Chapter Summaries

The Magitech Medical Laboratory established a factory that mass-produced Light Holy Water, surprising Roger and the Magic Goddess as they considered how to scale up the Nature God's Druid Potions. In the Southlands, factory experts and Light God priests celebrated production levels that dwarfed the church's previous output.

• The Rost Viscountcy founded the Magitech Medical Laboratory, which organized researchers and mages to study medicine and mass production.
• Roger and the Magic Goddess watched Light Holy Water become the first industrially produced medicine and discussed its value for treating injuries.
• Roger considered helping the Nature God increase Druid Potion production, and the Magic Goddess identified mass-producing ingredients as a likely obstacle.
• Experts in the Southlands discovered the factory could produce five million bottles of Light Holy Water a year, with ten million possible if they had enough bottles.
• The Light God priests realized the factory's daily output already rivaled the church's former monthly production and understood the Pope's plan.

A high-ranking priest questioned the decision to sell Holy Water, but a factory manager and technician explained how open sales could support production and spread faith in the God of Light. After learning Holy Water could heal wounds without leaving scars, the manager changed the promotional plan and sent for the Church of Love and Beauty’s help.

• A high-ranking priest was shocked to learn that the factory planned to sell Holy Water rather than distribute it all for free.
• The factory manager explained that sales would support production and distribution, while believers could still receive free Holy Water at churches.
• A technician argued that buying and using Holy Water could lead people to revere and believe in the God of Light.
• The factory manager learned that Holy Water healed external wounds without leaving scars and regretted not expanding production sooner.
• The factory manager ordered fifty thousand bottles sent to the Church of Love and Beauty and said he would contact its bishop.

The Church of the Light God and the Church of Love and Beauty partnered to promote holy water as a scar-removal treatment, and the druids worried that they were already falling behind. The chapter ended with a human druid demanding that the Elf name which medicine they should develop first.

• The factory manager proposed pairing holy water with a medicine that damaged scarred skin so the holy water could heal it without leaving scars.
• Audrey ordered the Church of Love and Beauty to receive holy water, find people with visible scars, and document their treatment for the Magic Net.
• Audrey told Newsbird Megan about the opportunity, and Megan eagerly recognized the holy water’s potential to remove scars.
• Audrey and Megan contacted the Church of the Light God and finalized a promotional plan.
• The druids learned that the holy water was already being mass-produced, and a human druid pressed the Elf to choose their first flagship medicine.

The Nature God’s revelation inspired druids to mass-produce a widely useful potion, while churches across the continent began establishing factories after seeing the success of Light Holy Water. Roger explained to the Magic Goddess that church-led industrialization would persuade kingdoms to embrace factories, leaving the Magitech Industrialization plan poised to spread.

• The Nature God revealed a simple, widely useful Druid Potion to druids, who agreed to focus on producing it in quantity.
• Churches began developing products and factories after seeing how the Church of the Light God had expanded its influence with Light Holy Water.
• Roger watched factories spring up and told the Magic Goddess he had expected churches to obstruct industrialization.
• Roger explained that church factories would demonstrate industry’s benefits to kingdoms, even though some people would suffer losses.
• The Magic Goddess understood Roger’s reasoning as he predicted factories would spread widely within a year.

Viscount Rost’s preparations and the churches’ success accelerated industrial reform, while Dragon Island’s lenders used the boom to move toward credit currency and gather precious metals. By the time the first Ultra-High-Speed Rail Transit System was completed, its route had attracted nine thousand large factories, and Viscount Rost was traveling to the Golden City.

• Viscount Rost reflected that earlier groundwork, economic pressure, and the churches’ example had driven territories to establish factories, then ordered production at full capacity and warned factory heads to plan for future surplus workers and equipment.
• Nidhogg and the White Dragon saw loan applications from churches, lords, and merchants as a way to circulate Dragon-issued credit currency and continue moving gold and silver to Dragon Island.
• Lords along the Ultra-High-Speed Rail Transit System route connected roads, factories, and stations as industrial development spread.
• Viscount Rost discovered that the completed railway route had nine thousand large factories, along with countless smaller and auxiliary factories, and worried whether their output could be sold.
• Viscount Rost traveled to the Golden City while occupied with his many responsibilities.

Viscount Rost arrived in the Golden City for the inauguration of a continent-spanning ultra-high-speed railway built in just half a year with the help of mages and other supernatural beings. As the gathered leaders considered expanding the rail network, Emmett learned that paid laborers could make his factory far more productive than slaves.

• Viscount Rost arrived in the Golden City, where continent-wide leaders had gathered to witness the railway’s completion.
• The assembled figures prepared to ride the train from the continent’s southernmost tip to its northernmost tip and judge its performance.
• People at the station discussed the railway’s rapid construction, the use of mages, and the profits available through industrial reform.
• Emmett was shocked when another factory owner said his factory produced 8,000 garments a day compared with Emmett’s 3,000.
• The other owner explained that paid laborers working for piece rates outperformed slaves, and Emmett calculated that a slave’s cost could instead pay for enough labor to produce roughly 250,000 garments.

Emmett learned that paid workers could greatly outperform slaves and began considering selling his slaves to expand his factory. A Technology God Church cleric then discussed business opportunities created by the new rail line, and Viscount Rost arrived as the opening ceremony was about to begin.

• The cleric told Emmett that ordinary workers paid low wages and piece rates had produced three times as many clothes as an equal number of slaves.
• Emmett considered hiring laborers instead of keeping slaves, noting that he could adjust staffing with demand and pay wages monthly.
• The cleric, an undercover Technology God Church agent, discussed ways to promote advanced management practices among the gathered figures.
• Emmett and the cleric explored rail-related businesses, including transporting specialty fruit and selling off-season produce or livestock.
• Viscount Rost entered the venue, drawing everyone's attention as the opening ceremony neared.

Viscount Rost celebrated the new ultra-high-speed rail system connecting the continent’s southernmost point to Watcher's Wall. A Magic Net update introduced ticketing, a developer platform, and a function repository, leaving the crowd stunned by the new ability to create, remove, and download functions.

• Viscount Rost announced that the rail transit system from the continent’s southernmost point to Watcher's Wall was complete after six months of work.
• Viscount Rost described the system’s future and its operating rules in a speech at Golden City’s train station.
• A Magic Net update added the Ticketing Function, Developer Hall Function, and Function Repository Function.
• The crowd reacted with confusion and silence as they realized Magic Net users could now develop functions and choose which ones to keep.
• Viscount Rost invited everyone to open their Magic Nets, and they stared in surprise at the update notice and its many new functions.

Viscount Rost explained how the Developer Hall let people create Magic Net functions and earn money, then demonstrated the Ticketing Function at the Ultra-High-Speed Rail Transit System’s opening ceremony. The guests boarded the train to experience the service, and Rost showed them the spacious, rune-equipped business-class carriage, whose tickets cost three to five times more than ordinary seats.

• A noble asked Viscount Rost what the Developer Hall and Function Vault did, and Rost explained function development, paid services, and advertising.
• Rost described how the Function Vault displayed created functions, then introduced his Ticketing Function for the rail system’s opening ceremony.
• Rost showed the guests how the Ticketing Function handled purchases, schedules, seat details, and travel orders, while they discussed its benefits for passengers and freight businesses.
• Rost instructed the guests to follow their orders to the train, and the important figures boarded and found their assigned seats.
• Rost showed the guests Carriage No. 1’s business-class seats, which reclined and offered massage functions, and noted that tickets cost three to five times as much as ordinary seats.

Viscount Rost described the business-class carriage as a place where influential passengers could meet and discuss cooperation, and he considered suggestions for luxury and entertainment services. The Ultra-High-Speed Rail Train then began its journey, impressing its passengers with its speed, comfort, and punctual schedule, while Magic Net users turned their attention to two new functions.

• Viscount Rost explained how business-class passengers could meet potential partners and discuss cooperation.
• A noble suggested an entertainment carriage, and Viscount Rost said luxury trains and services could be considered once capacity increased.
• The Ultra-High-Speed Rail Train set off, and passengers marveled at its speed and smooth ride.
• The train reached Epic City after only eight minutes, stopped on schedule, and departed again three minutes later.
• Passengers praised the train’s precise timetable and ability to travel through tunnels, over bridges, and across harsh terrain.
• Passengers shared their amazement on the Magic Net, where users had shifted their attention to two new functions.

The Magic Net’s newly public development tools inspired Master Karl to plan an Invention Generator, while Audrey recognized an opportunity for the Church of Love and Beauty but could not decide what to create. She sought advice from Megan and learned that Megan was organizing a team to develop a news function despite the Magic Net already having one.

• Magic Net users reacted with surprise and excitement to the new function-development feature and discussed the possibilities it offered.
• Master Karl read the developer instructions and drafted a proposal for an Invention Generator that could generate, evaluate, and discuss invention ideas.
• Audrey considered how the Church of Love and Beauty could use the opportunity to complete its Magic Net presence, but could not settle on a function.
• Audrey went to find Megan for advice and discovered that Megan was organizing people to build a news function.
• Audrey questioned why Megan would make another news function, and Megan replied that it was fundamentally different from the existing one.

Newsbird Megan explained her plan to replace Magic Net’s declining news feature with personalized Headlines, while gods grew eager to develop features that could earn them faith. Gardening God wondered whether a tool for generating home designs could attract enough prayers.

• Newsbird Megan told Audrey she wanted to build Headlines, which would recommend news and advertisements based on each user's interests.
• Audrey agreed she would likely open personalized articles, and Newsbird Megan said she had developers learning the documentation.
• Gods learned that Technology God had opened feature development to everyone and discussed creating useful features to gain faith.
• Gardening God doubted whether a feature that generated home designs could attract enough users and prayers.

The Gardening God launched the Gardening Generator, while the first Ultra-High-Speed Rail Train arrived in Wolf General's territory and showed nobles how quickly travel and trade could change. Viscount Rost faced calls to issue more bonds and build several rail routes at once.

• The Gardening God launched a feature that generated home renovation plans for Magic Net users who entered their details and prayed.
• The first Ultra-High-Speed Rail Train arrived in Wolf General's territory with nobles and other important figures aboard.
• Nobles discussed the region's limited development and learned how Wolf General and Viscount Rost had supported its residents and engineers.
• Emmett told the nobles that new employment systems and the rail network offered businesses greater output and access to wider markets.
• A noble asked Viscount Rost how much the rail system had cost and urged him to accelerate construction by building multiple routes simultaneously.

Viscount Rost faced strong pressure from nobles to issue a second round of bonds and expand the Ultra-High-Speed Rail Transit System. A powerful mage family offered thousands of mages and a billion gold coins, leaving Rost more confident about the second phase while mindful of limited professionals.

• Viscount Rost announced that he had planned to wait a month before issuing the next bonds, but the gathered nobles demanded that he expand the railway project immediately.
• Viscount Rost said he would consider their requests and finalize the second-phase construction plan as soon as possible.
• A representative of a powerful family offered more than 3,000 mages and over 12,000 Mage Apprentices to help build the railway so they could gain experience.
• Viscount Rost agreed to accept the family’s mages, explained the rules for building and operating connected rail lines, and offered technical support.
• The family representative pledged one billion gold coins toward the bonds and urged Viscount Rost to make the second-phase project more ambitious.
• Viscount Rost received more visitors and grew confident that the second phase could expand, though he remained cautious about the shortage of professionals.

The Gardening Generator drew widespread attention after nobles and ordinary Magic Net users used it to create garden designs, and the new feature made the gods envy the Gardening God’s success. The Wisdom God began searching for an idea of His own while the Hunting God quickly saw ways to gain faith from the changes.

• Nobles prayed to the Gardening God for estate designs, then shared the results and praised the generator’s convenient revisions.
• People with small homes, including residents of New-Style Housing in mining areas, used the feature and began imagining gardens of their own.
• Magic Net users discussed how the Gardening Generator showed the potential of the newly opened development capabilities.
• Gods at the banquet in the Divine Kingdom of Music City envied the Gardening God’s apparent gain in faith.
• The Wisdom God asked his Divine Spirits to devise a suitable feature, and one suggested selling complete solutions to complex problems such as managing a city-state.
• The Hunting God recognized a series of opportunities to earn faith from the new developments.

Hunting God laid out plans for several Magic Net functions focused on hunting, including a beast encyclopedia, a map, a guild bounty board, and simulated hunting. He left the Divine Spirits responsible for developing the ideas, emphasizing that simulated hunting could attract especially widespread faith.

• Hunting God gathered the Divine Spirits and tasked them with developing Magic Net functions, starting with an illustrated encyclopedia that could identify beasts and provide detailed information.
• A Divine Spirit suggested letting users photograph animals to look them up, and Hunting God approved the addition.
• Hunting God proposed a separate map of caves and forests that could direct users to the beast encyclopedia, explaining that separate functions could encourage more prayers.
• Hunting God outlined a hunting-guild function for orders, uploaded information, bounties, and communication among hunters.
• Hunting God described simulated hunting, where users could control a character in virtual environments and practice hunting, and urged the Divine Spirits to develop it.

After Hunting God’s Simulated Hunting feature inspired Roger to plan more Magic Net games, Wool Ryan proposed a virtual ranch game to the Shepherd Pope. The Pope let him pursue it, but Wool Ryan still needed funds to hire developers.

• Roger told the Magic Goddess that he wanted to develop casual and competitive games for the Magic Net.
• Users discussed Simulated Hunting, and some began planning games of their own.
• Wool Ryan asked the Shepherd Pope to let him recruit people to develop a virtual ranch game.
• Wool Ryan described animals, harvests, shop items, and friends who could steal from one another’s ranches.
• The Shepherd Pope told Wool Ryan to proceed, and Wool Ryan asked whether they should sell bonds to fund the project.

The Magic Net update boosted activity among the gods, while the first Rail Transit system faced rapidly rising demand. Viscount Rost ordered more trains and factory output, and approved refrigerated freight cars as the company prepared to expand its services.

• The Magic Net update multiplied its uses, and the first Rail Transit system began carrying goods across the continent from Golden City's station.
• The head of the Rail Transit General Company told Viscount Rost that freight orders were booked fifteen days ahead and that staff faced attempted bribes.
• Viscount Rost ordered three nearly finished trains onto the line, directed the factory to increase production at least threefold, and assigned the company head to investigate corruption.
• The company head proposed refrigerated cars to transport southern fruit and other temperature-sensitive goods, and Viscount Rost approved arranging them.

As industrialization transformed the continent, William asked Viscount Rost to fund the expansion of his Magic Net food-delivery service. North of Watcher's Wall, the White Walkers surged toward the Technology God Church's positions, signaling that the final battle had begun.

• The Ultra-High-Speed Rail network, factories, and transport businesses expanded as the continent rapidly industrialized.
• William presented Viscount Rost with his food-delivery service, which had completed one hundred thousand orders in a day, and explained his plans to expand it.
• William asked Viscount Rost for funding to bring the service to major cities before competitors copied it.
• Countless White Walkers surged toward the Technology God Church's positions north of Watcher's Wall.

The Technology God Church fought off repeated White Walker assaults until a flight tech battle priest discovered that the enemy had gathered for a final offensive and located the White Walker King. After the priest marked the King’s position for a heavy strike, Wolf General called Viscount Rost, who had just invested in William’s company.

• The Technology God Church’s battle priests used artillery, powered armor, and heavy incineration towers to destroy a massive White Walker assault, then prepared for another wave.
• A flight tech battle priest reported that few White Walkers remained in the rear and said the enemy appeared to have launched its final offensive.
• The priest found the White Walker King, whose ice magic damaged his Dragon Knight Type-1 Aircraft, and dropped a Hellfire incendiary bomb before withdrawing.
• The Technology God Church bombarded the King’s location with a heavy barrage of shells.
• Viscount Rost finished investing one million Dragon Gold Coins for ten percent of William’s shares, then received a call from Wolf General.