Chapter 209: The God of Death Makes a Movie [Two-in-One]
Chapter 209: The God of Death Makes a Movie [Two-in-One]
Underworld·Glazed Mountain·Nether Temple.
After teleporting back to the Underworld from the bedroom of Edwina, the star performer of the Lambert Royal Opera House, the God of Death Sawyer immediately set out to replicate Interconnected Film.
For him, replicating a film function wasn’t difficult.
However, just as he decided to copy Saving Princess Hedi, the God of Death Sawyer suddenly hesitated and stopped.
The Internet God can make movies?
Why can’t I?
The moment this thought crossed his mind, the God of Death’s eyes lit up.
Those lowly commoners were nothing but fickle creatures.
Most of them had already seen Saving Princess Hedi. Even if he replicated it, the impact would likely be minimal. At best, it would only allow the commoners in his preaching zones to watch it openly.
In that case, why bother copying it?
The God of Death’s gaze flickered.
No! I’ll still replicate it, but I must also create something unique—something the Internet God doesn’t have. Only then can I compete with him.
If the Internet God can film the well-known Saving Princess Hedi, why can’t I make The Prince’s Revenge?
Even a brainless, trashy drama like Saving Princess Hedi had caused a sensation across the multiverse, sparking endless discussions and adoration among the commoners!
If I were to make a film, it would undoubtedly surpass Saving Princess Hedi!
At this thought, the God of Death’s breathing grew rapid, his fists clenched, and a large portion of his anger dissipated.
Thousands of years of godhood had exposed him to countless schemes, dynastic collapses, and real-life cases of restoration.
He could easily pluck one such story from his memory—one that would absolutely shock the commoners out of their wits!
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Descending from his divine throne, he dug through his memories, searching for the perfect tale.
Finally, he recalled a particularly striking and brilliant story of dynastic restoration—one that had left even him deeply impressed. Without delay, he teleported away from the Underworld.
He decided to film it all by himself!
Thousands of years of godhood meant he couldn’t claim mastery over all magic, but he was proficient in most spells.
Using illusions to simulate scenes and the soul-recording function to film, creating a virtual drama was no challenge for him!
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While the God of Death was busy filming The Prince’s Revenge, the fact that Saving Princess Hedi had become a phenomenon and swept across the multiverse naturally didn’t escape the notice of the gods of the multiverse.
In this world, three things could never be hidden: love, poverty, and coughing.
If one were to add a fourth, it would undoubtedly be public opinion.
When the gods casually inspected their preaching zones, what did they see?
Saving Princess Hedi!
Everywhere, people were discussing this brainless drama.
Taverns, homes, streets, city gates, neighbors, long-distance travelers… even some of the rare intelligent races were talking about it.
This sight utterly stunned the gods of the multiverse.
Many of them even suspected that the movie might have been imbued with some kind of bewitching power.
For example:
Music Enchantment empowered by the Music Godhood?
As it turned out, they were overthinking it.
Large-scale Music Enchantment would consume far too much Source Essence, far beyond what the fragile souls of commoners could withstand.
Unless the Internet God was willing to expend it himself.
But would the Internet God really do such a thankless and foolish thing?
Most importantly, they found no trace of any mental enchantment at work.
Yet this "low-intelligence drama" in their eyes—somehow became a hit.
"A brainless play can send the commoners into a frenzy. Truly, wild dogs that have never tasted meat will wag their tails at the sight of a bone!"
In the Temple of Wisdom, the Wisdom Goddess was as venomous as ever.
Though her words were sharp, her expression was grim.
Now, forget the Greg Duchy—even her preaching zones in other small and medium domains had almost entirely fallen to the influence of Saving Princess Hedi.
The thing was, her commoners watching the movie were essentially praying to the Internet God, offering up Source Essence.
A two-hour play equaled two hours of prayer.
Heavens above, even her most devout Believers wouldn’t spend two hours a day in prayer!
It was downright infuriating!
Yet there was nothing she could do!
She couldn’t ban it outright.
If she did, the Interconnected Bank branches in her preaching zones would withdraw, and the Interconnected Grand E-commerce would blacklist her, cutting her off completely.
Then, not only would she be unable to purchase goods, but it would also become nearly impossible to sell her territory’s products.
Having already tasted the convenience of e-commerce, the Wisdom Goddess—and indeed, the gods of the multiverse—could no longer do without the Interconnected Grand E-commerce.
In fact, under the expansionist pressure of the God of Death’s Fifth Calamity and the Four Pillar Gods, the gods were startled to realize their growing dependence on the Internet.
They needed firearms, seeds, bicycles, and airships.
They needed the Interconnected Bank to earn Interconnected Coins and exchange them for Source Essence.
They also needed to hire the Fourth Calamity to handle the most dangerous and casualty-prone missions.
In fact, the Fourth Calamity was also the strongest force against the Fifth Calamity.
They knew why the Internet God was helping them.
At its core, the Internet God’s strength still wasn’t enough to oppose the God of Death, let alone the Four Pillar Gods.
So the Internet God supported them to counter the God of Death and the Four Pillar Gods.
Now, though the Internet God was nominally part of the Six Great Righteous Gods, he had quietly become the de facto leader of a third faction among the gods!
Weapons, food, mercenaries—these critical strategic resources were only available through the Internet God, and he was willing to provide them.
The times were changing too fast!
The only comfort for the gods of the multiverse was that the Internet God didn’t seem interested in expansion.
Within the borders of the Keville Empire, he was frantically developing wastelands.
Magic Towers and cities were being built everywhere.
With resources pouring in from across the multiverse, the Keville Divine Kingdom had already expanded to thirty-three cities!
And the pace of expansion showed no signs of slowing.
The mages’ ability to reshape nature was too formidable.
With sufficient resources, they could erect a city from nothing in a single day. The only bottleneck was the construction of Magic Towers.
"But in the end, the Internet God still used a trivial magical image to seize the Source Essence of countless beings across the multiverse."
The Goddess of Pleasure’s expression darkened.
At her words, the Gods of Kaman fell silent.
With their insight, they could tell at a glance that Saving Princess Hedi had cost almost nothing to produce.
In fact, the cost was practically zero.
To amass such terrifying Source Essence at zero cost—how could anyone not be envious?
"Everyone is overthinking this. Even without Interconnected Film, the internet and the Dark Web are still siphoning Source Essence from the commoners. This is a battle between the internet and the Dark Web. The one who should be worried now isn’t us, but the God of Death."
The God of Fear, shrouded in a black robe, reassured his allies from a fresh perspective.
Sure enough, the furrowed brows of the Gods of Kaman relaxed considerably upon hearing this.
Indeed, even without movies, the vast array of content on the internet was more than enough to capture the attention of countless people.
The emergence of movies was merely a response to the Dark Web’s new feature, the [Opera House], which had drawn the commoners’ focus, forcing the internet to follow suit.
So, in theory, the situation hadn’t changed much from before.
The only difference was that the new feature had sparked louder discussions.
If Yu Sheng'an heard this, he’d probably laugh himself to death.
A bunch of country bumpkins—have they ever heard of "user time"?
Before, even though everyone used the internet, the vast majority of illiterate commoners didn’t browse the forum, let alone the Q&A community or the Library… and so on.
They only listened to music, used voice or video calls, occasionally watched incomprehensible public lectures, or turned on the lighting function at night to extend their active hours.
Their average daily internet usage was only about an hour.
The Source Essence naturally generated by their souls wasn’t fully dedicated to the internet.