Chapter 272: Chapter 272: The Era of Paid Knowledge?!

However, facts proved the King of Corrosion was overthinking things.

Nine Ring White Tower, Wetland Garden, Blazing Furnace, Storm’s Eye, Flame Secret Society, and many other magical organizations were almost simultaneously doing similar work. Even quite a few magical families and individual magicians were doing the same.

Right now, not a single magician on the entire continent dared underestimate the potential of the Magic Net Video Classroom.

And this was just the magic portion. Special magic classifications like alchemy and druids, special supernatural professions like knights and rogues, various divine theological systems like churches and societies, various craft industry guilds like the Church of Creation Association—almost simultaneously, they all started moving.

City of Epic.

As Magic Net writing became popular, more and more believers of the Church of Writing gathered here.

They no longer needed to go out and promote themselves to rapidly improve their strength. Here, they could find many like-minded friends and chat every day about how to make their works better...

On this day, in the castellan’s manor, some of the top believers gathered together. Each of them couldn’t help speculating about what the castellan was inviting them for. Recently, there’d been many gatherings big and small in the city, but the castellan, this most legendary believer, had never appeared.

Under the believers’ anticipation, the castellan walked in from outside. After some pleasantries and social exchanges, time was pushed forward until the sky had almost turned dark.

Only at this point did the Lord of City of Epic finally speak: "The reason I invited everyone here is because of the appearance of Magic Net Classroom."

The moment his words fell, the banquet hall was already in an uproar.

"My lord? Are you planning to have us sell online courses too? Honestly, our Church of Writing is just too special. We need to increase our fame through writing to improve ourselves. But writing can’t be taught to others—or rather, teaching it to others can’t guarantee they’ll become our believers."

A white-bearded elder spoke first, bluntly.

He had the capital to be blunt.

If some elderly people were here, they’d definitely find they’d seen him before.

He had once been the greatest bard in this world. His footprints appeared in every town within human territory. Any town with over 30 years of history—he’d been to them all... This was a record almost no one could break.

Among this group of believers of the Goddess of Writing, he was basically like a spiritual faith figure.

"The basic techniques of writing can be taught, but getting them to become one of us is naturally very difficult—even impractical."

The Lord of City of Epic didn’t think the elder said anything wrong. He just smiled and said, "But I’m not asking everyone to teach writing fundamentals. What I want is for all of us to brainstorm together and determine a clear standard—a standard for becoming one of us."

As Magic Net writing continued to spread, more and more people were starting to try writing on the Magic Net, including even some legendary magicians. Too many magicians and nobles spent their days doing nothing, especially the older demographic.

Writing, writing memoirs, writing biographies, writing family stories—these became things they really wanted to do.

Anyone who regularly followed Magic Net Books knew this.

But the problem was, while the number of writers had already expanded tenfold or even dozens of times, the number of people like them who’d walked the faith system of the Goddess of Writing, become believers, and mastered divine arts—there were very, very few. After deep reflection, the Lord of City of Epic believed the core problem lay in standards!

When they determined what type of work, reaching what level, would automatically activate divine arts, then their future would arrive.

Recently, the Lord of City of Epic had been constantly thinking about this problem. At the same time, he was also thinking—if they reached a conclusion, how should they announce it? For free? Obviously not.

In this world, no church would freely announce such standards. But they didn’t have a church. They couldn’t very well send people out to proselytize, could they?

The Church of Writing didn’t do that.

What exactly should the standards be? Once the standards were determined, how should they be published?

These two questions had been circling around him.

Now, the appearance of Magic Net Video Classroom let him see a solution. A few gold coins, automatic learning, reasonable and compliant, with wide transmission range! It fit the requirements perfectly.

The only problem left was: what standards exactly would work? This required people like them who’d already succeeded to brainstorm together.

Similar things were also happening in many, many churches.

The Church of Love and Beauty, Church of Agriculture, Church of Nature, Church of Light... From the moment the Magic Net first appeared, many churches had already started preaching and promoting on the Magic Net. But they’d only ever been able to promote around their faith systems. As for power systems, they never mentioned a word.

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to—they were constrained by unspoken rules between churches and didn’t dare!

But if they could charge money, the situation would be different.

After charging money, then teaching power systems—weren’t all the various societies doing that? It’s just that before, it was through churches, and now it would be through classrooms.

With this angle for sophistry, not a single church or society could hold back!

Never mind other things—just take the Church of Light. The first divine art they mastered when they just became clerics, when cast on ordinary people with illness or injury, could greatly alleviate and resolve things. With this kind of power, wouldn’t it attract a lot of people?

In a flash, the three-day deadline had arrived.

The Lord of Black Bone Forest, the King of Corrosion, looked at Magic Net Video Classroom and fell into deep thought.

Over these three days, they’d mobilized everyone and finally produced over 320 courses, mainly detailed classifications for low and mid-levels, such as Low-Level Corrosion Magic Teaching, Low-Level Potion-Making, and so on.

This kind of vertical segmentation targeting different students, and only charging 1 to 3 gold coins based on difficulty—he’d thought this would definitely succeed. Maybe it could even push Black Bone Forest to leap into becoming one of this world’s largest magical organizations. But he never expected that at this scale, they couldn’t even make a splash.

In three days, over 8,000 courses appeared in Magic Net Video Courses, of which over 5,000 were magic-related courses. What did their 320-plus courses even count for among those 5,000-plus?

Trying to funnel people to their own organization was just too hard...

"Has the Church of Hunting lost their minds?!"

The King of Corrosion looked at the Magic Net courses subdivision interface, his mouth twitching like crazy.

Other magical organizations and whatnot all releasing video courses, with incredibly intense competition—none of that made the King of Corrosion too uncomfortable. Not until he saw that the Hunting Pope had also released a course...

’Hoof Care and Trimming for Donkeys’

It was like a joke!

A church’s pope, and one of the top churches at that, releasing a course teaching people to trim donkey hooves—had he gone crazy, or had the entire world gone crazy?

What was most ridiculous was that this course actually had over a hundred people who purchased it!

What kind of people were so bored?!