God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 357: This New-Style Drama Is Actually Interesting

Chapter 357: This New-Style Drama Is Actually Interesting

The great playwright Louis Auguste’s filming plan went super smoothly.

He got tons of support in Roster Territory.

The reason was simple—he was adapting to the new era, working hard to connect with magic-tech industrialization. Compared to traditional theater, Viscount Roster much preferred his concept of new-style drama... though as for the actual results, they’d naturally have to wait until he finished filming to find out.

Actually, Viscount Roster got the sample footage way earlier than he expected.

When he saw the video was one hour and twenty minutes long, Viscount Roster was obviously taken aback, but he still found time to click on it while lying in bed that evening.

The first thing that caught his eye was a territory that looked really poor—just like Roster Territory from a year ago.

Whether it was the environment, the buildings, or the people walking around, everything was the same.

Everything was messy and chaotic.

It instantly sent Viscount Roster down memory lane.

For this new-style drama with no castle, no knights, no church, no clerics, that little bit of goodwill in Viscount Roster’s heart started slowly growing, especially when he thought about the play’s title.

The camera kept moving, and one commoner after another appeared in the video. Some were hawking their wares loudly, some were struggling to haul stuff around, kids were playing by the roadside—everything was just like the territory used to be.

Soon, the main character of this drama appeared.

Turns out, all of this was what the protagonist was seeing.

The protagonist was just an ordinary blacksmith’s apprentice.

In this era, that was unbelievable.

Because in past dramas, the main characters were always nobles, royalty, church members, knights. Even characters like magicians were super rare, because only those kinds of roles fit the aesthetic and values of the people watching theater.

But this time, it was different.

Viscount Roster seriously watched the entire video, a broad smile spreading across his face.

Honestly, this video was really simple.

The story, that is.

The whole video just told the story of a few ordinary young people from Roster Territory and how their lives changed during the magic-tech industrial revolution.

The first protagonist was an ordinary blacksmith’s apprentice who worked hard every day, forging iron by the blazing furnace. Later, through night school, he improved his abilities and became the factory manager of a certain Magic Conductor machinery plant.

The second protagonist was a farmer who’d been tricked by a con artist claiming to have connections with some church. His whole family went all-in sending him to study with the church, but in the end he couldn’t become a cleric and was drowning in debt. Through the knowledge he’d learned over the years and his constant drive to learn, working while studying hard in his spare time, he eventually became one of the members of Roster Territory’s research department.

The third protagonist was even a street punk...

The entire video didn’t have a single bit of the plot you’d see in traditional drama, not a shred of preaching or allegory, just working hard to tell one story after another.

Stories that made commoners look at them and feel like, "Hey, this is just like so-and-so who lives near me," and then after working hard, they became really impressive people.

"If I were to name this drama, I’d rather call it ’Dreams of the New Era,’ or ’Every Ordinary Person Is Extraordinary.’"

After watching it, Viscount Roster quickly opened a private chat window and sent a message to Auguste: "The overall story is very simple and easy to understand. That’s good, perfect for spreading on the Magic Net and for people to get."

"You also did a pretty great job describing how people are changing in the new era. When are you uploading this to Magic Net videos? I’ll help promote it for you. As for how many people will actually like it, that’ll depend on your luck."

After sending the video to Viscount Roster, Auguste had been anxious the whole time. If he couldn’t even get past Viscount Roster’s approval, he wouldn’t even have the courage to upload it to the Magic Net.

Waiting all this time without getting a response from Viscount Roster, he was about to start freaking out.

But thank god, he finally got a response. He quickly thanked Viscount Roster profusely and said he wanted to upload it right away.

"Go ahead." Viscount Roster said with a smile. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

He paused for a moment, as if remembering something, then continued typing: "If your video gets over 10 million views and 100,000 people like it, I’ll have people produce 10,000 of the iconic props that appear in the film, and you can sell them directly in your storefront."

"Consider it my way of supporting you young people’s careers!"

Honestly, Viscount Roster knew this story was too simple. He knew that Auguste actually had the ability to create more twisty, complex, or otherwise more interesting stories, but those weren’t suitable for the first new-style drama to spread on the Magic Net.

Because the first one absolutely had to be for the masses.

Something the vast majority of people could accept.

Through all the recent operations, Magic Net users had increased by nearly 15 million, and the total Magic Net users were approaching 20 million.

Of those, at least 14 million were ordinary freemen.

If they could understand it, that would be the biggest success.

If you added some complicated twists and turns, or threw in some other stuff, maybe not everyone would get it.

The story would also become disconnected from their lives, and they might not want to keep watching.

With the development of magic-tech, these Magic Net users could more or less judge some future trends through the information on the Magic Net. They knew life was going to get better and better.

Through this new-style drama made up of simple stories, they’d increasingly feel that maybe, in this new era, they’d be like these people—just as successful, and they’d become one of the ’protagonists’ of the new era.

A story that could inspire more people to have ’dreams,’ no matter how simple, was a good story, an easy-to-spread story.

Especially that ending—that was the part Viscount Roster was most satisfied with.

Though there were no actual images, through subtitles, it described the vision that followers of the God of Technology saw on the day the God of Technology achieved godhood.

As a fanatic of the God of Technology, as someone who’d seen that scene, he firmly believed that day would definitely come.

Actually, even now, Auguste hadn’t thought about how to make money from this new-style drama. His family’s traditional theater made all its money from ticket sales and donations from nobles, but what about new-style drama?

He couldn’t just open a livestream after it finished playing and wait for people to come throw gifts at him, could he?

But Viscount Roster’s words instantly made him realize how this new-style drama could actually be profitable.

Make some of the iconic props from the drama—surely, people who really liked the drama wouldn’t be stingy with their wallets!