Chapter 267: Chapter 267: Dropping Some Freebies!

Over the next few days, Grand Magician Drinkwater streamed on time every single day, dropping an incredibly high-level spell each time—the kind even legendary magicians would crave, the kind that made people feel like they were definitely getting a steal just by watching.

Under this kind of temptation, his livestream peaked at over four million viewers, with no fewer than three million people watching every day. Sure, Magic Net user growth wasn’t exactly slow, but compared to the growth rate of his livestream viewers, it was nothing.

Right now, Magic Net had only just hit about seven million users.

That meant over half the users would watch his stream whenever they had time. Many people stopped doing anything else entirely—as soon as he went live, they’d rush over immediately. He’d become the fastest-growing person on the entire Magic Net.

Of course, this also had something to do with the fact that most top "influencers" streamed at night while he streamed in the morning. If there was more competition, who knows how things would actually turn out...

On this particular day, after teaching a spell for the first time, he suddenly changed the subject and said to his livestream audience, "Lately, while I’ve been teaching you all magic through the Magic Net, I’ve noticed that a lot of people in our livestream don’t have solid foundational knowledge. Some of you don’t even know the basics. I don’t know if it’s your teachers’ fault or what, but this obviously isn’t good for the development of magic."

He paused briefly, waiting for the livestream audience to process this. Then Grand Magician Drinkwater continued, "So, to solve this problem, whenever I’ve had time recently, I’ve been recording some foundational magical knowledge courses. I’m planning to package them up now, and you can purchase them directly from my storefront to study."

"I won’t say my knowledge is perfect—after all, even the Goddess of Magic’s Fireball left me in awe. But as a legendary-level magician, I think my foundation is pretty solid."

"You can improve yourselves by studying the first volume in my storefront, ’Becoming a Legendary Magician Starting from Basic Magic’. Of course, this volume mainly covers basic magic and low-level magic, along with various magic-related knowledge."

"In the future, I’ll continue releasing teaching videos for intermediate, advanced, legendary, and forbidden levels. You can purchase them based on your needs."

"Alright, enough talk. If you want to build a good foundation, you can go grab some and study on your own. If you don’t understand something, you can also message me privately. Now, let’s get back to the spell we were just discussing."

After casually inserting that ad, he refocused on the earlier lesson. But the livestream audience was anything but calm right now.

Magicians were already a rare species. Not many people in this world could become magicians. Even on the Magic Net, with the appearance of second-gen Magic Net rings, a massive number of non-magician users had naturally emerged.

Compared to what he was explaining now—extremely profound, super high-difficulty magic—this portion of users obviously cared much more about basic magic and related knowledge.

Never mind non-magicians—even lower-level magicians were really tempted. What a legendary magician considered "basic" might not be basic at all for them!

Plus, Grand Magician Drinkwater was just repeating magic they’d already written down before. That meant the people who couldn’t understand it lost interest, and quite a few immediately headed to the storefront.

Sure enough, there was already one product in his storefront: Becoming a Legendary Magician Starting from Basic Magic. The description detailed exactly what kind of information this video series contained.

"Oh my god! Grand Magician Drinkwater really lives up to his name!"

"This is amazing. I feel like if I can get this, I’ll definitely become an official magician soon."

"Hahaha, this is way too cheap, right? It only costs 10 gold coins! Just 10 gold coins to get guidance from a legendary magician, and if you have questions, you can even ask him! This is literally money falling from the sky!"

"Whatever, I’m buying it first to show respect. Let me see what this is all about."

"Forget everything else—just the magic I’ve gotten for free from the streamer recently isn’t something 10 gold coins could cover. Not even 100, 1,000, or 10,000 gold coins could necessarily get it! I’m spending these 10 gold coins! Even if I don’t think about it, I’m in."

"Perfect timing—my kid just reached the right age. I can let him experience this."

While these lower-tier magicians and even non-supernatural folks started celebrating, some legendary-level powerhouses and members of various magical organizations were frowning deeply.

Regularly teaching some powerful spells in his livestream at set times was one thing. They craved that knowledge too, most people couldn’t understand it anyway, and it barely affected them—it might even stimulate some people to come study at their magical organizations.

But now?

Now he was selling courses starting from the absolute basics.

So much knowledge, and he was only charging a measly 10 gold coins?!

Was a legendary Grand Magician really this short on cash?

They had absolutely no idea what kind of people were actually on the Magic Net.

Right now, with the Magic Net rings spreading, the main user base on the Magic Net consisted of people who had no magic but wanted to become magicians—people who’d reached the point of desperation. Faced with knowledge from a legendary magician, how could they possibly let it go?

Especially now, seeing how convenient it was for other magicians while they still had to do this and that—the feeling in their hearts was truly unpleasant.

Without a doubt, this would only intensify this situation.

Forget 10 gold coins—even if it cost more, many people would order without hesitation.

In the core magic tower of Black Bone Forest:

"Are you kidding me? Has Grand Magician Drinkwater lost his mind? So much knowledge and he’s only charging a measly 10 gold coins! 10 gold coins—you can’t even learn one spell with that! What the hell is he trying to do?"

"If he has time to make money 10 gold coins at a time, why doesn’t he go hunt some magical creatures or do some work to earn money?! With his legendary-level strength, wouldn’t he easily make way more just doing that?"

"If he does this, how are we supposed to recruit new people in the future? Are we supposed to lower our prices too? He doesn’t want to get by anymore, and he wants to drag us down with him!"

"But it’s probably not a big deal. Magic Net users are limited after all. And even if it is, how many people would be willing to spend that much money anyway? In the end, won’t it just be merchants and nobles?"

While they were all talking over each other, suddenly a hoarse voice spoke up: "I think you’re all going to be disappointed. It’s only been a few minutes, and over 50,000 people have already bought his course. And there’s no sign of it slowing down at all."