God of Internet

Chapter 93: Preparing for the Show

After the enemy army was defeated, I had the griffin fly over the army all the time.

Considering the power level of the demons, it was essential to have the griffin with the power of an embryonic god to protect the soldiers.

Fortunately, with the number of believers I now had, I didn't run out of divine power to keep this griffin running.

Even though my daily expenditure was high, it was still less than the amount of Divine Power I received from the believers' prayers.

The one who was really surprised by the griffin was Zane, who, as soon as he saw the video on the Internet, recognized the power the griffin was using and was shocked that its power could also be used in this way with my divinity.

Since they had access to my divinity just as I had access to theirs, he tried making griffins and crows for fun and loved the results.

This was another advantage for Zane in making the deal with me, since his deity didn't have a way to have a direct attack, with my deity he got it and could protect himself better, even if the cost was higher than just using his own deity.

Sure, he couldn't match the Divine Power cost of the griffin I created, but it was possible to make weaker griffins.

The next few days were spent marching from the site of the current battle to the capital of Galvaris.

Since this small world was much smaller than my previous one, the size of the continent wasn't very large, so the population wasn't very large, and the territories weren't very large either.

This meant that the time it took to march within a kingdom, even on foot, wasn't as long as it would have been in my previous world.

The time it took to march from the border of an enemy kingdom to the capital, on alert while exploring the cities and spreading the Internet among the population, was only a few days.

It took us three days to reach the capital of Galvaris.

The closer we got to the capital of Galvaris, the more demons the army encountered.

Fortunately, none of these demons were at the power level of the embryonic gods, and they were just cannon fodder for the soldiers in my army to fight and get more Internet coins to use in the [War Shop].

The funniest thing was that while soldiers from other armies would probably get scared, nervous, or discouraged when they encountered enemies, my soldiers would be excited to kill the demons and get Internet Coins.

Then, when they saw that the closer they got to the capital, the more demons they encountered, their walking speed unconsciously began to accelerate.

I saw them as RPG players from my previous world, where players just ran from quest to quest looking for the biggest rewards, the biggest monster loot, all to spend on upgrades to become stronger.

Unfortunately, this vision of war as a game was shattered when they reached the capital of Galvaris...

Unlike the capitals of my kingdoms, which were majestic, beautiful, and well-kept, even more so after the books on architecture and urban planning that city managers had at their disposal to improve their cities, the capital of Galvaris was falling apart...

Signs of a great battle were everywhere.

Human bodies decomposing in the open, red-skinned demons roaming the city, houses destroyed, the stories of people like my soldiers erased and destroyed because of these monsters.

This was a great shock of reality for the soldiers, something that took away the excitement of war being a game, but gave them back the purpose that they were at war to save the world.

A war to stop the demons from growing and doing to the capital of their kingdom what had happened to the capital of Galvaris.

Floating above the army with my divine consciousness, I could sense that there were at least four embryonic demons in the capital.

Three of them had the strength between rank 1 and rank 4, while the strongest of them had the strength of a rank 7 embryonic demon...

Considering that they were physically stronger than gods of the same rank, this was a battle that normal gods would have great difficulty with.

My vision of this battle that was about to unfold was not how to win it, but how to win it in a way that would best spread my prestige throughout this small world.

Considering how much of the world I had dominated so far, it was only a matter of time before I dominated the rest of the small world, and this battle could be the key to me dominating the rest of the world by the end of the school test.

Thinking back to how I publicized the iMonsters, I used the same strategy to publicize this battle, the Internet, and my kingdoms to people in other kingdoms.

Even if it offended the gods of those realms, who cares?

With so little time left until the end of the test, there was no harm in just tearing up the decorum with those gods and spreading the Internet to their kingdoms as quickly as possible.

And the best way to do that was to make a great promotional video.

I would have an epic battle, I would let my soldiers upgrade themselves, I would summon iMonsters to fight with them against the demons, I would show their spoils through Internet Coins, their camaraderie, the good we were doing through the Internet, how useful the Internet was for everyone, and I would make a mini-documentary to show all this in a promotional video!

With that decision made, I started recording important details of my soldiers and the capital of Galvaris, while preparing the script for it in my mind.

The most important thing I needed now was Athenos' physical body, which was in the capital of Arcantor.

Since "the God of the Internet" never appeared in person in front of anyone, in order to maintain the mystery and let people keep the divine and mysterious vision of him in their minds, I would continue this way and use Athenos as my persona for the battle.

Then, taking advantage of the fact that the battle hadn't started yet, I put more power into the griffin to protect the soldiers and quickly flew back to Arcantor to bring the body to the battle.

Even though I was flying far away, I could still follow the battle through the soldiers and the cameras I had created to record the promotional video, so I saw that as soon as I left the battlefield, the demons from the capital started coming toward my army.

These demons weren't weak, they were slightly stronger than the strongest demons we encountered on the way to the capital, but nothing that the soldiers couldn't handle.

The problem was that as soon as the first demon left the city, more demons came after it, and the strength of each demon increased.

For the soldiers, this was a great feast of Internet Coins, but for the commanders, they had to stay on their toes to make sure nothing went wrong.