God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 312: After Holding On

The Hunting Pope was very happy.

Before today, he’d always felt that the church he was in had almost become a church abandoned by the times.

Admittedly, every life in this world had to eat, and humanity was built on agriculture.

But with the appearance of Magic Net, they were shocked to discover that they had almost no voice on Magic Net. It was like this in the first-gen Magic Net era, and the same in the second-gen Magic Net era.

First-gen Magic Net users were all supernatural beings, magicians or clerics. They could barely accept that—many deity churches were like that. Look, even supernatural professions like knights and thieves couldn’t use it, right?

Just playing in their own sandbox!

But as second-gen Magic Net became widespread, the situation changed.

Various supernatural beings and nobles all entered the world of Magic Net.

Those who were timid in reality and would butter them up when seeing them—in the world of Magic Net, most seemed unwilling to mention agriculture. They focused more on magic, supernatural abilities, collecting, gourmet food, hunting, and other entertainment.

The Church of Agriculture still couldn’t find its position.

They’d tried so many methods, all the same.

Later on, Dragon Bank started giving away second-gen Magic Net rings for free. Magic Net user numbers began to explode. Supposedly, there were now over 10 million people. But they still couldn’t precisely filter out believers who belonged to them from these people.

Watching churches far weaker than themselves shine brightly on Magic Net one after another, the Hunting Pope’s eyes turned red with envy.

How many nights had he watched the churches shining brightly on Magic Net, unable to stop himself from muttering: "You guys are naturals at this—you’ve got the talent, I get it. Me? I’ve got no talent for it, but I can’t just walk away from the game. I’ve got to make it work in this business. So I keep trying, but I’m barely scraping by—hell, I’m not even scraping by. I’m stuck here, looking like a fool. Every day I watch you all strutting around on Magic Net, and I’m sitting here grinding my teeth, fists clenched so tight my knuckles turn white. God, I’m jealous!"

The key was, if they couldn’t catch the Magic Net train, they should at least catch the Magic Conductor train, right?!

He actively got close to Roster.

As long as it was a plan from Roster’s side, they’d meet almost all of them unconditionally, as long as it didn’t harm many of their own interests. In fact, many times they were operating at a loss doing some work, hoping to get an opportunity from it.

But what happened?

Opportunities were indeed there.

They just still couldn’t become famous, couldn’t attract believers with this.

It seemed like on Magic Net, the Church of Agriculture was naturally in a very disadvantaged position. Even territories that relied entirely on agriculture didn’t show that much enthusiasm.

And as magic-tech developed, they gradually discovered that many territories were beginning to no longer rely on agriculture.

In the past, even lords who mainly operated mines would spend large amounts of time and energy on planting, because only planting could let them have no worries, and they could also make stable money.

But after magic-tech spread, these territories had new choices. Some territories with relatively barren land had now even directly abandoned agriculture and went all-in on factories.

This situation made the already not-wealthy church go from bad to worse.

He, the Hunting Pope, was so anxious he was about to hang himself. At only 495 years old, the corners of his eyes had actually developed a few crow’s feet from anxiety.

Fortunately, after holding on, he finally saw the light.

Getting along very well with Viscount Roster, crazily throwing money at it, the Southern Agricultural Archbishop of Dawn with the most severe losses of all continental agricultural district archbishops finally put forward constructive suggestions. With the cooperation of the entire Church of Agriculture, the first weather forecast was very successful!

At peak, there were a full 700,000 viewers. Throughout the entire livestream, over 1.8 million people watched. This was already a very high number—only those few original big streamers could achieve it.

And the Hunting Pope was very clear that this was just a beginning.

Just like the News Broadcast from the World Economic News Agency—as the largest news media on Magic Net, their first livestream results weren’t even as good as this. At peak, only 400,000 people watched simultaneously. Normal livestream, only a bit under 1 million people total. But now?

Any day’s News Broadcast could reach 2 million peak viewers. Normal livestream would have at least over 4.5 million people, and there was even vaguely a trend toward stabilizing at 5 million.

Once the weather forecast was verified and more and more people started checking it, the effect... Thinking of this, the Hunting Pope couldn’t help but smile.

Getting attention from so many people, could they still worry about not being able to guide them to the right places, not being able to promote agricultural concepts, not being able to attract agricultural believers?

"What do you guys think—if we have each regional Church of Agriculture register a Page and a video account, updating local weather conditions and agricultural introductions daily... For example, Roster territory, rain tomorrow, and our Church of Agriculture Roster branch would post an article about what weather it is and what to do. Would that be better?"

The Hunting Pope seemed to have opened up his creative channels. His thoughts flowed freely, his imagination quite expansive. He actually started thinking about how to use the popularity of the weather forecast to promote agricultural development.

"That’s good, but what about northern regions? In winter, there’s nothing to do at all. What then?"

His deputy was stunned for a moment, then expressed approval while also raising his own doubts.

"We can promote other things. For example, our Farm Chess. Those who mostly can’t go out will need this kind of entertainment anyway. Having one more type is better. Actually, even if we don’t post, it’s fine. As long as it’s farming season, they just need to check daily."

The Hunting Pope seemed to have been led astray by his deputy and actually started thinking about things that professional self-media creators should consider. But actually?

The Church of Agriculture’s weather forecast or Pages—the core should be placed on tools.

Letting everyone who needed to know the next day’s weather or get agriculture-related suggestions quickly get the answers they wanted.

The weather forecast livestream continued.

The lengthy explanation made the host a bit tired, especially since every time a new location and new weather appeared, her clothes would change and she needed to make corresponding movements. It was very tiring for her.

Finally, after a long twenty minutes, the regional weather forecast ended. The entire continent—anywhere with a Church of Agriculture—had been broadcast.

The host paused briefly, then changed topics. "Today’s weather forecast ends here. Next, Archbishop Nelson Strauss of the Church of Agriculture will explain some agricultural tips for everyone."

"Also, we hope everyone will follow our livestream account and Page. We’ll regularly publish agriculture and weather-related information to safeguard your assets..."

As her words fell, the camera angle switched, and the Archbishop of Agriculture made his dazzling entrance.