Chapter 286: Chapter 286: Creative Burst

Bonnie had a lot of friends.

High and mid-level people from the elven kingdoms. Upper-level folks from the Highland Kingdom and some elves who just wandered around. Lots of magicians from the Gray Fort Empire too. Her Feed post quickly grabbed a bunch of people’s attention.

Including the apprentice of Andrew, legendary magician of the Gray Fort Empire.

Andrew was a traditional magician who firmly believed in the traditional path, but he never constrained his apprentices. Every apprentice should walk their own path—he was pretty open-minded about that.

One of them was Bonnie’s former colleague.

Explosion guy, Holly Morris.

She was a magician who specialized in using various explosive magic or alchemical products. Even though she was only a high-ranking magician, if it came down to a fight, she could potentially take down a weaker legendary magician.

She joined the Empire and agreed to participate in various experiments and develop new products mainly to pursue art—the art of explosion. Spending the Empire’s money to do her own explosions? Perfect.

The sudden commotion from the lab just now had drawn everyone’s attention to the Magic Net.

Every Magic Net update represented major changes. Not to mention the distant past—the last time the Magic Net updated with the Courses feature, it directly broke tons of monopolies, truly giving magicians without backgrounds a way to learn, and at a relatively affordable price.

Sure, the effects weren’t super obvious yet, but everyone knew that in just a few years, the number of magicians at every level would massively increase. No question about it.

The methods and channels for becoming a magician that magic families, magic factions, and nobles used to control would now tilt toward commoners and lower-level magicians.

Actually, a lot of lower-level magic families and factions were pretty happy about this situation too, since their knowledge systems weren’t exactly comprehensive.

Bottom line, no matter what, the world had changed dramatically. Now that the Magic Net was updating again, how could they not want to pay attention?

Feed?!

Pages?!

The appearance of two new terms always meant more new terms to come.

Everyone realized this was a big deal. In fact, after reading the descriptions, most people confirmed their suspicions. They didn’t really understand what these features were for. Even if they understood, they might not get how to use them.

This was a common situation.

Explosion guy Holly Morris was in the same boat. After reading through it, she opened Feed without fully understanding.

The moment she entered, she saw the message Bonnie had posted.

"Already made it to Roster territory? You guys moved fast!"

Holly glanced at the text and casually clicked to comment. "Looks like your trip went super smoothly if you’re already there."

After replying, she looked back at the images.

She wanted to see what kind of scene could make Bonnie, an elf, react like that. She was actually calling for all intelligent races to follow Roster territory’s lead.

Thing is, while Bonnie wasn’t exactly a conservative elf, most elves were pretty traditional. Nobody understood elves better than Bonnie. What did she see that made her react this way?

A strange building?

So many of these buildings!

The workers all seemed happy. Way different expressions from the workers back home.

Free schools and libraries?

Their territorial management was actually maintained by different administrators handling different affairs, with no overlap between them? Wouldn’t that cause problems?

Whoa—this is the magic-powered vehicle Roster territory’s been developing? They actually succeeded? That’s kind of terrifying!

The more Holly looked, the more shocked she got. Originally focused on the new Feed feature, she was genuinely blown away by these images.

The situation in Roster territory seemed beyond imagination.

At the same time, comments from their mutual friends started appearing.

"Oh my God!"

"Who knew Roster territory had developed to this level!"

"Can we actually catch up to this?"

"This is way too crazy, right?"

"The magic-powered vehicle is actually finished already. That speed is pretty scary."

"I feel like Roster territory and I aren’t even in the same era. Do they think we’re just a bunch of stubborn old people? Or maybe they straight-up see us as primitives!"

"I believe it won’t take long before we can be like Roster territory and enter a completely new era. Isn’t that what our work is for right now?"

In a corner of another plaza in Roster called "Magic Power Square," Bonnie sat on a bench, reading through Feed with interest.

Sure, her former colleagues from the Gray Fort Empire were getting a bit worked up, but that fired-up look—that was the vibe of people who’d been humbled and were ready to fight back.

As for her friends back in her homeland... how to put it? They were still the same as always. They didn’t seem too concerned about the changes in Roster territory. But their concern for her personally still made Bonnie pretty happy.

Especially how some people praised her for venturing this far north—that really made her day.

She seemed to finally understand what Feed was all about.

The people interacting with her felt the same way.

Not far from her, in a small building, Swindler Megan—now News Bird Megan—immediately focused her attention on "Pages."

As the person in charge of the biggest media outlet on the Magic Net, she keenly noticed the advantages of "Pages."

1).You could send out one message a day to everyone who followed you.

2).When people received the message, it wouldn’t make a sound like private chats or group chats, but there’d be a little red dot notification, which was way more eye-catching than Magic Net videos or Magic Net news.

3).Pages had some features other places didn’t have, and users could easily check past articles and information.

"Every Magic Net user checks their Magic Net when they open it to see if they got any messages from anyone. So they’d definitely see messages published by Pages. Even though there’s only one notification per day, the attention would definitely be higher than other places."

News Bird Megan muttered, "We could totally put each day’s biggest news and the rest of the news list on there. With this model, we could massively increase user engagement and stickiness."

"As for getting users to follow the Page, we just drive traffic from other places first. We have some business in various features... If it’s hard for us, it won’t be easy for others either."

Her thinking was super clear and smooth. She quickly analyzed the pros and cons.