"Collecting faith? With all due respect, Lord Ren, the Goddess is the wisest person in this world. Even compared to the God of Wisdom, she's not lacking. Yet she still hasn't found a good solution. The spellcasters affected by the 'Magic' divine authority can't possibly become believers on a large scale. Any attempt would be futile. We've tried countless methods, even with dragons and elves..."
"You just need to relay my message... Actually, forget it. I'll tell her about this myself. You just report your own business." Ren suddenly regretted talking to this guy.
Aside from during lessons, this thing never seemed normal.
"Lord Ren..."
The book wanted to say something else but was suddenly interrupted by another voice: "The Goddess just went to handle the divine realm barrier. You just said you thought of a method to collect faith?"
"Doll, how many times do I have to tell you—don't just barge into my room."
Ren rubbed his temples and turned to look.
A very familiar face.
Pink twin tails, wearing a crown, with perfect features, dressed in gothic clothing with a hint of noble bearing.
Absolutely perfect—so perfect she didn't seem human at all.
And indeed, she wasn't human.
If you looked closely at her joints, it wasn't hard to tell she was also a magical creation.
All the intelligent beings around the Goddess of Magic seemed to be magical creations. He was the only holy spirit who'd been able to interact with the Goddess recently.
"This is the Goddess's room."
"But I live here."
"The Goddess never restricts me from coming to her bedroom."
"But I live here now."
"The Goddess..."
"How long will it take for the Goddess to return? I have some ideas."
Ren cut her off directly, not wanting to waste time on meaningless arguments.
Magical creations always had some weird quirks.
"Lord Ren, you can tell me directly. I'm the Goddess's laboratory assistant." The doll said with some pride.
"If I remember correctly, magic power can transmit information." Ren thought for a moment. "Is there any possibility we could use the magic core to design a virtual world that any spellcaster could enter with a trace of their soul through magic power? No, we don't need souls—just letting a bit of consciousness enter would be enough."
"Theoretically possible, but practically impossible. The scattered magic power isn't sufficient to support such a thing." The doll shook her head slightly.
"So it's just because there's not enough magic power?" Ren didn't feel disappointed. Instead, he was overjoyed and quickly followed up: "What about transmitting text information?"
"Just text information..." The doll pondered slightly: "No problem. We'd just need a simple magic power transceiver device. Are you thinking of using this to let magicians communicate? If that's all, it won't be enough to make them believers."
"Of course not."
Ren's face was full of joy: "Communication is just one function. What we want to do is provide them with a discussion space!"
"And who said anything about making them believers?"
It really was possible!
If all spellcasters could use the device to transmit information, wouldn't that basically be the internet?
Sure, at best they could achieve Internet 2.0—the picture era of 3.0 and video era of 4.0 weren't possible yet—but it would still be a complete game-changer!
As for faith, wouldn't they get as much as they wanted?!
Spellcasters loved pursuing truth and almost never became believers, so don't make them believers. Just require a prayer every time they opened the Magic Internet. He didn't believe faith wouldn't skyrocket!
As for later features like pictures and videos, he was confident they'd eventually be possible. It was just that this doll didn't know how to do it yet!
With this thought, Ren used the most concise and direct language possible to explain his ideas for the Magic Internet and the first application: "Magician Forum."
"You mean building a bulletin board where people can discuss things? Everyone can post announcements, and others can pick announcements to discuss?"
Ren nodded slightly: "Pretty much for the initial version. Every time they open this bulletin board, they'd need to pray once. Even as casual believers, we should get plenty of faith from those spellcasters, right?"
"But the magic core can only transmit information, not store it."
Even though she was a doll, her expressions were quite human-like.
Ren could clearly see her disappointment.
But he didn't see any problem: "Well, couldn't we add another step? Any magician could send text information through those transceiver devices you mentioned, but the information wouldn't be transmitted to others directly. Instead, it would go to one of our information storage magic devices, and everyone could view these stored messages?"
"In your terms, we'd use the magic core as an errand boy. We'd set up a bulletin board, and everyone could view or write information on it through the magic core."
Since the magic core could serve as network cables and base stations, why not just add a server?!
If the connection problem was solved, why worry about storage?
He didn't believe there wasn't some magic that could store information!
"Genius! A genius idea! I think I'm perfectly suited for this job! I just need to link myself with those transceiver devices through the magic core, and everyone could discuss things on me! Other creatures might have some difficulty, but humans naturally love getting involved in discussions—even magicians are the same. I can already imagine countless magicians discussing topics they're interested in on me every day. We could set a threshold requiring them to pray every time they access..."
The book seemed to finally understand what Ren meant and couldn't help exclaiming.
This time Ren didn't stop the chatty thing.
Because Ren was stunned.
That's right!
He'd completely forgotten about this guy!
Wasn't this thing a perfect server?!
Magical creatures were naturally able to connect with magic power.
And it was the Goddess of Magic's library, storing vast amounts of information.
He'd been thinking about devices and completely overlooked the special existence of magical creatures.
"Compared to watching the excitement, I think they'd use this device for magical discussions."
The doll clearly didn't think magicians would be like ordinary people—they were beings who pursued the world's mysteries: "But you're right. No one would refuse such a tool. Even as casual believers, those spellcasters would provide us with lots of faith."
"I'll go to the laboratory first to create some transceiver devices. You and Conoscenza can figure out how to build this bulletin board."
Ren didn't argue.
In his past life, when the internet was first established, the content online really had seemed high-quality.
It would be normal for the magician community to be like that too.
Discussing these things was meaningless—better to focus energy on creating a prototype.
"Hey... we still haven't been told when the Goddess is coming back!"
By the time Ren came back to his senses, the doll had already disappeared. "Whatever, let's get the prototype done first."
But the moment his gaze fell on the book, Ren felt his head start throbbing again.