Expensive? (Second Update, Making Up for Yesterday)

Testing of the battle armor's performance has temporarily come to an end.

In the remaining time, Lin Xiaowei asked Bart Yuda to quickly familiarize himself with the use of various battle armors and to develop ingenious ways to use them in order to deal with various situations that might be encountered on the arena! Because it was necessary to keep it a secret in the early stages, Lin Xiaowei only allowed the three Training Master to spar with Bart Yuda and permitted them to use powerful combat techniques. Only in this way could the limits of these battle armors be tested.

The Martial Arts Tournament proceeded smoothly under Jiang Zhiying's supervision.

There's not much to worry about in terms of construction.

The initial publicity and promotion went well.

After all, Lin Xiaowei already had enough fame and influence in the other world, and the post she made before had a very explosive publicity effect.

In this short period of time alone, thousands of soldiers have signed up!

Moreover, they are all warriors with a renowned reputation in a certain region!

As for why they are all soldiers with prestigious titles... it's because Lin Xiaowei only covers their food and lodging, but does not reimburse their travel expenses.

Just getting from all over the mainland to the Han Plane would cost a considerable amount of money!

The cost of using the portal accounts for a significant portion of this! Without exceptional skills, one might not even be able to afford the travel expenses! This is a very clever screening method; travel expenses can filter out a large number of incompetent warriors in advance.

certainly,

There might be Lucky Guy who find a treasure, or perhaps someone from a wealthy family wants to participate in this Martial Arts Tournament... that's fine too.

The arrival of such foolish and wealthy individuals will not only boost consumption in the Han Plane,

It can also serve as a fairly good form of publicity.

However, this is similar in any world; trends are often led from the top down.

More accurately, so-called trends are merely imitations of the upper class by the lower class.

Even on Earth, so-called luxury brands seek out big names in various fields for promotion, thereby inspiring imitation among the lower classes—as if wearing and using jewelry and bags from the same brands as the upper class would allow them to join the upper class as well.

But in reality, it was a very insidious trap.

The power of the upper class does not come from these external things, but from the means of production and assets they control.

They may have spent the same amount of money as you.

But the money they spent was just a tiny fraction of what their assets or means of production derived from.

And the imitators may spend their savings of several months or even half a year! These are all tricks that the bourgeoisie on earth have used to exploit the middle class to the bone, yet fresh leeks keep popping up for them to harvest every moment.

Lin Xiaowei simply adopted this approach!

After all, the countries in this Main World continent still retain a relatively primitive aristocratic class.

These nobles also controlled large amounts of land and factories, but compared to Lin Xiaowei, they were like little brothers! The key was to squeeze every last drop of money out of them.

Then, Lin Xiaowei wanted to invest in education, healthcare, infrastructure, and other areas to improve the quality of life for most people in the Main World and promote the prosperity of the entire population to ensure their motivation to learn and improve.

After all, mages originate from ordinary people. As long as the base of ordinary people is large enough, some exceptionally talented geniuses will always emerge every year!

This is the difference between the mindset of a monk and the mindset of an aristocrat.

They are pursuing the interests of one ethnic group and one nation.

But the mages have their eyes on the whole world!

Lin Xiaowei returned to the Weiyang Palace. She had been busy with the Martial Arts Tournament and her personal cultivation had been somewhat delayed, so she needed to take some time to refine her skills.

However, before she could even enter a meditative state, Jiang Zhiying rushed over in a flurry!

She asked, "Your Majesty, how should we set the ticket price?"

Jiang Zhiying had only been to the Main World a few times. Although he learned a lot about the Main World from Lin Xiaowei and roughly knew the purchasing power of the Gold Coin in the Main World, he did not really understand the class structure in the Main World and the purchasing power of different classes.

That's why she came to Lin Xiaowei to discuss the ticket price.

Hearing Jiang Zhiying ask this,

Lin Xiaowei slapped her palm and said, "Look at my brain! The ticket price is set at 350 Gold Coin. But we need to keep some for ourselves, and some for the kings and nobles of the various countries in the Han Plane. The rest will be sold on our forum."

Well, at this point, the forum's function is actually somewhat limited.

According to Lin Xiaowei's idea, a website could actually be built directly on Magic Internet. However, complex information interaction has not yet been developed, the storage of Rune Byte is not simplified enough, and the devices for storing interactive information are still relatively rudimentary, so they cannot handle a large amount of information.

The association has already dispatched a group of rune experts and alchemy masters to study this area.

The progress of research can never keep up with the pace of posts from netizens, so we can only keep expanding the reserve modules.

This is making the association a little uncomfortable...

On the one hand, the expenses are very high.

On the other hand, the benefits brought by the Magic Internet are also very real.

The various labor unions and associations made a lot of money just from renting out domain names and "Information Storage Module" for their forums.

even...

The association has uncovered numerous sinister plots targeting the association or the Main World using the Magic Internet! I wonder what those guys were thinking.

They even used the Magic Internet to communicate before causing trouble... Lin Xiaowei's Internet Supervision Department is screening suspicious information every day! Oh right! The Magic Internet alone has created several thousand jobs so far, to the point that the association's low-level mages are not enough to meet the demand.

This led the association to invest the money earned from the Magic Internet into the training of mage resources...

This has also spurred the emergence of more scholars in the field of runes, resulting in numerous achievements in rune research, rune structure weaving and compression, and these achievements can be applied to all aspects of mage techniques!

The increase in the number of mages and the expansion of knowledge about runes—these are the "benefits" the Magic Association truly desires! Other things like money are merely incidental gains!

These factors alone make it impossible for the association to abandon research in the field of Magic Internet.

However, setting up a more complex website requires more resources, and changing the underlying architecture is even more complicated. Therefore, the association has temporarily rejected Lin Xiaowei's request to build an individual website.

This also caused Lin Xiaowei's subsequent plans, such as developing a live streaming website, a movie website, and a rune-flow software, to be shelved.

Even the most basic emojis haven't been added! Lin Xiaowei feels a pang of heartache every time she thinks about this! A chat room without emojis is soulless!

Seeing Lin Xiaowei lost in thought, Jiang Zhiying waved her hand and asked, "Your Majesty? Your Majesty!"

Lin Xiaowei snapped out of her daze. "Huh?"

Jiang Zhiying hesitated and said, "More than three hundred Gold Coin... isn't that too expensive?"

You should know that Gold Coin are a currency with considerable purchasing power, and she vaguely remembered that the annual income of some mid-to-lower-tier nobles in the Main World world was only about that amount!

Buy a ticket with a year's income?

Jiang Zhiying thought this was too extravagant! But Lin Xiaowei exclaimed dramatically, "Expensive? I'm only showing it to them at this price!"

Jiang Zhiying: "???"

This is the second update, making up for yesterday's post. Thanks to Hell Cat for the generous donation! Hope you enjoy reading!