God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World

Chapter 524: Transforming the Other World (END)

In the blink of an eye, several years passed.

The Church of Technology used almost the same strategy as they'd used north of the watch wall. In a short time, they completely transformed the World of Pain.

They first established settlements one by one.

These settlements could be centered on mining or agriculture.

As long as they could produce enough, they could support individual settlements.

These settlements gathered normal people from the original World of Pain and supporters from the original world together, and directly began industrialization and large-scale reform of high-yield crops.

The early days weren't without difficulty. Many of the World of Pain's inhabitants had known nothing but suffering for generations. They regarded the newcomers with suspicion, and more than a few settlements had to weather tense standoffs before trust was slowly, painstakingly built. But food had a way of speaking louder than words. When the first harvests came in—golden and impossibly abundant—the walls between the two peoples began to crumble faster than anyone had predicted.

The grains cultivated by the Goddess of Agriculture showed extremely strong survival abilities in this world too. The soil here, long soaked in divine corruption, was paradoxically rich in nutrients. Once purified, it proved even more fertile than much of the original world's farmland. Crops that would take a full season back home ripened weeks earlier here, as if the land itself was desperate to prove it could nurture life rather than destroy it.

In just two years, they'd achieved self-sufficiency.

They could even export back to the original world.

Just this alone eliminated more than half of the divine corruption left by the Mother of Pain. Where hunger had once driven people to desperation—to worship, to beg, to accept any cruelty for a mouthful of bread—full stomachs gave them the strength to look up from the dirt and imagine something better.

For people in this world, wasn't the biggest problem not having enough food? With food, way fewer people would die.

Of course, to get Church of Technology people, or even regular people from the original world, willing to pass through the Tulip Kingdom and come to this world to develop and do business, this world definitely needed to provide more feedback.

Only if everyone could earn a certain amount of wealth would they be enthusiastic enough about doing these things.

What was the biggest advantage at this time?

Of course, mining and manpower.

A world larger than the original world contained countless mines. The people of this world had just escaped their past painful lives. Wages were relatively lower.

Just these things alone were enough to attract a huge batch of merchants. They came in caravans at first, then in organized trade fleets. The bolder ones arrived within the first year. The shrewder ones followed once the first wave sent back tales of copper veins as thick as a man's torso and iron deposits that seemed to stretch on without end. Merchant guilds that had operated for centuries in the original world suddenly found themselves scrambling to establish branch offices in a world they'd once considered a death sentence to enter.

Of course, with the massive output of food and minerals, transportation construction naturally unfolded.

Railways, highways—all became things that had to be built.

The sound of hammers and the hiss of magic-powered welding torches echoed across valleys that had once known only screams. Bridges arched over rivers that had run red in living memory. Tunnels bored through mountains where monsters had denned just years before, the creatures long since driven out or pacified. Every mile of track laid was a stitch binding two worlds closer together.

Countless resources, countless manpower, countless technical personnel, all for endless wealth and returns...

Just like that, the two worlds completely connected as one.

All industries developed incredibly rapidly.

Textile mills sprang up near the cotton fields of the southern plains. Glassworks rose along the sand coasts. Alchemical refineries—redesigned by the Church of Technology to run on systematic, reproducible processes rather than individual magical talent—began producing medicines, dyes, and construction materials at a pace that would have seemed miraculous a decade ago. Universities opened their doors, first in Roster territory, then in a dozen other cities, training a new generation of engineers and researchers who had never known the old world's limitations.

Everything Ren had previously laid out showed unprecedented vitality.

Roster territory!

The first city in this world to begin industrial reform.

It had already developed from a small viscount's territory into the largest city in history.

It had even absorbed the original Dawn Kingdom's capital.

The areas between the two territories had long since been transformed into urban districts and were full of people.

For a city that had completed industrial reform, a city with over 10 million people didn't seem that crowded.

It had a complete public transportation system, magic power transmission system, automatic water supply system, logistics system, and waste disposal system...

If you had to say what was different from Ren's previous life, it was that a perfect magic power transmission system replaced electricity and gas pipelines. Residents could use magic power for all their household appliances and cooking.

Besides that, there didn't seem to be any difference.

Magic Film Theater #1.

That wasn't its original name. But as magic films became more and more popular, to maintain their original competitive edge and show that they were the inventors of magic films, they changed to this name.

At the entrance to Broadcasting Hall #1, Ren held the Goddess of Magic's hand with one hand and hugged a huge bucket of popcorn with the other, saying with a smile, "They actually made a movie about our entire process of promoting magic-tech industrialization. Wonder how much they got right?"

"If you really wanted to know, you would've already seen it, right?" The Goddess of Magic smiled, speaking in a nonchalant tone.

"Haha, we've thrown our divinity to the back of our minds right now. We're using complete humanity to enjoy life in this mortal world. How can we use it carelessly?"

Ren laughed.

After confirming this world's industrialization had fully gotten on track and people could independently develop and research all kinds of technologies based on his foundation, he realized he could retire with honor.

These past few years, they'd traveled everywhere in the mortal world with mortal identities.

Actually, just yesterday evening, they were still watching the sea on Dragon Island.

But after hearing about the movie last night, bright and early this morning, they took a magic-powered plane to Roster territory to watch it!

Without realizing it, Ren's dream seemed to have been achieved long ago.