God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 463: Should We Join?

Roster Academy officially began recruiting students.

It was now the last few days of this year’s Frigid Moon. Viscount Roster decided classes would officially begin in the Month of Revival.

The first recruitment round didn’t have a complicated exam process, just two rounds of interviews.

The first round was an online interview.

Conducted through the private chat video call function, they’d ask some questions to verify applicants.

After passing the online interview, they’d invite people to come to Roster Academy for the second round of interviews. Pass that and you could officially enroll.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused an uproar.

"Viscount Roster’s going big with this one!"

"I originally thought that academy was mainly for training Magic Conductor talent."

"Still underestimated Viscount Roster’s vision. He’s really something."

"He’s even teaching business stuff. My family has been in business for generations. I want to go study too, see what new era business actually looks like."

"Business is at least useful. What the hell is the School of Agriculture? Teaching people how to farm?"

"Don’t underestimate the School of Agriculture. The people they’re recruiting are among the best of all the schools, and they cover lots of majors!"

"Plant protection, plant science and technology, seed science and engineering, tea studies, agricultural druid pharmacy, economic zoology, veterinary medicine, apiculture, equine science, feed engineering, fishery science and technology, aquatic animal medicine... sounds pretty impressive actually."

"Think about all the new grain varieties and livestock breeds rolled out recently. They’ve greatly improved everyone’s survival rate and made food prices way cheaper. I bet this school teaches exactly that stuff."

"According to Viscount Roster, the School of Agriculture will directly affect everyone’s food supply. For people, that’s the most important thing."

"What I still can’t accept is the School of Law. I’ve been to over a dozen territories, and every single one has its own laws. Forget everything else: just talking about taxes, Hogg territory taxes based on windows. Do other places do that? How are you supposed to study this stuff?"

"This School of Magic is kind of interesting though. Actually dividing magicians into combat magicians and production magicians: first time I’ve heard of that classification."

"But you have to admit this classification is interesting, right? Not all magicians are good at combat, and not all magicians are good at production. I’m good at using energy hand. That’s not really suitable for combat."

"But doesn’t this classification kind of limit people’s development? Originally everyone studied with a teacher. Maybe you could lean one way early on, but shouldn’t everyone end up at the same destination?"

"This is just basic training. You think the academy can directly train you to be a legendary magician? Just think of it like the Gray Fort Empire’s combat mage corps."

"What interests me most is still the School of Magic Conductors. Never expected Viscount Roster to divide Magic Conductors into dozens of different majors. That’s something I never would’ve thought of."

"Actually if you think carefully, you’ll realize all kinds of Magic Conductors are incredibly varied. Having lots of categories is normal. We just didn’t expect he’d list out even special components as separate majors to research."

"Magic Conductors probably should be like this. Having one person research and understand a large magic machine is just too hard. But if you divide everyone up, each person responsible for one component, and finally have someone specialized in overall management and assembly, it becomes much simpler."

"..."

Online users reacted strongly to the establishment of Roster Academy.

Right now, you could say the Magic Net had people from most social strata.

Magicians entered the Magic Net early on, followed by nobles and supernatural beings from other fields, then Dragon Bank customers with over three gold coins, then the emerging working class...

For the former, even though they had the master-student model, often these students were just the master’s grunts.

Forget just having students do grunt work: it was common for students to be the teacher’s test subjects.

There were also cases of not teaching more advanced magic.

Without question, Roster Academy directly solved the pain points of most mage apprentices.

For nobles, they had inherited knowledge systems. Compared to these people versus others, they were more eager to obtain knowledge.

Now there was a place that could teach certain knowledge; of course they’d be eager to get it.

Directly sending talented clan members to study and steal techniques was naturally no problem.

The only issue was that others could more easily obtain knowledge too. This made the monopoly class feel a bit uncomfortable, but they also understood one thing: the weak can’t prevail against the strong.

Facing Viscount Roster, they had to grin and bear it.

Especially having just experienced a round of harvesting and consolidation, with many people eager for ultra-high-speed rail stations to appear at their doorsteps.

As for those free citizens who only had three-plus gold coins, and those emerging working class people: how could they even access these things?

Naturally they were desperate with desire.

Especially the emerging working class.

Most of them had originally been farmers, laborers, rats and vermin in the streets and alleys that we didn’t want to deal with, even slaves. In this new era, they’d caught a ride and gained a certain stable source of income.

They all understood the importance of education.

Quite a few of them had already started learning various things through the factories. Naturally they hoped their descendants could learn even more.

They naturally became Roster Academy’s biggest supporters.

You could say Roster Academy hit nearly every group’s pain points, making everyone on the Magic Net extremely eager.

Of course, even though some groups were very eager, they wouldn’t say so. Instead they’d criticize it.

For example, the noble class.

Having more people possess this knowledge posed a certain threat to their status. They’d prefer if they could learn things others couldn’t.

But what could they do about it now? At most they could shoot their mouths off online, then quickly get attacked by the crowd.

Viscount Roster’s grand achievement was complete. He was no longer someone they could influence.

Kingdom of Dawn.

Western territories.

Church of the God of Shepherding.

The Pastoral Pope looked at the Magic Net in front of him with some anxiety. "What do you think: should we move into Roster Academy? Our Church of Shepherding has way too little influence, and... compared to other churches we don’t seem very impressive. What if we move in and nobody applies?"

When it came to accepting new things, the Church of Shepherding had a very open attitude.

After all, they were among the first wave to reap the dividends.

But precisely because of this, on the Magic Net, they appeared even more cautious.

What if they opened a Pastoral Theology major and nobody applied? Wouldn’t that be embarrassing?