It was the third night after the World Tree took root in Noland.
After Ciri completed the purple-robed exam, she habitually ran to the kitchen of the Hearthstone Tavern to find two servings of dinner and brought them to Josh's study.
Josiah was in a meditative state with his eyes closed. This was a common method for spellcasters to recover their mana and increase their mana storage.
However, Josiah's meditation was different from normal spellcasters. A white cat was snoring on Josiah's head.
Hiri placed the dinner on the table without disturbing Josiah. After about a minute, Josiah slowly opened his eyes.
"Are you messing around with that video website?" Hiri threw a pair of chopsticks from Da Xia to Josiah.
"It's a little more complicated than that."
Josh caught the chopsticks that Ciri tossed over, and fed a piece of fish that he had eaten for dinner to the white cat sitting on his head.
After the World Tree took root in Noland, its consciousness became more like a cat's.
For example, it was interested in fish.
"I'm giving the Mana Net the concept of economy. Simply put, I'm making a program called the Mana Net Savings," Josiah said.
"You're planning to issue currency on the Mana Net?"
Hiri also fed her portion of fish to the white cat and continued to participate in Josiah's discussion.
"I'm just planning to work with the Wise Ones of Noland to combine the Noland National Savings with this program. This program will be the foundation for the other applications of the Mana Net."
"It's not worth it to make all the games in the gaming zone free."
As Josiah's chief game designer, Hiri had worked on a few games. These games were all free to play on the spellcaster forums.
Apart from Minecraft which was still in beta.
"There are also movies and songs, as well as the most important shopping on the Weave. All of these require the support of the financial system. After all, unrewarded labor will cause creators to starve to death sooner or later. When that time comes, not many people will be willing to write novels and songs on the Weave, or create other types of works. This is definitely detrimental to the future of the Weave."
Back on Earth, Josiah hated those pirated games. After all, he was a game creator. The game that had just been released two days ago had a cracked version the next day. This really hurt Josiah's passion for creating.
Of course … this was just Josiah's personal opinion. However, Josiah had seen too many independent game studios go bankrupt due to piracy.
"The Weave Depository is about to be completed. All that's left is to see how we're going to convince those sages tomorrow."
Josiah reached out and scratched the back of the white cat's neck.
After the World Tree took root, not only did the speed of the Weave increase, but also Josiah's programming ability while meditating.
It felt like he had a super considerate programming assistant. As long as Josiah started to build a function, the glyphs would automatically be added.
It was probably the white cat helping him in the dark.
Glyphs were a huge system that came with this world. The glyphs that Josiah used in the Weave were only borrowing a small part of this system.
From what Josiah could see, the World Tree seemed like an artificial intelligence created from glyphs.
"My teacher will probably agree," Hiri said uncertainly.
"Money is just a tool to maintain order in Noland to the sages. They won't reject a tool like this to be upgraded."
Josiah threw the bunch of weird thoughts aside and picked up his chopsticks again.
"Anyway, the most important thing now is to get dinner done."
… …
Ruhrsk Higher Magic Academy, Silent Hall.
Today, the lecture hall was as quiet as its name suggested. It was eerily quiet.
The Prophet pushed open the door of the hall and looked around at the figures sitting inside. Freiter, the owner of the Klia Merchant Group, followed her to visit.
When the middle-aged man saw the figures sitting in the Silent Hall, he couldn't even stand steadily.
After all, any Noland commoner would not be able to remain calm when they saw the four sages of Noland present.
The Prophet was not a commoner of Noland. She had just come to Noland from the Realm of Demons, so she calmly found a seat near the front.
The merchant, Freiter, followed the Prophet all the way and sat beside her.
Under Josiah's push, the Klia Merchant Group participated in the construction of the alchemy workshop in the Realm of Demons. The Prophet was the representative of the Realm of Demons.
When Freiter learned that the representative of the Realm of Demons was a girl who looked only ten years old, he thought that Josiah was playing some strange joke on him.
But when the Prophet quickly analyzed the profit and loss of this merchant group and the best plan to cooperate with the Realm of Demons, Freiter no longer dared to joke about the Prophet's appearance and age.
"Do you know that Mr. Josiah invited us …" Freiter asked the Prophet anxiously.
But before he could finish, the Prophet made a shushing gesture.
Freiter could only look around. Other than the sages in white, blue, and black, the other four sages of Noland were all present.
There were also a few of Freiter's rivals and the people in charge of the Noland National Savings Bank.
With these people gathered together, they could make an important decision like "making Noland move."
Freiter quickly calmed himself down because he saw that Josiah had already appeared at the front of the Silent Hall.
"I'll save the greetings for now. I've invited everyone here to tell you a concept that I've discussed with the people in charge of the merchant groups here in the past."
Josiah went straight to the point and opened the interface of his Weave. Several pictures appeared on it.
Freiter recognized the background of the picture as an alchemy shop under his merchant group.
"I think these few pictures can define the way all intelligent creatures trade." Josiah waved his arm and displayed the pictures on the Weave in order for everyone to see.
There were five of them in total. They recorded a young Spell Caster who had his eye on a raw crystal stone outside an alchemy shop. Then, he walked into the shop to negotiate with the merchant, and paid for the raw crystal stone.
"I'm sure everyone is very familiar with this form of trade. After all, all of you have used it since birth, running to the commercial street of Noland, choosing a shop you like, paying the bill and leaving." Josiah's gaze swept across everyone present.
"Isn't that common sense?" a person in charge of the Noland National Savings Bank asked.
"It is indeed common sense. Common sense that hasn't changed for thousands of years." Josiah placed his hands on the podium and smiled, "But don't you think this method of trade is too complicated?"
Josiah could see the confusion and puzzlement on the faces of those seated. However, the owner of the Klia Merchant Group, Freiter, and the person in charge of the National Savings Bank seemed to have thought of something.
The prophet's expression did not change, but from the way she kept kicking her legs, it was clear that she couldn't wait for Josiah to announce what the 'biscuit' was today.
"Looks like some of you have guessed what I want to say." Josiah pointed at the five pictures behind him. With a wave of his hand, three new pictures appeared. "This is not the entire purchase process. This young spellcaster came from the alchemy workshop across the Cogwheel River. He wants to go to the central commercial street of Noland to buy an raw crystal. He needs to put down his research first, and then spend an hour and a half on a carriage to the central commercial street. Don't you think this is an extreme waste of time?"
Josiah snapped his fingers at this point, and the first three pictures disappeared.
"If we put the information of these products on the Weave or build a shop there, the first three and even the fourth step can be completely skipped."
"How do we do it?"
The person in charge of the Noland National Savings Bank pushed up his glasses. He admitted that the suggestion of the creator of the Weave had piqued his interest.
"This requires a complicated system to support, and some time to explain," Josiah said.
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