statute of Secrecy was an insurmountable obstacle.
Alas, the International Statute of Secrecy.
While it protected wizards, it also implicitly limited much of the development in wizarding society.
Although there had always been contact between the higher echelons of wizarding society and Muggle society, and it wasn't impossible to borrow some people from the British Royal Family through legal channels.
But this was no small matter. Fudge, because of Dumbledore, would recognize the terrifying potential of virtual reality and pretend not to see it.
He would turn a blind eye to the affairs of the powerful.
But if Muggles knew about this, they would definitely report it to the national authorities.
Having Fudge pretend not to see it and having Fudge actively help cover up the facts by acting against Muggles were two different levels of things. That hesitant, self-preserving fellow wouldn't be willing.
All countries have think tank teams, and there are certainly insightful individuals who can see that wizards are quietly brewing a huge change. Would they stand idly by?
"The problem has circled back again," Roger recalled a sentence he had once said to Dumbledore.
"All disadvantages and failures stem from the inadequacy of the person concerned." It was precisely Roger's lack of power to completely overturn the table that prevented him from acting recklessly in many of his actions.
Without the ability to back himself up, Roger had to proceed cautiously, ensuring that events did not spiral out of his control and avoiding disasters.
After receiving Harry's feedback, Roger, with his thoughts, approached Dumbledore again.
Pushing open the door to the headmaster's office, Roger noticed that Dumbledore's expression was unusually grim, even worse than during the Grindelwald incident last time.
"Headmaster Dumbledore, has something happened?" Roger suppressed the question he was about to ask and looked at Dumbledore with concern.
Noticing Roger's concern, Dumbledore rubbed his forehead and composed himself. "...It's nothing, just some unfortunate developments with legal reforms. Don't worry, it's just some politicians bickering among themselves. I'll handle it."
"How are things on your end? I heard that for the past half a month, the children have been incredibly engrossed in it?" Dumbledore forced a smile.
Some time had passed since the promotion of virtual reality. Dumbledore had initially been a little worried about the students' obsession with the games.
But after Roger implemented restrictions and issued some threats, the trend shifted to intensive cramming before final exams, which put Dumbledore at ease.
"It's going well so far. I think since things are going so smoothly, we should move on to the next step," Since Dumbledore said he could handle it, Roger didn't intend to do anything extra. Forcing something wouldn't make it sweet.
Moreover, helping without understanding the situation might just make things worse.
Roger began to talk about his plan to recruit a "Magic Programmer Team" to optimize the virtual reality world.
If it were just a simple recruitment, it would be Roger's private affair, and he could decide it himself.
The key was that Roger didn't plan to just recruit.
After hearing Roger's entire plan, Dumbledore couldn't help but widen his eyes and exclaim, "Starting a school? You want to be a professor?!"
"It's just a training program, not for teaching magic, but for teaching some basic Muggle programming, biology, and physics," This was Roger's plan. Wizard programmers were hard to find, so why not provide pre-job training?
Hogwarts was the only wizarding school in Britain. Roger was considering whether it would be more appropriate to run this pre-job training independently or to affiliate it with Hogwarts, creating something like an adult night school.
He wasn't very knowledgeable in this area, so he came to seek the opinion of Hogwarts' headmaster, Dumbledore.
"This..." Dumbledore scratched his forehead with his fingertip.
"Let me think." Dumbledore himself was a bit stumped by this question. He had never encountered such a thing before.
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