Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 215: Elderly Learning

At the foot of the Holy Mountain, the capital of the Papal States, the Holy City.

The name is very ecclesiastical, it is called the Holy City, but with a definite article in front of it to express special emphasis, just like the official name of the church.

It sounds like "just that holy city" and "just that church" are similar.

In fact, before the belief in the Goddess of Magic became dominant, this city was called Saint Cyr City.

At that time, the continent was full of holy cities, holy this city and holy that city, and all kinds of faiths, big and small, had their own holy cities.

There are even rival sects whose holy places are in the same city, just like rival sports teams in the same city sharing a home stadium.

Later, these cities "voluntarily" changed their names.

Of course, there were also people who did not want to change their names, and they were all regarded as heretics and had the Inquisition knock on the city gates.

The Holy City is not the largest city on the continent, nor is it the city with the largest population and the most developed economy, but it is definitely the city with the most wonders.

It is said that wonders will bring harm to a country, but in history, all the countries that have ranked high like to create wonders, the only difference is who has more and who has less.

The Papal States are particularly enthusiastic about this.

In their opinion, the more difficult a wonder is to build, the more it can demonstrate their devotion to the one true God.

The logic is that although ordinary lives are no different from ants to the great God, He does not care too much about the existence of a specific group of ants.

But if there is a nest of ants like this, and they build their nest several stories high, then anyone who comes here will have to take a closer look.

Now, the greatest wonder in the Papal States is the Holy Magic Cathedral.

This church, which covers an area of ​​70,000 square meters and took nearly three hundred years to build, was constructed with the participation of countless famous artists. It is likely that it will not be surpassed for a long time.

Even with the iteration of productivity, it would be difficult to realize such a grand project.

The technology may allow it, but the cost may not.

The cathedral was built without the use of a single slave.

Because the people of the Papal States believed that this was an extremely sacred and glorious thing, they enthusiastically participated in the project, with those who had money contributing money and those who had strength contributing strength.

It is more convenient than using slaves. Slaves need to be provided with meals, while believers provide their own meals.

At this time, bishops from all regions were recalled and gathered in this sacred church.

Such a scene of all bishops gathering together was only seen when the Pope changed his term.

But today is not the case. Today they are following the oracle of the goddess of magic to get to know and learn about the Internet.

It can be regarded as a great learning experience for the elderly in the church.

Hundreds of bishops, with an average age of less than 60 years old, who are powerful figures in their respective fields, are now all learning how to use the Internet from scratch in a large, temporarily converted classroom.

This study will last for several weeks, and after the bishops have learned the knowledge, they will return to their respective dioceses to continue spreading it.

Fortunately, the network launched by Drogo was a very easy-to-use version from the beginning. If the Shenkui network still required command input to do anything, the old men and women in the classroom would have a hard time learning it in a few weeks.

Unlike the elderly students sitting below the podium, the lecturer on the podium was a young man.

Pastor Andrew.

The person in the entire church who had the closest relationship with the Internet even participated in game development and produced the first game that made Toto, the king of games, lose face, "Journey to the Holy Mountain".

That torturous game of climbing a mountain with no arms or legs tied together.

This game successfully inspired many amateur game makers to produce a large number of shoddy games whose primary goal was to torture players.

Toto is the biggest victim of the Torture Game's bandwagon behavior. Ever since "Play Games with Toto" became a permanent Magic Vision program, she has become the real Red Stone King.

The games to be played in this program are chosen by the audience.

A variety of torture games, a familiar painful experience...

Pastor Andre walked to the pulpit. Facing so many bishops whose status was far higher than his, he was not nervous but rather excited.

It turned out that I was the one who understood the true intentions of the Magic Goddess, and the game was also a channel for spreading my faith.

Now he was going to show his entire understanding of missionary work to these people who had once doubted him.

"Today we are going to talk about a very important part of online entertainment, games."

There was considerable confidence in his tone.

In the field of gaming, he is the absolute authority in the church.

His understanding of the game is ahead of its time, at least he thinks so.

"Some people would say that games are just a simple form of entertainment, and all that matters is that they make the players happy."

Pastor Andrew preached.

The bishops in the audience nodded one after another. After receiving the oracle, they had already experienced the Internet, including the games on it, in advance.

The church is also a place of involution. When the order is given to go to class and learn, no one will foolishly wait until the class actually starts to start learning.

After trying the game, most bishops admit that it is relaxing and addictive, regardless of whether they like it or not.

The addiction won’t be as strong as Alchemist’s evil drugs, but it can easily become a part of a person’s life.

"No!" Pastor Andre denied loudly, "You are wrong. Games are not meant to make players happy. They are more complicated than you understand. Open your mind and tell us what you think is most important for church games."

“Is it immersion?”

A gray-haired old lady said uncertainly.

As she was experiencing the game, she found those parts that required operations difficult to play.

For example, with Mario, she can't even do basic operations like moving in the air after jumping, and can only operate in a single thread. She can only press one button at a time with the handle in her hand.

What? Press forward and jump at the same time? No, it's too complicated and I can't understand it.

The only game she could get into was a game about opening a shop and selling burritos, and all she had to do was wave the motion controller and tap the screen repeatedly.

Take out the ingredients, make the wraps, pack them, hand them to the corresponding customers, collect the money, and occasionally keep an eye on the beggars who eat for free and the thieves who steal the money.

After you earn enough money, you can upgrade the equipment in your store, and there will be fewer and fewer things you need to operate.

To be honest, it was quite boring, but she didn't know why, she was addicted to the cycle of making cakes, making money, and upgrading, pressing the handle until her joints hurt.

After upgrading the store to the point where it could no longer be upgraded, he stopped and then fell into a strange state of loss.

Now that I think about it, I was just immersed in this simple process and couldn't extricate myself.

"No, immersion is important for games, but it's not the most important thing."

Pastor Andrew gave a negative answer.

“Is that a sense of accomplishment?” said another bishop.

His favorite game is Twin Towers Blocks. He watches the oddly shaped bricks being stacked into neat shapes, and then as a long strip is put in, four rows are eliminated and the points increase.

He enjoyed the accumulation of points, and the process of improving a little bit from the previous one, and gradually moving up the rankings, was full of a sense of accomplishment. Although his current ranking on the overall rankings was only outside the top 100,000, he was confident that he could go further.

"A sense of accomplishment. It's somewhat related, but not entirely correct." Pastor Andrew gave some affirmation.

“It’s a positive feedback process of constantly overcoming difficulties.”

This person obviously knows something about games and knows the positive feedback process.

More aggressive than his colleagues.

"It's the stable sense of achievement that you will achieve your goals as long as you work hard." Another person said.

In his opinion, a very important point in the game is that no matter whether it is a task or a challenge, as long as it is completed, there will be rewards, the character will be upgraded, and ultimately lead to success.

But this is impossible in reality. Hard work does not necessarily mean improvement, gain, or a good ending. Reality is too complicated.

"Imagination."

"Defeat your opponent."

“The satisfaction that comes from collecting.”

……

A bunch of answers came out at once.

After the bishops had expressed their opinions, Pastor Andrew announced his answer with a kind smile.

“To achieve a sense of accomplishment and positive feedback, there must be a crucial prerequisite, that is, the difficulty itself before overcoming it.”

Pastor Andrew banged on the pulpit twice.

"In my opinion, the core of the game is difficulty, failure, a painful process, and finally success."

The bishops in the audience looked confused.

Pastor Andre continued, “Drogo Group has already launched too many games of pure joy, and we are introducing the Internet, so we cannot compete with them in their areas of expertise.

"For us, the church as a whole, the games we create should be filled with difficulties and powerful enemies that are difficult to defeat, just like the journey to the Holy Mountain. In the process of repeated failures, we can strengthen our hearts and understand the teachings of the Goddess.

"So brothers and sisters!"

Members of the church call each other brothers and sisters. The focus is not on age, because there are long-lived species. It would be strange to call elves who are hundreds of years old brother or sister based on their age.

The focus of the title is status. As long as the rank difference in the church is not too big, they are all brothers and sisters.

Since Pastor Andrew is now a lecturer, his status is temporarily closer to that of the bishops in the room, so it is okay to call him that.

It must be said that this young pastor does have some talent for public speaking. He is full of emotion, his tone is rich and he is very inspiring.

The words "brothers and sisters" lifted the atmosphere in the church, as if everyone was about to contribute and fight together for a great cause.

Fortunately, the place where he gave his speech was not a beer hall, and the topic of his speech was not that bread was too expensive recently...

"We, the church, the most devout believers of the goddess, need games like the Holy Mountain Journey. Through repeated attacks, we can temper the piety of each believer and allow them to realize His greatness..."

Then, Pastor Andre began to talk about how to make a game that is full of negative feedback during the gameplay and only gives people a moment of pleasure after a long period of time.

The old men and women were writing furiously in their notebooks.

While there are more efficient ways to record magic, there is no need to use this laborious method.

But if they don’t take notes seriously, how will others know that they study hard and listen attentively?

But there is one exception.

The last row of the classroom is usually where all the "heroes" are born.

A young woman in a pure white robe without any decoration on her body frowned and looked at Pastor Andrew who was speaking on the podium with some confusion.

The status of people in the church can usually be easily distinguished by the various accessories they wear.

There are different levels of accessories such as holy rings, blessed earrings, magic pendants, holy necklaces, etc., which can be worn by believers of different levels.

People at the level of bishops usually have seven or eight rings on their hands and several rings around their necks. If they are taken off and weighed, they may weigh four or five kilograms.

And only one level is different.

Holy Son and Holy Daughter.

In other words, the candidate who can communicate directly with the goddess.

Although the functionality of the Holy Son and Holy Daughter has been weakened in recent years because the Goddess has hardly communicated, their status is still transcendent due to traditional habits and the fact that no one knows when the Goddess will want to speak.

They do not carry any ornaments on their bodies to represent their purity.

The rules that the Son of God and the Holy Daughter need to be pure were mostly added by the church itself.

From what Drogo understood, the goddess of magic should not have any concerns about purity.

After all, he was not a very serious god back then, and there are countless gossips and legends about him.

However, these legends can only rot in Drogo's big head. It would be a great treason to mention any of them now. He doesn't want to eat the eleven-ring scroll anymore.

And now, the person who has doubts about Pastor Andre is Saint Astrid.

She always felt that this young pastor would take the church's games in a very strange direction.

This judgment is made purely based on intuition.

Because she doesn't know much about the game.

I just feel that games should be an upgraded version of the games we played when we were kids, playing house with friends. If they are made in a way that causes suffering, will anyone really like it?
Will it affect the goddess' major plan to introduce the Internet?

The networking plan implemented by the church is not just about having everyone use it, but also about producing content in this network system and becoming a force that cannot be underestimated on the Internet.

However, since the sales of Pastor Andre's games were indeed quite astonishing, and he had only lived in the Holy City since birth and had never seen the Saint from the outside world, it was difficult for him to refute it based on his intuition alone.

"Let's go back."

Astrid stood up and prepared to leave the classroom. The advantage of being a saint was that she could leave if she didn't want to attend class. Even the bishop was not allowed to skip class.

The paladin in pure white armor beside her remained silent, followed the saint closely, and left the classroom.

Astrid came to the lounge, which was her favorite place these days because the magic viewer was installed here.

However, it is different from the Magic Vision outside. The program broadcast is delayed. It is the characteristic of the Church Magic Vision Station that all content received from the Drogo Group must be reviewed.

Images that are not conducive to harmony are not allowed to be broadcast.

Astrid sat in her familiar seat, waiting for today's episode of Tom and Jerry, which was a week later than the outside world.

And before the animation, a new advertisement appeared.

“Felyn good song, bring your creation to the biggest stage!”

Looking at the advertisement, the saint blinked her big eyes.

(End of this chapter)