Chapter Summaries

Apprentice explained Nylon’s potential agricultural uses to the Agriculture Goddess, who offered expert help and proposed cultivating Dragonbeard Grass on a large scale. After leaving the Technology Laboratory, Viscount Rost saw Newsbird Megan’s videos of the new clothes and began considering uniforms for the Golden Merchants' Guild.

• Viscount Rost introduced the Agriculture Goddess to Apprentice, who described possible Nylon uses for irrigation, plant supports, greenhouses, and other agricultural tools.
• The Agriculture Goddess praised Apprentice’s ideas and offered to send an agricultural archbishop to help with the projects.
• The Agriculture Goddess asked whether large-scale cultivation of Dragonbeard Grass could support Nylon production, and Apprentice agreed it would help.
• Viscount Rost asked Newsbird Megan for photos of the new clothes, and she sent him videos she had recorded.
• Viscount Rost was impressed by the clothes and messaged Labuliekang about giving Golden Merchants' Guild employees unified new uniforms.

Viscount Rost and Labuliekang planned to use uniforms and Nylon stockings to promote the Golden Merchants' Guild and Rost Territory's textile products. Viscount Rost then sent Megan a proposal for a new entertainment publication, and she realized it could succeed.

• Labuliekang explained why clothing could drive commerce across the continent and endorsed Viscount Rost's uniform proposal.
• Viscount Rost suggested that Elven and human designers create Golden Merchants' Guild uniforms and incorporate Elven patterns into Nylon stockings.
• Viscount Rost explained Nylon to Labuliekang and committed about one-third of Rost Territory's new-style clothing production to Nylon stockings.
• Viscount Rost wrote a plan for promoting fashion, clothing, and industrial products and sent it to Newsbird Megan.
• Megan read the proposal for a new entertainment-focused account across Magic Net platforms and recognized its potential.

Newsbird Megan proposed making Audrey the first guest on a lively new entertainment account that could shape public tastes and promote the Love and Beauty Church. Audrey prayed to her goddess for approval, and the Goddess of Love and Beauty was deeply moved by the idea of defining beauty, uniting her humanity and divinity.

• Megan decided to use Audrey’s popularity to launch an entertainment account featuring members of the Love and Beauty Church as models and guests.
• Audrey agreed in principle but said she needed to ask the Goddess of Love and Beauty before committing to a plan that might affect her.
• Audrey prepared herself and prayed in the church’s quiet chamber, asking the goddess to hear her proposal.
• The Goddess of Love and Beauty heard Audrey’s prayer while watching Magic Net Videos and felt her heart race at the prospect of shaping love and beauty.
• The goddess recognized the feeling as desire born from her divinity, and her humanity and divinity became perfectly unified.

Audrey told Newsbird Megan that the Goddess of Love and Beauty had agreed to be the first interview subject and cover figure for the magazine, prompting the World Economic News Agency to prioritize the project. Meanwhile, the Graycastle Emperor considered adopting Dawn Kingdom technology after a crisis had devastated his empire, and his prime minister warned that churches and nobles were already using it.

• Audrey reported the goddess's agreement to Newsbird Megan, who worried about meeting expectations and planned to inform her backer, Viscount Rost.
• The World Economic News Agency gave the magazine project greater priority than its planned long-form news project.
• The Graycastle Emperor reviewed the deaths and economic damage caused by the crisis, then recognized that the purge had also eased tensions between the new and old nobility.
• The Graycastle Emperor asked whether Graycastle should promote Magic Energy Networks and Self-Charging Magic Arrays to prevent future disasters.
• The Graycastle Prime Minister said nobles and churches were already adopting Dawn Kingdom technology, while the Royal Mage Association continued researching alternatives.

The Gray Fortress Emperor chose to embrace Magitech Industrialization while building a technology association and trade network to reduce dependence on the Dawn Kingdom. Meanwhile, the Lava General surrounded the War God Church’s final stronghold as bait, and Roger sensed something was wrong as he prepared to visit the dragon.

• The Gray Fortress Emperor ordered the creation of a technology association that would unite clergy, nobles, ministers, and merchants around Magitech development.
• The Emperor told the prime minister to continue trade with the Dawn Kingdom and have loyal nobles join the Golden Merchants' Guild as regional agents.
• The Emperor resolved to advance Magitech Industrialization despite the possibility of opposition from traditional mages.
• The Lava General ordered his forces to surround the Steel Fortress without attacking, using the remaining War God believers there as bait to expose other remnants of the church.
• Roger suddenly paused in the Goddess of Magic's Divine Kingdom, prompting someone to ask whether anything was wrong with their visit to the dragon.

Roger and the Magic Goddess traveled to Dragon Island after sensing that the Graycastle Empire might join the Magitech system. Betty joined them to find her Little Dragon, whom the Magic Goddess revealed was a dragon-shaped magical pet called Dragon Cat, and the story left them arriving on the island and deciding where to go first.

• Roger said the Graycastle Empire might be preparing to integrate into the technological system, and the Magic Goddess agreed that its participation would expand Magitech across the continent.
• Betty insisted on joining Roger and the Magic Goddess to see her Little Dragon, and the Magic Goddess explained that Little Dragon was a magical creature she had created and named Dragon Cat.
• Betty revealed that she had locked Book in a dark room after he mocked her research progress, and Roger agreed that Book could stay confined until they returned.
• Roger used his talent to take the Magic Goddess and Betty through the data network to Dragon Island, emerging from a Frost Dragon's gemstone necklace.
• The Magic Goddess offered to make Roger a gemstone necklace, and Roger asked to see the Elder Council or Dragon Cat, whose location he did not know.

Roger and the Magic Goddess arrived at Dragon Island and encountered the Sacred Dragon, whom Betty rode like a mount. The dragons mistook the visitors for gods drawn by their prayers to the Magic Net and cautiously invited them to the temple.

• Roger admired Dragon Island’s vast landscapes as the Magic Goddess explained how dragons chose places suited to them.
• Roger learned about Dragonkind’s Elder Council, governors, and Tribal Assemblies before the group reached a temple-like landing pad.
• Betty rode the Sacred Dragon toward Roger, shocking the dragons who had chased after it.
• An Ancient Dragon recalled that the Sacred Dragon had been created by the Magic Goddess to teach Dragonkind magic.
• The dragons guessed that the Magic Goddess and the figure beside her had come because of prayers related to the Magic Net, then invited them to the temple.

Roger and the Magic Goddess visited Dragonkind’s Elder Council, where the dragons hosted them for three days. The Magic Goddess revealed that Roger, as the Technology God, might be able to solve Dragonkind’s struggle to produce and raise more dragons.

• Roger saw that Dragonkind’s Elder Council occupied a vast, hollowed-out mountain filled with dragon homes and flying spaces.
• Nidhogg introduced himself as the Elder Council’s highest councilor, and the Magic Goddess recalled meeting his ancestor Leviathan.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess stayed for three days, enjoying feasts, performances, and dragon gladiatorial combat.
• Nidhogg asked why the Magic Goddess had come and admitted that Dragonkind was unlikely to embrace her faith.
• The Magic Goddess asked whether Dragonkind wanted more dragons, and Roger offered to address their difficulties with reproduction, hatching, and raising hatchlings.

Roger proposed that Dragonkind join his Parcel Express company, offering them wages and Points that could eventually let them have children. Nidhogg accepted the idea but insisted on paying to work, so Roger suggested that Dragonkind could also invest in another profitable project.

• Nidhogg worried that Roger's offer to help Dragonkind increase its population came with hidden costs.
• Roger explained that Parcel Express would pay Dragonkind couriers and award Points that could help them have children.
• Roger offered to give Dragonkind the method for increasing its numbers after one hundred years if they operated the company.
• Nidhogg eagerly accepted the delivery work and suggested that Dragonkind pay Roger as well.
• Roger refused payment for serving Magic Net users and offered Dragonkind a chance to invest in another project instead.

Roger persuaded Dragonkind to establish banks that used the Magic Net to record deposits and enable withdrawals, helping circulate gold and silver while supporting his Magitech Industry reforms. Nidhogg and the Elder Council agreed to move forward, discussing human agents, delivery logistics, and cooperation with the Golden Merchants' Guild.

• Roger explained that Dragonkind would build a chain of banks, accept deposits, issue loans, and let customers track and withdraw their money through the Magic Net.
• Nidhogg compared the proposal to existing lenders, and Roger clarified that the banks would pay depositors interest and lend the full amount rather than practice usury.
• Roger explained that the banks would use Dragonkind's treasures as startup capital and circulate money to accelerate his Magitech Industry reforms.
• Nidhogg accepted the plan and presented it to the Elder Council, whose members supported establishing the banks and related companies.
• An Ancient Dragon asked when work would begin, a Golden Dragon proposed using Golden City's City Lord's Manor as a human vanguard, and Nidhogg outlined plans for delivery partners.

The Lava General’s forces kept Krieger City under blockade as the War God Church’s remaining leaders imposed harsh controls on the growing crowd inside. After Kleck began to fear that the church was becoming a cult, the Lava General launched the next stage of his plan by distributing flyers throughout the city, and an unsettling atmosphere spread by morning.

• Kleck learned that the War God Church had been purged across eighteen nations and ordered food rationing, emergency laws, and screening camps for new arrivals.
• Kleck questioned the War God’s apparent fall and realized that he and the church’s remaining forces seemed to be becoming cultists.
• The Lava General learned that Krieger City’s leaders had restricted residents but eased searches of Magic Net Rings, and he ordered the next stage of his plan to begin that night.
• The Lava General’s infiltrators printed flyers in concealed cellars and secretly delivered them to commoners and low-ranking priests.
• The flyers spread through Krieger City overnight, creating a strange atmosphere among its residents.

The Lava General spread flyers exposing the War God Church’s corruption to stir anger among Krieger City’s clergy and civilians. Kleck ordered the flyers seized and burned, but hidden books and the public punishment of supposed offenders suggested the campaign was already escaping his control.

• The Lava General defended distributing the flyers, saying the church’s abuses should be exposed and predicting that Krieger City would soon change.
• Kleck learned that the flyers had spread for days, partly because low-ranking clergy lacked the authority or incentive to report them.
• Kleck ordered the Temple Knights to seize and burn the flyers, punish some people, and reward those who reported or surrendered them with extra food.
• The Temple Knights gathered mountains of flyers while also forcing their way into homes and causing small-scale chaos.
• Kleck ordered the flyers burned in the square, unaware that books had been hidden among them, as the crowd recognized that some people tied to crosses could not read.

The Lava General’s propaganda and the War God Church’s public executions turned Krieger City’s residents against the church and weakened the faith sustaining it. Archbishop Mad Lion Kleik recognized the threat, but explosions erupted outside as he gathered the church’s leaders.

• After residents learned that the church had burned blind and illiterate people, the crowd questioned the executions and began doubting its faith.
• The priest used magic to burn the prisoners and flyers, but the crowd responded with grief rather than fear.
• The Lava General ordered photographs of the executions printed and expanded the propaganda campaign, while rumors and flyers spread through Krieger City.
• Frustrated priests and extraordinary individuals began to question the War God Church and its leaders’ profitable wars.
• Archbishop Mad Lion Kleik warned the assembled high-ranking priests and fanatics that the Lava General had changed and that traitors might be among them.
• Thunderous explosions erupted outside the cathedral as Mad Lion Kleik finished speaking.

The Lava General led the Tech Combat Force into Krieger City as residents rebelled against the War God Church. After crushing the Templar Knights, he confronted Kleck at the cathedral and offered him a chance to join the new order.

• Residents armed themselves and marched on the cathedral, while city guards opened the gates for them.
• The Lava General led the Tech Combat Force into the city in exoskeleton armor and broadcast the stories of former War God Church priests who had joined his forces.
• The Tech Combat Force killed the Templar Knights who charged them, demonstrating the power of their weapons and armor.
• The Lava General confronted Kleck at the cathedral and argued that they sought to end the old gods' influence, not the faith of war.
• The Lava General offered Kleck a position if he abandoned his faith, and Kleck had yet to answer.

Dragons announced plans to establish Great Dragon Post and Great Dragon Bank across the continent, while Roger proposed adding Magic Net auctions to boost their business. As Roger and the Magic Goddess discussed other sales features, he noticed that Love and Beauty had appeared on the Magic Net.

• The Frost Dragon revealed that Dragonkind planned to open commercial institutions, including Great Dragon Post and Great Dragon Bank, in major cities across the continent.
• People on the Magic Net discussed the dragons’ new businesses and their plans to deliver goods, store money, and offer loans.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess watched the dragons’ expansion from Dragon Island and discussed how Golden City's lord could help the businesses succeed.
• Roger proposed continent-wide Magic Net auctions, using Great Dragon Bank to verify bidders and Great Dragon Post to appraise and deliver auction items.
• The Magic Goddess pointed out that dragon deliveries could protect auction winners from being attacked, then suggested livestream and storefront sales as well.
• Roger was surprised to sense that Love and Beauty had appeared on the Magic Net.

Roger and the Magic Goddess promoted new-style clothing through the Magic Net, while Viscount Rost and Labuliekang prepared a continent-wide campaign to bring it into aristocratic circles. The chapter ended with thousands of promotional banquets underway and the Goddess of Love and Beauty excited by the response.

• The Magic Goddess learned that Rost's World Economic News Agency had launched a fashion account and spread its interview across the Magic Net's different functions.
• The Magic Goddess transformed her clothes into a distinctive new-style dress and promoted the Beauty of Magitech Industry alongside the clothing.
• Roger pushed the interview to the front of the Magic Net, where users praised the Goddess's fashion advice and the new designs.
• Viscount Rost contacted Labuliekang and ordered guild agents to wear new-style clothes and promote them at banquets.
• Labuliekang reported that more than a thousand banquets would promote the clothes that night, while Viscount Rost noted that guild branches had already received large shipments.

The Goddess of Love and Beauty sought Nature God's help developing natural perfumes, while Despair Black Dragon Nidhogg reported that Dragonkind had nearly established its logistics company and bank. Roger returned to his Divine Kingdom with the Magic Goddess and Betty, then demanded that Betty release Book because he had work for him.

• The Goddess of Love and Beauty decided to develop perfumes and cosmetics with Nature God after new fashions increased her Authority and Faith Power.
• Nature God told the Goddess of Love and Beauty about his effort to cultivate bees that were gentler and produced more honey.
• Despair Black Dragon Nidhogg reported that Dragonkind had opened its two companies in major cities with help from Golden City and the Elves' Golden Merchants' Guild.
• Roger learned of the dragons' progress and returned with the Magic Goddess, stopping to collect Betty from the Elder Council.
• Betty complained that Roger and the Magic Goddess had left without her, but Roger defended himself and then asked her to release Book.

Roger summoned the book to handle a new feature and a feature update, while Ayr Thompson hosted a banquet for the Graycastle Empire’s new nobles. The guests speculated about his purpose, then focused on the couple’s distinctive new-style clothing as they entered.

• The book complained to Roger about being confined, and Roger reminded it that he had seen it chatting on the Magic Net.
• Roger told the book he needed one new feature and one feature update, and it eagerly asked for the task.
• New nobles gathered at Ayr Thompson’s estate, where the extravagant banquet and Magic Net access sparked speculation about why he had invited them.
• The banquet doors opened automatically through new Magitech Machinery, and Ayr Thompson and his wife entered wearing elegant new-style clothing.
• The nobles wondered whether the clothing was the real purpose of Ayr Thompson’s banquet.

Odd Coin Ayr Thompson introduced the Golden Merchants' Guild's new-style clothing and regional agency opportunities to Graycastle's new nobles. The nobles embraced the offers, and crowds gathered outside the guild's stores the next morning.

• Odd Coin Ayr Thompson presented new-style clothing as a sign of the new nobles' advancement and distributed VIP cards for the Golden Merchants' Guild.
• Odd Coin Ayr Thompson explained that he was the guild's general agent for the Graycastle Empire and invited nobles to become regional agents.
• A noble from Brett City agreed to take responsibility for the surrounding region, and other nobles became eager to join the guild's expansion.
• After the banquet, nobles shared the opportunity through the Magic Net while Golden Merchants' Guild members recruited agents and promoted the new clothing.
• By the next morning, crowds had gathered outside Golden Merchants' Guild stores before they opened.

New-style clothes went on sale across the continent, drawing huge crowds and generating widespread attention on the Magic Net. Roger and the Magic Goddess discussed how the clothing craze could help spread the Magitech Textile Industry and accelerate industrialization.

• Nobles and other customers crowded Golden Merchants' Guild stores across the continent to buy new-style clothes, while the clerks' uniforms heightened their anticipation.
• Labuliekang watched customers queue at the Elf Capital branch and praised the appeal of the clothes and nylon stockings.
• More than a thousand Golden Merchants' Guild stores opened at once, and crowds and Magic Net videos made the launch a continent-wide sensation.
• The Magic Goddess told Roger that the product had succeeded, and Roger explained that he planned to use its popularity to promote machinery and Magitech Industry professionals.
• Roger said the craze could help the Magitech Textile Industry spread and make industrialization more attractive to nobles.