God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 419: The Churches’ New Options

While the Wool Guild was in the middle of heated discussions, people elsewhere had already caught on.

Roster Territory.

Church of Love and Beauty.

Archbishop Audrey stared blankly at the update announcement on the Magic Net, completely lost in thought.

As the youngest archbishop of the Church of Love and Beauty, her rise to this position had some legendary elements to it.

Originally she was just a minor cleric at a small church in Roster Territory, but because of the Magic Net’s appearance, she made a name for herself online right away.

As a first-generation influencer, she attracted tons of followers and had a huge impact on the Church of Love and Beauty, directly affecting the church’s current organizational structure.

She even got summoned by the Goddess of Love and Beauty herself and became the church’s living saint.

But what really established her position in the Church of Love and Beauty was actually the new headquarters she set up in Roster Territory.

If we’re being honest, the Church of Love and Beauty’s new headquarters was more like an influencer training center and livestreaming base.

Here, all the church’s higher-quality bishops, clerics, and believers gathered together. Aside from necessary prayers each day, they spent almost all their other time shooting videos, livestreaming, or selling products.

But as things developed, Audrey discovered some problems.

Even as an archbishop of the Church of Love and Beauty, finding the right products was incredibly difficult.

Right now, there were tons and tons of workshops and factories across the continent, but they often weren’t clustered together. Maybe this lord built a factory, that lord built a workshop—they’re doing the same thing but are super far apart.

In this situation, even a major church like the Church of Love and Beauty that’s spread across the continent had trouble comparing the products from these two factories.

Just making one comparison could easily take dozens of days. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

For the Magic Net era, this was incredibly slow.

However, that was still a relatively manageable problem.

Besides that, there were tons of other issues.

Like they had no idea what manufacturers were in certain places.

Sometimes even two neighboring territories doing the same thing—their church’s product selection team would have to repeatedly check and run around to confirm things.

Sometimes they even had to use the Quest Board to post bounties just to get relatively stable results and compare products suitable for the Church of Love and Beauty to sell.

You could say it was getting harder and harder for the Church of Love and Beauty to expand their product sales. Luckily they were based in Roster Territory, which had plenty of quality factories, so most of the time they had stable sources—it’s just that the variety was limited.

Of course, the styles of ready-made clothing were also somewhat restricted.

As the archbishop in charge of this business, Audrey had been working hard to solve this problem.

Today, she finally saw hope.

This new Magic Net feature made it easy for her to choose products she felt she could sell.

The first feature let you see what everyone was selling and what was selling well.

If you found a suitable product, you could start from there to find the manufacturer and negotiate cooperation.

Things that sold well wouldn’t mind selling even better. The Church of Love and Beauty’s brand influence was huge, so most people would definitely be willing to work with them, especially for products like ready-made clothing and accessories.

Things that weren’t selling well, if they were suitable, would naturally be even more eager to work with them.

After all, the Church of Love and Beauty’s reputation was pretty impressive. From a certain perspective, the Church of Love and Beauty represented human aesthetics.

What was even more amazing was that the Church of Love and Beauty headquarters here in Roster Territory now had thousands of livestreamers and influencers gathered together. Combined, they had over six billion followers on the Magic Net. Sure, most of these followers overlapped—after all, people who liked watching this stuff couldn’t possibly follow just one person.

But even so, it meant that if the Church of Love and Beauty wanted to, they could quickly push something out and have people watch it billions of times. It was basically brainwashing.

Most manufacturers understood the potential here.

As for the second feature, that was even simpler—you could contact manufacturers directly. For middlemen like them, this was super convenient.

It could even save tons of hassle.

Although she didn’t quite understand the third feature, she didn’t really care. After all, the first two features had huge benefits for them.

After this brainstorming session, Audrey quickly gathered all the headquarters’ top brass together.

"I’m sure everyone’s seen the Magic Net update just now, right?"

Audrey looked around, and after confirming everyone had arrived, she began speaking slowly, "I believe that through these two methods, we can save a ton on product selection team expenses and more conveniently find better products."

"Therefore, I think we need to hire some people to continuously search these two features every day for products suitable for us. After they pass review, we’ll send people to communicate with the manufacturers and ultimately settle on a relatively low price before selling."

"Archbishop, I have a question. What if we find a really suitable product, but they’re already selling it on the Shopping Mall at a super low price with almost no room for price adjustment? What should we do then?"

A bishop thought for quite a while before speaking up to ask.

"Our sales volume is definitely better than regular shops, so I’m sure manufacturers would be willing to give us lower prices. If there really isn’t room for price adjustment, that’s fine too—as long as we’re not selling things at inflated prices."

Audrey said with a smile, "We can’t let our fans think we’re taking advantage of their affection to make money off them, so our prices definitely can’t be way higher than what you can find searching on the Magic Net, but they don’t necessarily have to be lower either."

The other top brass of the Church of Love and Beauty all nodded. It really did seem to work that way.

Because they’d been working with Roster Territory Group Company for so long, they’d fallen into a misconception that the core competitive advantage of livestream selling was having slightly cheaper prices.

But thinking carefully about it now, the real core competitive advantage was their massive traffic. Of course, massive traffic also meant certain risks—like people would probably compare whatever they sold.

So their prices definitely couldn’t be super high, but they didn’t need to be cheap either—just reasonable.

"This aspect isn’t the focus. The focus is still on product selection. What we choose must have a certain aesthetic. We need to select from countless products the ones suitable for the Church of Love and Beauty to sell."