Roger's voice snapped Betty out of her wild thoughts. She immediately said somewhat angrily, "They clearly all use life magic, yet they treat magic like sorcery and insist that the life magic they wield is a Druid class skill. The High Collar Kingdom is the same. Even if they are protected by the Elven Kingdom, they are still a genuine human kingdom. How can they be like this too?!"
"Maybe because of the Druid Sect? They seem to worship the Nature God, right?" Roger said uncertainly. "I was originally worried that they would be too conservative and unwilling to change by using the Magic Web. I didn't expect the problem to be even trickier than I thought."
Getting followers of another sect to pray to the Magic Goddess and himself was no easy matter...
Betty snorted. "The Church of Light's followers worship the God of Light too, and their church has the strictest rules among all the gods. Didn't they choose to use the Magic Web as well?!"
"Huh? The Church of Light is using the Magic Web?"
Roger was clearly stunned, then revealed an enlightened expression. "Those extremely weak traces of Faith Power must have come from them! I was wondering why I had been receiving some relatively faint Faith Power so often lately."
"Yes. The stronger the followers of the God of Light are, the less Faith Power they provide us when they pray. But they are still praying, and Faith Power is indeed being produced, so..."
"As long as it can produce faith, let them use it." Roger waved his hand. "The Church of Light's headquarters is in the Dawn Kingdom's capital. Wouldn't it be a good thing to use the church's influence to spread the Magic Web to every Light Church Chapel in the world?"
He suddenly seemed to understand where all those red dots that had abruptly appeared in so many remote places had come from!
That was quite good too. Wasn't faint faith still faith?
Even mosquito meat was still meat!
Besides, while each individual contribution was faint, the entire church together was still quite considerable.
And how many powerful priests could there be?
Weren't most priests still low-level ones? The reduction wasn't that noticeable, was it?
Moreover, the Church of Light was not only present in the Dawn Kingdom. Nearly every human kingdom across the world had faith in the God of Light. Wouldn't it be a good thing to use them to cover more than half the world with the Magic Web?
After a brief silence, Roger finally said, "Since the priests of the Church of Light and the War God Church are both using the Magic Web, the Elven Kingdom should only be a matter of time. Once they realize the Magic Web's usefulness, it should be about time."
"I hope so..." Betty opened her mouth, but ultimately said nothing.
In truth, the biggest reason they had run into obstacles in the Elven Kingdom was that, in theory, the Elven Queen was the chief high priestess of the Druid Nature Sect. Their nation united political and religious authority.
If they could not gain the Elven Queen's support, then the Magic Web would never be able to see the light of day in the Elven Kingdom.
After a brief silence, Betty seemed to think of something and suddenly said, "Um, Roger, I think the Magic Web itself—or rather, the Magic Space—should undergo some revisions. As our general followers keep increasing, the information in the Magic Space has become a little cluttered."
"Cluttered? Oh, that's true. Their posts are currently sorted by popularity, but now there are too many people posting, so many posts might get buried."
Roger froze slightly, but quickly reacted. "I've got it! We can split the entire Magic Space forum into multiple forums. That way, everyone can quickly find topics that interest them."
"Split it?"
"For example, click on 'magic,' and all the posts inside would be about magic. Click on 'magic arrays,' and all the posts inside would be about magic arrays. 'Runes,' 'magic items,' 'magical creatures,' and so on—we can split them all out."
Roger had originally intended to handle it like the category divisions of ordinary forums, but while explaining it, he suddenly thought of Tieba. "We could even let users create these subcategories themselves. 'Ruins,' 'food,' 'etiquette,' 'bounties,' and so on. There are far too many possibilities. What we can think of is limited, but what they want to discuss is truly endless."
Letting users create their own "bars" for subjects that interested them, then speak freely within them, was clearly a better and more complete choice.
In fact, Tieba had once been an excellent product. It was just ruined by people later on.
Besides the overall division, Roger also suggested adding some small features to enrich the fun of the entire Magic Space.
"This method is absolutely brilliant! Ever since there have been more followers, some people have started complaining about this issue. I've been worrying over whether there was any way to solve it, but I could never think of a good one. Now that I've heard your words, it feels as though I've read ten thousand years' worth of books. As expected of the inventor of the Magic Web, Lord Roger! My admiration for you... No, why do you look so disappointed? Logically speaking, after such reforms, all the problems should be solved!"
After hearing Roger's reform suggestions, the book glowed with excitement from cover to cover, showering him with endless praise. Yet after its excitement faded, he noticed Roger's expression and could not help but feel puzzled.
"N-No, it's nothing. It's quite good."
Roger waved his hand. "Go make the changes quickly. Once they're complete, update them together with the Magic Encyclopedia's levels. That should basically perfect all the current functions."
"Are you thinking of some strange new feature again?"
After the book left, Betty thought for a moment before asking, "Or have you come up with another idea?"
"No." Roger shook his head slightly. "I was just thinking how great it would be if our Magic Web could transmit images, or even videos. Unfortunately, the natural magic scattered throughout the mortal world simply isn't enough to support image transmission."
The magic dispersed everywhere was like a 2G Network. It was fine for transmitting text, but transmitting images was practically a fantasy.
Even if they barely managed to develop it, it would most likely freeze during transmission.
"Images? Videos?"
"They're visuals. An image is a picture that appears in a single instant, while a video is a continuous sequence, just like how we see everything in the mortal world." Roger quickly explained these two unfamiliar terms to Betty.
"I actually have an idea." After pondering for a moment, Betty said with a smile, "Do you remember the Self-Charging Magic Array?"
"Of course. What does that have to do with it?" Roger was clearly startled, but quickly caught on. "Are you saying Magic Web information can be transmitted through the stronger magic power of the Self-Charging Magic Array?"
"More precisely, through the Self-Charging Magic Arrays we enhanced. But they would also need the support of some magic items. First, the Magic Core would transmit signals to the Self-Charging Magic Array, then every person using the Magic Web through a Self-Charging Magic Array would receive them."
Betty analyzed it carefully. "But there is still a problem. Even if we develop the upgrade, the area a Self-Charging Magic Array can cover will still be limited."
"No, this is already very good. Besides, isn't this only the basic version? Only after taking the first step can we take the second. When you have time, study it properly." Roger was beginning to grow excited.
If they could succeed, wouldn't that be equivalent to having broadband—a wired network?
That was, more or less, a major step forward.
But it seemed that in order to achieve it, they would need to popularize the Self-Charging Magic Array first.
Perhaps it was time to give the Self-Charging Magic Array a new name as well... Magic Energy Network, perhaps?! Something like a fusion of the power grid and broadband from his previous life!
At that moment, within the nobles' district of Dawn Capital, a special small-scale banquet was quietly underway.
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