"Tell that News Bird Megan I agree, but the first interview subject should be Me. If this first issue succeeds, I can issue a divine decree to have all Church of Love and Beauty personnel cooperate with this ’periodical.’"
Audrey never imagined she would receive such a reply from the Goddess. Originally, it should have been her... But this seemed good too. With the Goddess leading the way, becoming the second interview subject was also pretty good.
She was a devoted believer and clergy member of the Goddess of Love and Beauty. She didn’t even have a trace of displeasure. She was just thinking that her bestie’s planned entertainment-oriented ’periodical’ was basically already successful.
The normal divine communication process ended. Audrey immediately left the sealed room. Seeing her bestie already waiting at the door, she excitedly told her the answer she received.
"Gasp—" News Bird Megan couldn’t help but gasp. The Goddess of Love and Beauty wanted to personally participate, become the first interview subject and cover figure. Undoubtedly, for their project, this had huge appeal. This would greatly increase the project’s success rate. But at the same time, it also carried certain risks.
If it didn’t meet expectations, this wouldn’t just hit them, but also hit the Goddess of Love and Beauty. Over time, gods could only do the right things, could only do things that fit their authority. This was the inherent perception of all mortal intelligent beings. But if this project went wrong...
Impossible! How could it go wrong? Once the Goddess of Love and Beauty agreed to become the first interview subject, the God of Technology and Goddess of Magic would definitely notice. The Magic Net was their home turf. How could it go wrong?
Thoughts kept flashing through Megan’s mind. Audrey looked a bit confused. "What’s wrong? The Goddess willing to become this project’s first interviewee and become the first cover should be a good thing for you, right?!"
"Of course, it’s a huge blessing." Megan confirmed. "But precisely because it’s such a huge blessing, I’m worried I might not do well enough... Plus, I’m thinking I need to tell the big boss behind me about this... If necessary, he might need to communicate with the God of Technology to ensure our project goes more smoothly."
The big boss behind her. Audrey’s eyes flickered. Sure enough, there was a big boss behind the World Economic News Agency, and this person was Viscount Roster. This suddenly made sense. Apparently, Viscount Roster was that kind of person—as long as you had ability, he’d spare no effort to give sufficient trust and support. "If it can be like that, that would be excellent."
This sudden project made the entire World Economic News Agency even busier. Due to the Goddess of Love and Beauty’s decision, this matter was even more important than the scheduled long news project the news agency was currently preparing.
Gray Fort Empire.
Capital city.
In the palace.
The Gray Fort Emperor listened to his subordinate’s report, but his heart felt very complicated.
Once upon a time, he felt that the Gray Fort Empire’s reforms led to constantly increasing interest conflicts between new and old nobles. The only way to stabilize the country was to go to war with a major power like the Kingdom of Dawn. On one hand, it would consume domestic nobles. On the other hand, it would plunder foreign interests. Ultimately, the Gray Fort Empire would completely reform through this war and enter a renaissance!
Unexpectedly, the Church of War, which he almost regarded as the state religion, suddenly had problems. His once best friend bore the brunt. Large numbers of domestic generals and knights had problems. War and plunder were everywhere. Although the Magic Net’s music function could solve it, due to their insufficient domestic Magic Net coverage with limited range, only today was everything finally resolved.
According to Shadow’s statistics, two-fifths of the Gray Fort Empire’s free citizens died because of this incident, one-third of nobles died or went bankrupt because of this, generals were directly reduced by about eighty percent, and large numbers of knights and knight nobles were currently fleeing to small countries.
The Gray Fort Empire was unprecedentedly weak for hundreds of years.
"But also unprecedentedly clean." The Gray Fort Emperor couldn’t help but murmur softly. He knew that after this round of purging, the originally almost fatal conflict between new and old nobles had been well resolved. The land abandoned by those nobles and knights whose families were destroyed would become the best weapon to ease domestic conflicts.
The only concern was the Kingdom of Dawn taking advantage.
But the current situation seemed unlikely. According to messages sent back by Shadow, the Kingdom of Dawn’s Southern Territory suffered losses even more terrible than theirs. Right now, under Finance Minister Viscount Roster’s leadership, they were doing their best to ensure this year’s planting could proceed smoothly.
"Your Majesty, what did you just say?" The Gray Fort Prime Minister didn’t seem to hear the Gray Fort Emperor’s words clearly and quickly asked.
"Do you think we should also popularize the Magic Power Network and self-charging magic arrays, rather than pursuing path issues with the Kingdom of Dawn?" Having his train of thought interrupted, the Gray Fort Emperor didn’t continue thinking and instead raised another question. "If our country had sufficient Magic Power Network this time, I think we would have suppressed those crazy people very early, right?"
The Gray Fort Prime Minister’s brow couldn’t help but furrow slightly. This was a major problem. He wasn’t a technical person. Whether the Magic Power Network might be controlled by the Kingdom of Dawn, especially that Finance Minister, he didn’t know. Out of security considerations, he definitely wanted to establish their own Magic Power Network. But the problem was, after so long, those guys at the Royal Mage Society made very slow progress. Who knew when they could succeed.
More terrifying was that the Magic Net kept having major updates recently, and it needed Magic Power Network and a Magic Conductor called wireless transmission devices to assist before it could be used normally. If they couldn’t keep up...
The Gray Fort Prime Minister was silent for a moment before respectfully speaking. "Currently, various churches and nobles have successively established self-charging magic arrays and Magic Power Networks on their territories and church lands. Some nobles have even started producing wireless transmission devices. What they’re using are all technical solutions granted by the Kingdom of Dawn... by the God of Technology..."
He didn’t continue. He believed the Gray Fort Emperor should already understand his meaning. The royal family and officials, no matter how much they persisted, nobles and churches in various places had already used them. It could be said they were already full of holes. If the Kingdom of Dawn really could use these Magic Power Networks to do something, the royal family continuing to persist, towns everywhere not using them, probably wouldn’t make any difference. Might as well just use them all.
Worried his words were too ’excessive,’ after pondering slightly, the Gray Fort Prime Minister continued, "Of course, the Royal Mage Society’s research must continue. When they produce results that can replace or even surpass the Kingdom of Dawn’s Magic Power Network, we can switch them out and completely eliminate risks."