Chapter Summaries

The gods considered how to gain followers through the Magic Net, and the Music God argued that knowledge and entertainment drew the most attention. The Hearthfire Pope launched a cooking video that impressed Roger, while Roger then opened a wilderness-hunting video from the Hunting Church.

• The Music God explained that gods should compete for faith on the Magic Net by sharing knowledge and entertainment.
• The Hearthfire Pope told his clergy to make videos on subjects such as banquet cuisine and cooking extraordinary creatures, and required each of them to release one every seven days.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess watched the Hearthfire Pope's roast turkey tutorial, and Roger praised its production and cooking instruction.
• Roger opened a video in which the Hunting Church's archbishop introduced daily wilderness tips and presented his Three-Headed Hound companions.

Roger and the Magic Goddess watched a Hunting Church video about Three-Headed Hounds, and Roger boosted it on the Magic Net. As the Hunting God Society competed for rewards in the Video Grand Hunt, the Hunting Pope’s donkey-hoof video gained attention for an unexpected reason.

• Roger and the Magic Goddess watched the Hunting Church archbishop’s educational video about Three-Headed Hounds and read the lively comments beneath it.
• Roger decided to support the video with extra traffic, sending its views and likes soaring.
• The archbishop and Judy celebrated their video’s popularity and planned to hunt rare beasts for more footage to compete in the Video Grand Hunt.
• Judy learned that the Hunting Pope had uploaded a donkey-hoof video and suggested they challenge his position.
• The Hunting Pope read a comment from a viewer who credited his donkey-hoof video with helping them become a Formal Mage, then wondered why they called him Senior Donkey.

Edwin planned a wilderness-survival video for the Hunting Church’s Video Grand Hunt, while Karl Brown filmed his bizarre Crystal Parrot after his Bounty Board proposal was rejected. The chapter left Karl ready to post his demonstration and Edwin preparing to pursue his plan.

• Edwin showed his younger brother a plan to teach people survival skills in harsh environments and said it could help him become a senior bishop.
• Edwin argued that wilderness survival fit the Hunting God’s domain, and his younger brother eagerly asked when they would leave.
• Karl Brown, known as Reverse Merlin, complained after the Magic Net rejected his Bounty Board proposal again.
• Karl demonstrated his Crystal Parrot, an alchemical creation that spoke in different languages and dialects but gave irrelevant answers.
• Karl made a stand and fill light, filmed the parrot, and titled the video about an elderly noble who called him a madman.

Alchemist Karl Brown showcased his faulty but foul-mouthed Crystal Parrot in a video, believing the audience’s amused reactions meant they appreciated his work. A young noble in the Dawn Kingdom decided the parrot could help him handle his relatives and contacted Karl to buy one.

• Karl Brown demonstrated that his Crystal Parrot could chat, though it gave mostly irrelevant answers and unleashed abuse when it encountered certain keywords.
• Viewers joked about the parrot’s shortcomings, while Karl mistook their comments and growing interest for genuine appreciation.
• Karl decided to retrieve more of his neglected creations and make videos about them.
• A young noble in the Dawn Kingdom saw the video and decided the Crystal Parrot could insult his troublesome relatives for him.
• The young noble messaged Karl to ask about buying a Crystal Parrot, and Roger noticed the video from the Goddess of Magic’s Divine Kingdom.

Roger discussed using videos and online shopping to stimulate industrial growth, while the Goddess of Love and Beauty turned to Magic Net videos and began a ritual to promote her ideals of beauty. The chapter left her poised to become one of the era’s most powerful figures.

• Roger explained to the Magic Goddess how video storefronts could let viewers order goods directly, and identified mail delivery as the main obstacle.
• The Magic Goddess agreed that widespread ultra-high-speed trains could solve the delivery problem, while Roger said the Lava General’s new divine spells and magitech weapons were helping end the wars.
• Roger granted Master Karl’s Crystal Parrot video more traffic through the creator support program.
• After hearing that the Hunting God’s Faith Power had risen by thirty percent through Magic Net videos, the Goddess of Love and Beauty browsed the platform and criticized its popular creators for being ugly.
• The Goddess of Love and Beauty ordered her priests to cleanse people’s hearts and promote beauty, prompting the Church of Love and Beauty to begin a miracle-like ritual.

Horace lost nearly two hours watching Church of Love and Beauty videos instead of returning to work on magitech projects with the Wild Mage. As the Goddess of Love and Beauty reveled in the flood of Faith Power from the videos, she wondered how Hunting’s Pope and other unusual figures gained viewers.

• Horace kept delaying work to watch videos of priests from the Church of Love and Beauty on the Magic Net.
• The Wild Mage caught Horace outside the laboratory and urged him to help implement Viscount Rost’s project, which could improve food supplies across the continent.
• The Wild Mage described addictive blacksmithing videos and said they would work on the project while they waited for materials needed for the Super-High-Speed Train.
• Horace returned to work without realizing that the Church of Love and Beauty’s videos had already captivated viewers across the world.
• The Goddess of Love and Beauty received a surge of Faith Power from the videos and began wondering why viewers also watched Hunting’s Pope and other unusual figures.

Roger gathered dozens of gods to establish the Gods' Animal and Plant Research Institute, promising to share Faith Power from its discoveries according to each god's contribution. He outlined research priorities for improving agriculture and population growth, but Agriculture Goddess questioned whether higher-yield forage grass could meaningfully increase livestock numbers.

• Roger invited the gods to join the Gods' Animal and Plant Research Institute, which would develop animals, plants, and related technologies to help mortals and expand the population.
• The gods eagerly agreed, signed a binding contract to divide Faith Power according to their contributions, and gave the top contributor naming rights for each invention.
• Roger explained that agricultural advances could also supply raw materials for Magitech Industry and listed grain, forage grass, cotton, vegetables, fruit, livestock, and poultry as urgent research directions.
• Roger promised to promote advantageous new varieties through the Magic Net, giving every god a chance to benefit from research and wider attention.
• Agriculture Goddess questioned whether developing higher-yield forage grass would be enough to rapidly increase livestock numbers.

Roger showed the gods a Magitech livestock farm and explained how improved crops and animals could make food affordable for mortals. The gods agreed to contribute their Divine Kingdoms and powers to agricultural research, then organized teams for projects including grains, Druid Potion, forage grass, and cattle.

• Roger showed the Agriculture Goddess and the other gods a Magitech farm with automated feeding, cleaning, and fertilizer production.
• Roger explained that new forage, poultry, and livestock varieties combined with Magitech farming could increase food supplies and help prevent mortal starvation.
• The Agriculture Goddess offered her Divine Kingdom, where plants grew ten times faster and weather could be controlled, for research and experiments.
• The Nature God said he could further accelerate plant and animal growth, prompting the gods to recognize how quickly they could develop new varieties.
• The gods formed research teams for projects such as grains, more nutritious Druid Potion, forage grass, and cattle.

Con Artist Megan assessed how Magic Net Videos could transform the World Economic News Agency and directed her staff to build a video news team. The meeting ended with a proposal to release a daily news program at a fixed time.

• The Magic Goddess asked whether the agricultural gods could improve mortal food, and Roger expressed confidence in their abilities.
• Con Artist Megan warned her subordinates that videos offered the agency an opportunity but also threatened its reputation if competitors moved first.
• Con Artist Megan identified reporter safety and developing an engaging video format as the agency’s main challenges.
• Several subordinates proposed recruiting successful video creators, and Con Artist Megan’s team accepted the idea as a way to build a video news staff.
• A subordinate suggested releasing the day’s most important news at a fixed time each day to encourage users to check the agency’s account regularly.

Con Artist Megan established long-form, short-form, and written news sections, while the Goddess of Love and Beauty discovered that Audrey Roland’s videos had attracted enormous viewership and pure Faith Power. She considered promoting Audrey to teach the Church’s priests how to make successful videos.

• Con Artist Megan explained that the daily long-form news would use a fixed studio format, with presenters reading scripted stories and reporters’ footage added when needed.
• The editors agreed on long-form video news, short-form video news, and written news as the organization’s three main sections.
• The Goddess of Love and Beauty recalled how her priests’ imitations of popular videos had failed to match the originals’ popularity or bring her much Faith Power.
• The Goddess of Love and Beauty sensed a surge of faith from casual believers and traced it to Audrey Roland’s viral videos.
• The Goddess of Love and Beauty watched Audrey’s most-liked video and was impressed by its music, editing, lighting, and dramatic outfit change.
• The Goddess of Love and Beauty considered promoting Audrey to teach the other priests her video-making techniques.

The Goddess of Love and Beauty summoned Priestess Audrey Roland to learn how her videos attracted viewers and appointed her an Archbishop in charge of spreading faith through Magic Net Videos. The Tailor God arrived with Technology God’s advice and a collection of clothes, prompting the Goddess to question what he expected to gain from working with her church.

• The Goddess of Love and Beauty summoned Priestess Audrey Roland and learned about her use of music, lighting, partial concealment, and persona in her videos.
• The Goddess appointed Audrey Roland Archbishop and tasked her with guiding others in spreading the faith through Magic Net Videos.
• The Tailor God arrived and said he wanted to cooperate with the Goddess after receiving advice from Technology God.
• The Tailor God revealed that he had become a subordinate of Technology God and gained Faith Power from textile and garment workers as mechanized production changed the industry.
• The Tailor God offered clothes for church members to use in videos, and the Goddess asked whether he expected them to credit him or pray to him.

Roger explained that he gave the Tailor God’s new clothes to the Church of Love and Beauty for free so its clergy would promote them and help drive Magitech Industrialization. While browsing the Magic Net, Roger then spotted a video of a Frost Dragon using its breath and checked whether dragonkind had begun using the network.

• The Tailor God offered the clothes to the Goddess of Love and Beauty, who asked him to become her subordinate god in exchange for better terms.
• In the Magic Divine Kingdom, the Magic Goddess questioned why Roger had given the Goddess of Love and Beauty the clothes without asking for a share of her faith.
• Roger explained that the Love and Beauty Church would serve as free models and advertisements, helping sell clothes and expand the Magic Net.
• The Magic Goddess questioned whether the unusual clothes would sell, and Roger said he hoped they would appeal to people’s desire for beauty.
• Roger noticed a video of a Frost Dragon displaying its powerful ice breath and learned from the Magic Goddess that it had Legendary physical strength but Advanced Mage-level magic.
• Roger excitedly opened a Magic Net distribution map to see whether dragonkind had started using the network.

Roger planned to recruit Dragonkind as couriers and use their accumulated gold to support online auctions and banking. Meanwhile, Audrey Roland tried on the Tailor God’s new garments and was appointed archbishop to promote them, with permission to expand her church in Rost Territory.

• Roger proposed recruiting dragons as couriers for online auctions and using their gold to develop banking, while Betty doubted they would cooperate.
• Roger said he had a way to persuade Dragonkind and left to make preparations.
• The Tailor God departed the Love and Beauty Divine Kingdom, and the Goddess of Love and Beauty asked Audrey Roland to try on the new clothes.
• Audrey put on the stockings and other garments, impressing the Goddess of Love and Beauty with how they enhanced beauty.
• The Goddess of Love and Beauty appointed Audrey archbishop and ordered her to promote the garments, then allowed her to expand the church in Rost Territory instead of moving to headquarters.

Audrey learned that the Goddess of Love and Beauty had promoted her to archbishop and planned to establish a second church headquarters in Rost Territory. She excitedly told Newsbird Megan, who understood that Audrey’s success on Magic Net had caught the Goddess’s attention.

• The Goddess of Love and Beauty decided that Rost Territory would be a suitable location for a church headquarters and appreciated Audrey’s proposal.
• Audrey laughed over the clothes delivered by the Tailor Gods, then rushed to Megan’s home late at night.
• Audrey told Megan that she had become an archbishop and that the church would establish a new headquarters in Rost Territory.
• Megan doubted Audrey’s claims until Audrey showed her the divine gifts.
• Megan connected Audrey’s promotion to the popularity of her videos on Magic Net.

Megan recognized that the new god-made clothes could fuel viral outfit-change videos and major news, while Audrey posted a striking new look that drew widespread praise. Inspired by Audrey’s video, playwright Louis Auguste began sketching her as the heroine of a new era of storytelling.

• Megan admired the new garments and urged Audrey to tell her the story behind the Love and Beauty Church’s promotion, plans, and collaboration with the gods.
• Audrey explained that the Technology God and Tailor God had created the clothes and that the church planned to buy them in bulk and sell some to its believers.
• Two hours later, Audrey posted a video switching from church attire to a black-and-white outfit, and viewers flooded it with praise and questions about where to buy it.
• Audrey replied that the clothes were gifts from three gods and would soon become available in the mortal world.
• In the Dawn Capital, Louis Auguste watched Audrey’s video, sketched her, and decided she embodied the heroine needed for a new era of storytelling.

Louis Auguste planned a radical new kind of play for Magic Net Videos, but his younger brother doubted its artistic and commercial prospects. As Audrey and Megan built momentum for their fashion videos and Audrey’s church appointment, Viscount Rost discovered that new-style clothes had reached Rost Territory without his knowledge and began investigating.

• Louis Auguste showed his younger brother his unconventional play plan, and his brother warned that it could damage the family’s reputation and theater while questioning how it would make money.
• Louis Auguste defended adapting to Magic Net, but the brothers parted on bad terms after he failed to answer his brother’s concerns.
• Audrey asked Megan to release her remaining fashion videos at once, but Megan insisted on spacing them out and urged Audrey to confirm her appointment as archbishop of the Love and Beauty Church.
• Megan received a message from Viscount Rost and learned that new-style clothes had been given to the Goddess of Love and Beauty’s followers in Rost Territory, though local factory managers knew nothing about them.
• Viscount Rost questioned Megan about the clothes and contacted Wild Mages and apprentices to investigate their origin and decide how to respond.

Viscount Rost learned that the Technology Laboratory was developing powerful synthetic materials and went there to investigate. He met the Nature God, who offered a partnership to produce and distribute three Druid Potions with the Golden Elves in the Dawn Southlands.

• The Wild Mage told Viscount Rost that the laboratory was developing new materials with uses in clothing, industry, medicine, and military supplies.
• Viscount Rost hurried to the Technology Laboratory and encountered the Nature God, who asked him to use the name Old Druid.
• The Nature God presented Green Bottle Nature No. 1, Red Bottle Nature No. 1, and Blue Bottle Nature No. 1, describing their benefits for plant growth and crop protection.
• The Nature God asked Viscount Rost to cooperate with the Golden Elves to establish a factory in the Dawn Southlands and keep the potions’ names unchanged.
• The Nature God said he had initially wanted another person who could enter the laboratory to handle the project, but that person had become too frightened to come in.

Viscount Rost promised to promote the Nature God’s new crops and proposed an agricultural news channel, while Roger learned that the Agriculture Goddess’s high-yield Golden Ear Grain lost productivity across generations. Roger suggested that she distribute fresh seed to mortals annually while continuing to investigate the problem.

• The Nature God reassured Viscount Rost that he did not mind Elves worshipping another god and asked him to promote the three varieties of Nature One.
• Viscount Rost offered to create a World Agricultural News Agency or an agricultural channel to report the gods’ farming results.
• The Agriculture Goddess showed Roger Golden Ear Grain and shared data indicating that it grew quickly, yielded heavily, and could thrive across many climates.
• The Agriculture Goddess explained that Golden Ear Grain’s yield and germination rate declined with each generation of seed, potentially making it unplantable by the fourth generation.
• Roger told the Agriculture Goddess to keep investigating while supplying mortals with fresh seeds each year, possibly through annual prayers during the Month of Renewal.

Roger helped the Agriculture Goddess plan the spread of Golden Ear Grain and connected her with Viscount Rost, whose company controlled vast tracts of undeveloped farmland. Their exchange of information revealed how the new grain, agricultural machinery, and other advances could transform food production, leaving Roger pleased with the possibilities.

• The Agriculture Goddess agreed to keep developing new grains while using Golden Ear Grain as an emergency measure, and Roger advised her to consider crops for livestock and industry as well as food.
• Roger showed her a map of farmland suitable for Golden Ear Grain and explained that the War God's final battle had left a huge central region uncultivated.
• Roger brought the Agriculture Goddess to his illusionary space, where she met Viscount Rost and learned that the Dawn Southlands Development Company controlled fifty-eight million mu of land.
• The Agriculture Goddess offered her high-yield grain and help from the Agricultural Divine Society, while Rost said his agricultural Magitech Devices could plant and harvest the land.
• The Agriculture Goddess, the Nature God, and Rost exchanged information about mass-produced Druid Potions, grain yields, and agricultural machinery, as Roger watched with satisfaction.

The Agriculture Goddess, Nature God, and Viscount Rost arranged church support for the Southlands’ agricultural and industrial projects. Apprentice then revealed that he had successfully woven Nylon into fabric, prompting the gods to consider how they could contribute to its production and use.

• The Magic Goddess brought Roger pastries as they watched the Southlands project, and Roger looked forward to its impact on food production and population growth.
• Viscount Rost persuaded the Agriculture Goddess and Nature God to send clergy to the Southlands Development Company with wages and profit-sharing.
• The Agriculture Goddess agreed to deliver Golden Ear Grain seeds, while Viscount Rost said preparations for a Druid Potion Factory could begin soon.
• Viscount Rost explained that he was waiting to see a new material from the Technology Laboratory, and the gods considered how plants and minerals might be used to improve it.
• Apprentice emerged with translucent Nylon fabric and said the territory could begin producing it within hours.
• The Agriculture Goddess asked how Nylon could be used in agriculture and whether it was made from Dragonbeard Grass and a mineral.