CHAPTER 230: CHAPTER 205: MAGIC TOWER! BUILDING THE MAGIC TOWER! (6K) (EXTRA UPDATE 4)

The second page of the newspaper tells the first Chapter of a serialized story about the war in the "Three Kingdoms" realm, and the author is Lin Ke.

The entire second page of the newspaper is devoted to the first Chapter of this novel, "Three Kingdoms Realm." Laplace stood in place, captivated as he read.

"This story truly reflects the talent of the master..." Laplace knew how formidable Lin Ke was; in his memory, there was nothing Lin Ke couldn’t do.

"His Highness Lin Ke said this story will be serialized for a long time, meaning it will be published in every month’s newspaper," explained the shopkeeper beside him.

"Alright."

After finishing, Laplace was still craving for more, but his attention was caught by the fourth page of the newspaper.

It had a sensational and risqué tale about a necromancer, written by someone named "Red," seemingly an independent story.

Next was a piece of current events.

"Viscount Deer and Viscount Reindeer engage in a three-month Pea War! The cause is surprisingly..."

Laplace was naturally drawn in by the headline and continued reading.

Viscount Deer and Viscount Reindeer were in a constant dispute over a patch of wild peas at the border of their territories. Finally, after submitting a war application, they engaged in a three-month war.

Each side selected two thousand peasants from their territories to fight on a mountain, and the side with the most survivors after three months would win.

Reportedly, both viscounts had ordered their people that if they lost, it would tarnish the nobility’s honor, and they would kill all those peasants along with their families.

This is the story behind the headline.

"Foolish and cruel," Laplace commented.

Spending time with Lin Ke and having received education from childhood, he naturally looked down on such decadent and foolish nobility.

After finishing this current event, Laplace’s attention was drawn to the next page.

Page four...

Page five...

Page six...

...

Laplace finished all sixteen pages in an hour, amidst a noisy and chaotic environment!

Even after finishing, he was still savoring it. If not reminded by a servant, he might have gone back to read it all over again.

This thing...

Seems even more interesting than mathematics!

Laplace didn’t know that Lin Ke had a company in his previous life called Dou, which created content that kept people watching videos for hours. It successfully stoked people’s desires subtly.

Desires for knowledge, lust, consumption, and more, utilizing precise big data algorithms to make you laugh, cry, rage, and delight while watching videos.

Lin Ke’s newspaper only arranged various information in an organized manner.

Although not achieving the big data effect of his previous life, it was still very attractive.

That night, Laplace showed the newspaper to his father, the Marquis of Ice.

Thus...

From that moment on, every month, the Marquis of Ice would personally have someone buy the latest newspaper, and it was said among the people of the Ice Castle that their master would even read it while bathing.

Of course, Laplace didn’t know that.

Because once he learned that Lin Ke had built a city in the southern marshes of Azanen, he told the Marquis of Ice he wanted to find Lin Ke, and he got the marquis’s permission.

Thus, he set off.

...

Not just in the Ice Giant City, but in every "paper product" shop throughout the Gula Kingdom, the month-by-month newspaper became available.

Upon its release, the newspaper received great acclaim, with both minor and major nobles, literate commoners, and professionals competing to purchase it.

In this era, the channels for obtaining information were extremely scarce, which caused people to enjoy gatherings and the tales of minstrels.

After all, the new things most people learned in a lifetime came from the poems of minstrels.

The previous bulletin boards were already quite appealing, but they were just small announcements and a few odd stories from other noble territories.

Now, the newspaper offers a large quantity and is very satisfying!

So, the moment it came out, the newspaper sold out quickly, and in some giant cities, there wasn’t enough to go around.

Thankfully, Lady Heshan owned several level-ten Kuku Birds, allowing for rapid message delivery. This enabled the paper mills of Azanen to work overtime to meet the Gula Kingdom’s first month’s demand.

And the feedback from just the first month was enough for the writer "Red," who had allied with Lin Ke, to earn a two-level promotion and to successfully take on a part-time role in Lin Ke’s newly established occupation: "Journalist."

Thus, with the occupation of "Journalist," Lin Ke immediately inspired and trained a batch of "Journalists" to be sent out to gather and record information everywhere.

Then the second month’s newspaper featured more pages and richer content, with the basic newspaper format set at around twenty pages.

Over the third month, fourth month, fifth month...

Nobles had grown accustomed to sending servants early in the month’s beginning to wait at paper product shops, ready to purchase the latest edition of the newspaper.

The flow of information throughout the Gula Kingdom was no longer stagnant but started to flow rapidly.

The people in the far north could learn of interesting events in the southern marshes at Azanen, and those along the eastern coast could know that the Mountain Duke in the west was recruiting guards.

In short, the newspaper quickly caught fire!

Especially after Lin Ke launched special editions like the monthly report, local weekly, and city daily, the reach of newspapers spread everywhere.