God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 297: What Dreams May Swallow

Chapter 297: What Dreams May Swallow
Having every tree from reality appear in the Spirit Realm world, with root systems intertwining—when illusion had a foundation in reality, when reality had a connection to illusion—this was genuinely a work of genius.
Before this, Ren never imagined such an operation was even possible.
"Maybe leaving through here requires some kind of cost? If it’s just ordinary goods being traded, there’s no need for this. Of course, it’s also possible these boundaries look close but are actually really difficult to cross, making it impossible to trade large quantities of goods."
The Goddess of Magic had some guesses but couldn’t be sure.
She commanded the most complex spatial magic in this world, which almost no mortals possessed. She could go anywhere easily, so she’d never really thought about the boundary between the illusory world and reality...
Ren thought about it briefly. For him, this would definitely be easy. If this Spirit Realm world belonged to him, he could let others accomplish all this pretty easily too. But that was with his authority.
But Lady Dream had already disappeared, maybe even died, so the situation might actually be different.
His thoughts didn’t linger on this point for long. After a brief pause, Ren suddenly said, "I think I just got some inspiration. I know what the next generation of the Magic Net should look like."
"Oh?"
The Goddess of Magic was curious.
"If we compare people to these trees, then couldn’t we create a super huge virtual divine realm and pull everyone in... At that point, we might need to borrow a bit of the technology the Fallen Ones developed, having everyone who enters this virtual divine realm contribute a little brain processing power."
Lady Dream could use Spirit Realm authority to project all the trees from reality into this place. Naturally, he could too—he had several authorities that could navigate the boundary between reality and illusion.
But trees had no thoughts. You could say these were just anchor points, so consumption probably wasn’t that high. But a virtual divine realm network would require massive processing power.
Right now, whether it was the Magic Net, the virtual divine realm, or the Tech Lab, everything relied on Book. But if they pulled in everyone worldwide, even after reforging Book, the intelligence core probably couldn’t keep up.
At that point, there were two paths. Either let Book become a god—his original abilities would be enhanced, and the intelligence core would directly become a godhead related to that authority, capable of holding any amount of information. The other method was what Ren just mentioned.
The Fallen Ones could use human brains to provide processing power, evolving their "paradise." Naturally, the God of Technology could use human brains to provide processing power, letting them play in the virtual divine realm.
Of course, borrowing human brain processing power, he definitely couldn’t be as reckless as the Fallen Ones. At most, he’d just borrow the excess brain processing power from each person entering the virtual divine realm...
In short, in his vision, when humans prepared a mental receiver and a wireless transmission device, with magic power supplied, they could enter another world just like the virtual online games he’d seen in his past life.
When they were forced to wake up the next day, they’d just feel like they’d had a long sleep, the deep sleep kind.
With this thought, Ren was even wondering if this mental receiver should also add detection functions, so when enemies appeared in reality, it could notify people immersed in the virtual divine realm. Otherwise, in this dangerous world, probably not many people would dare try it.
"What are you thinking about? There’s a new sight ahead."
Lost in thought, Ren was suddenly startled awake by the Goddess of Magic’s voice.
At some point, a large mountain had appeared before them.
But this mountain seemed to be made of non-Newtonian fluid, slowly flowing, constantly changing shape, and glowing.
The path extended deep into the mountain range.
The Spirit Realm authority flashed briefly. Ren became even more interested. "This mountain can actually swallow lots of things from reality and make them part of the mountain—unless you’re carrying a special kind of anchor."
"A special anchor? What anchor? Can it also connect to reality? But this thing should at most just swallow some reckless ordinary mortal beings, right? For gods like you, it’s nothing at all. You can protect me well so I won’t face any threat. Honestly, I actually want to try it out, see if it can swallow me—"
"Sure, if you want to try, go ahead. I guarantee I won’t save you."
Ren heard Book, who’d been silent the whole way, frantically lowering his presence, suddenly start talking nonstop. He immediately understood this guy was at least somewhat panicked.
"As your server plus storage, all the Magic Net information is in my intelligence core. I think you definitely wouldn’t just watch me die, right? If something unexpected happened—"
"If something unexpected happened, I can just refine another magical creature. He’d just need to hand over the authority, then also hand over the data backed up in the authority, and there wouldn’t be any problem."
Watching this scene, the Goddess of Magic found it pretty interesting and casually voiced the first thought in her head.
The moment those words came out, she was a bit stunned herself.
Had her human side gotten this strong?
Or could this place, located at the boundary between illusion and reality, actually let gods recover their humanity?
No, it shouldn’t be like that.
If it really had that effect, Lady Dream would’ve been famous long ago. Who knows how many gods would come knocking to ask for help.
But what if Lady Dream just didn’t want to help?
The Goddess of Magic’s thoughts scattered. Ren casually waved his hand, and three distinctive-looking badges appeared.
"The anchor for passing through this mountain is at that single port. Everyone just needs to wear one."
After handing over the anchor badges, Ren directly took the Goddess of Magic’s hand and walked deeper in, leaving behind a resentful-looking giant book obediently following behind.
Gotta say, strolling through such a dreamlike place—all kinds of trees, flowing hills, everywhere filled with fluorescence, the sky a gorgeous purple—was really interesting.
Especially when they followed this path into the hills, the feeling was particularly different.
They could even see the surrounding hills still flowing... But soon they discovered a group of special people.
Each wore black robes, very similar to the black-robed figure who’d fought that legendary earlier. They also controlled some special energy. They just wandered across this flowing mountain, seemingly on patrol.
"Should we grab one and ask what’s going on?"