God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 464: We Have to Make a Choice

"Of course we should participate." Wool Ryan had no hesitation. "How will we know if we don’t try?"

"Besides, in this current era, I think our Church of Shepherding has lots of potential."

"We can not only develop on our own, we can also cooperate with the School of Agriculture, we can cooperate with the School of Business. We can totally create an even more glorious era."

Wool Ryan was very determined.

"But what if nobody..."

"Even if there’s not a single student, we still need to do it. The main thing is being able to cooperate with other churches and schools."

Wool Ryan was very firm. "Besides, how could there possibly be no students? We have so many people in our church. Just send their descendants over. The Wool Guild can pay for it. I think they’d be very willing."

"If that doesn’t work, I’ll go too. Then they’d have no choice but to go."

"You’re that optimistic about the academy?" The Pastoral Pope was somewhat shocked.

Wool Ryan nodded firmly.

Roster territory could now be called the most magical place on the entire continent.

Every few days there’d be a major change. The source of all changes was right there.

Wool Ryan felt that nobody could refuse spending a few years studying there, seeing the cutting edge of the times. Even setting all that aside, even if all that stuff could be thrown away, just seeing those ladies and gentlemen from the Church of Love and Beauty: wouldn’t that attract countless young people?

You had to know, the Church of Love and Beauty had a headquarters in Roster territory. In that headquarters, you could see almost all the beautiful and handsome people you could see online.

For young people, that was also a huge attraction.

However, what really attracted Wool Ryan was opportunity!

In this constantly changing era, opportunities often came from the speed of obtaining information.

Something that looked plain and unremarkable might, in his view, create endless value. And how could it just be a plain and unremarkable thing?

In the past, you could only quietly wait for this thing to spread on the Magic Net.

But with more and more videos, the probability of things spreading like this was getting lower and lower.

Wool Ryan hadn’t thought about it before, but now thinking carefully: if you wanted to understand these things, wouldn’t it be better to just stay in Roster territory?

Especially camping outside laboratories: you’d always see some surprises.

"Actually, besides these reasons, there’s an even more important one: we actually have no choice but to go."

Wool Ryan seemed to suddenly think of something, then added, "Think about it: where will the most talent gather in the future?"

"Of course Roster Academy." The Pastoral Pope had no doubt about this. "But so what if talent gathers? They can’t be used by me."

"How do you know if you don’t try? As long as you pay enough, any talent can be used by me..."

Wool Ryan was saying this when he suddenly fell silent. "Where did you lead me? That’s not what I wanted to say."

"In the future, Roster territory is destined to be the center of everything. Almost all the world’s elite talent will gather there. At the very least, the vast majority of this world’s elite talent will stay there."

"This also means staying there will give us easier access to powerful social circles."

"Another thing is, after the School of Theology is established, missionary models will inevitably be affected."

"The traditional missionary model relies on our clerics going place by place to establish churches, then person by person introducing our faith, ultimately pulling them into our church." 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"But with the development of magic-tech, this model is destined to gradually be eliminated."

"For example, right now many people have already started proselytizing online. That’s also exploring a new model."

"We can actually also do some operations in this area, though our church’s situation is special. Proselytizing through this method might have minimal effect."

"What I’m saying is, Roster territory will become the perfect missionary location."

"Why do you say that?" The Pastoral Pope was hearing all this in a fog, having some trouble understanding.

"That place is the center of the world, the center of an era. We only need to influence one person to influence a whole group of people."

Wool Ryan said, "We cooperate with the School of Agriculture and others to develop things. They popularize them, and our faith will naturally spread along with the cooperatively developed things."

"That can influence another large batch of people."

"Besides that, if merchants trained by the School of Business have early connections with us, everyone’s classmates, cooperation will naturally flow smoothly. For the Wool Guild and Church of Shepherding, that’s naturally also a good thing."

Why was the Church of Shepherding niche?

The reason was simple: areas suitable for sheep in this world were just too few.

People who believed in them should at least be in related industries, right?

Just this alone was enough to prevent them from going to most places.

But after cooperating with the School of Agriculture, borrowing Viscount Roster’s power, could sheep species suitable for other places be spread?

If sheep were raised everywhere, even if only one or two out of ten believed in the Church of Shepherding, that would still be an enormous gain.

The reason the Church of Shepherding could maintain a fairly decent position in this world despite being so small was mainly because they controlled wool.

Using wool to establish the Wool Guild, then through business activities they’d obtained large amounts of funding.

So business was also extremely important to them.

If they could cooperate with more merchants, especially these trained merchants who could adapt to the new era (new-style merchants), that would naturally also be an enormous gain for them.

Hearing his son’s words, the Pastoral Pope quickly understood all the twists and turns. "Right, just for these things we must go to Roster Academy. If there are difficulties, solve them. If there aren’t difficulties that’s even better: work hard to develop."

"Actually there’s one more terrifying reason in all this. Have you thought about it? After people from other churches go to Roster Academy and master tons of resources through all kinds of activities, what will happen?"

Wool Ryan added more fuel to the fire. "Actually from the beginning we had no choice. Churches willing to go will have a chance to seek the future. Unwilling to go: destined to be eliminated."

"Might even be replaced."

This was what he felt was most terrifying about Roster Academy.

These small churches of theirs, stuck in their corners: if they weren’t willing to go, and Viscount Roster just happened to take an interest in their church, what would happen?

If at the academy, Viscount Roster got some people to start interpreting their church’s sacred texts, then taught more people, over time: who exactly would be the orthodox version of their church?