Value Beyond Measure

A rudimentary play filmed in a street square of Saint Suniel was playing on Gawain's desk, already on its second loop.

Amber blinked as she watched the comical drama projected from the crystal, her amber eyes brimming with interest.

Throughout the entire playback, for more than ten minutes, Gawain did not say a word—but his line of sight never left the Magical Devices on the desk.

His Majesty the Emperor's silence and the solemn atmosphere around him made the young playwright from Baren extremely nervous. He had long since stopped telling his story and could only wait uneasily in the silence, as if he were not presenting a creation he was proud of, but awaiting judgment.

Only now did the turbulent thoughts in Gawain's mind gradually settle.

This was film and television moved onto the Magic Net Terminal—the prototype of cinema. It was something he had once envisioned but had not yet found the time to bring into being.

What did the establishment of the Magic Net Broadcast system mean? Perhaps no scholar or philosopher of this age could accurately calculate or summarize everything it represented. Even Gawain himself could only broadly say, "It will change the whole world." Yet one thing was beyond doubt: as a medium capable of rapidly disseminating vast quantities of information, the Magic Net Broadcast's role was far more than everyday communication, announcements from the Administrative Hall, or advertisements from major merchants.

It could shoulder the spiritual needs of the New Era—when Cecilians could eat their fill and dress warmly, when basic literacy was no longer a privilege of nobles and merchants, when people were no longer content with mere survival and monotonous entertainment, they would inevitably seek something more elevated.

And as someone who had lived through it before, Gawain knew all too well