God of Internet

Chapter 99: Potential...

"He really handled those demons with such ease..." A teacher said in shock as he stared at the big screen showing the battle between Adrian and the demons.

"Ease? I estimate that he must have used between 20 and 40 million Divine Power Points in that battle alone. If it had been any other god, they wouldn't have had nearly as much Divine Power to spend on the battle." Another teacher said, shaking his head.

Although many were True Gods, there were some Unique Gods among the teachers who looked at Adrian's way of spending Divine Power with a little envy.

Although their power and the amount of Divine Power they had was much greater than Adrian's, the time it took them to accumulate it was also much longer than Adrian's.

Some of these Teachers had a total of just under half a million followers, even adding up all the worlds they had access to.

This meant that they would need one to two years of accumulating Divine Power, without spending anything in that time, just to be able to accumulate the 20 to 40 million that they imagined Adrian had spent on this battle.

One to two years of the current amount of believers they had, because when they started, the amount of believers they had accumulated was only a few hundred or a few thousand believers who were gradually accumulating.

Of course, these were only the weakest teachers in the group, some teachers had thousands of followers since they awakened their divinity, whether they were followers who came from their family worlds or who they won in the divine school test, like Adrian.

The difference is that these teachers didn't take centuries to reach the level of One God or True God, these teachers reached that rank in a few decades.

Those who didn't suffer any setbacks continued to grow over the next few centuries and are now in high positions such as Headmaster of the School, other gods weren't so lucky and lost a large part of the believers they had won over, becoming trapped in lower levels of power and having to win new believers through other worlds.

The problem is that the higher a god's power level, the more Divine Power they need to expend just to stay alive and immortal.

While an embryonic god needs a few tens of Divine Power points per month to survive, elemental gods need several thousand, unique gods need tens of thousands, and so the cost only increases with each rank the god surpasses.

That's why it was shocking to many teachers when Adrian spent tens of millions of Divine Power Points fighting a demon less than a month after gaining his first follower.

By this time, everyone knew that Adrian's potential was something that hadn't been seen in thousands of years.

Our job now will be to nurture and feed that potential so that it doesn't stagnate, or worse, do something stupid and start to regress... Headmistress Aubrie began to think after watching Adrian's struggle.

As the student who came first in her Divine School test, just as Adrian was on his way to becoming first, she knew that more important than having a large number of followers was knowing how to handle the Divine power that large number of followers would generate for him.

Knowledge of war, politics, the management of followers, city planning, and many other subjects that the Divine School didn't deal with, was considered the most valuable knowledge for any god.

The kind of knowledge that would allow a god with 10 million Divine Power Points to wage war against a god with 50 million Divine Power Points and win.

Unlike the wars in this test, where all the students were complete novices in most of these matters, the next small worlds Adrian would come into contact with would have gods with hundreds or even thousands of years of experience, gods who could, without lifting a finger, completely eradicate his influence from that world and ensure that his religion would never spread there again.

And it was in these moments that the mentality of young gods like Adrian was tested to the limit.

To leave a place, as he told the demon before he killed him, he was the most powerful god in this world', to enter small worlds where he would be no more powerful than a mortal living there.

When things began to go wrong for someone with such a high opinion of himself, this god with so much potential would begin to fall, and the potential he once showed would now be of no use.

Looking at Abraham, the other headmaster present in the room, Aubrie noticed that he too was as thoughtful as she was, probably considering the best course of action for nurturing a talent like Adrian.

With the various sectors the Army had, as long as we sent his CV, practically everyone would want to welcome this young god with open arms.

What do you think we should do with him, Aubrie? Abraham asked in a serious, calm voice.

Looking at her colleague, Aubrie frowned even more. 'Honestly, considering the raw talent and potential he shows, transferring him to an extremely safe sector would be the most logical option, as he would have time to grow, he wouldn't be exposed to the risks of being a god in the outside world, and in a few hundred years his divine power would be greater than both of ours...'

Listening to her explanation, Abraham nodded. I've thought about it too, but I think that you, like me, are not too keen on this more logical decision, are you?

Aubrie nodded. "If that choice were made, young Innovashine would be nothing more than a flower in a greenhouse. He might even become a Sovereign God in a few hundred years, but what use would that be if he had no experience in the field? It would be like giving overwhelming power to a young baby; he would hardly be able to reach his full potential."

At her explanation, Abraham nodded and sighed. "But at the same time, putting someone with such great potential into a more dangerous sector would mean that this young person would possibly die and never come close to becoming a Sovereign God..."

Aubrie agreed.

This was a decision they had to make, something that could either change the course of the battle of the Gods against the Demons for the good, or keep the battle going as it was, something not at all pleasant for the Gods...

- Adrian's POV -

As soon as the battle was over, the first thing the soldiers did was to open their [War Store] and spend the many Internet Coins they had accumulated during the battle.

Surprisingly, the ones with the most Internet Coins were the Weapon Masters and Master Mages.

Because the Wise Mages and Warlords were in charge of commanding and organising the army, they killed fewer demons directly than the warriors and mages below them, even though they were stronger.

To show that the God of the Internet was grateful for their contribution, I gave them a bonus of Internet Coins based on a percentage of how many demons their platoons killed.

As soon as the announcement was made, even the wise mages and warlords, who usually try to keep a high level of composure, couldn't keep it up for long, and started laughing and joking with their friends about how many Internet Coins they had received.

Seeing that my Divine Power was dwindling even more with so many soldiers redeeming blessings, I had to remove some blessings from the [War Store] with a warning that they would be available the next day, limiting the number of blessings that could be redeemed until the end of the day.

It was better to limit the number of blessings that could be sold than to let them spend their Internet Coins and not be able to deliver those blessings.

When the message came out of nowhere, some of the soldiers were shocked and a little disappointed, but knowing that it would be available the next day meant that the disappointment didn't last too long.

The army's next tasks over the next few days were to search the capital of Galvaris for any possible survivors, and then to spread out across Galvaris and Zephyros to explain what had happened in the kingdom, to show that everything was now safe, and finally to recruit these survivors to become believers in the God of the Internet.

To help them spread the word even more effectively, by the end of the first day I had finished editing the video of the battle and turned it into a very interesting and exciting promotional video.

To do this, I put together scenes from when the news of the demons first reached Arcantor, the five kingdoms gathering an army of 60,000 soldiers to fight the demons, the various battles the army faced, the rewards the soldiers redeemed on the Internet for being part of the army, and the climax, the final battle.

When the video was finally finished and my believers were able to see it for the first time, their reaction was priceless...