76 - Royalties

=== Adrian's POV ===

Having Zane in the Internet Pantheon was a decision I had to analyze carefully, because unlike Lucy, who always showed a friendly attitude and gave me the confidence I needed to trust her, that hadn't happened with Zane yet.

I accepted him with this trial period at the Pantheon precisely to see if he would fit in well with us, if he would be an easy person to deal with, and if he didn't have other ulterior motives.

By offering him a low percentage, and since he had no other Divine Power account, his growth would be completely under my control, so even if he had other intentions, I could easily deal with him.

The only thing I began to think and consider about the Internet was how I would divide the Divine Power for other gods.

My initial idea was to make it like they had shares in my company, the way companies worked in my previous world, but I realized that if I added too many new gods to the pantheon in the future, the amount of Divine Power that would be left for me after sharing it with everyone might be too little, so I decided to change that.

Instead of offering up to 20% of the total Divine Power earned, I would use a system used by a large corporation in my world.

I would create a quota of the total Divine Power earned through the Internet that would stay with me, and another that would be divided among the other Gods who participated in the Internet.

This quota would have a limit, for example.

An application used the divinity of 10 different gods to work and earned 1 million Divine Power points.

If I offered each of those 10 gods 20% of the app's income, I would owe them more Divine Power than the Internet itself would earn me.

So to balance that out, I realized that this quota was essential.

It would be something like, if the app earned 1 million Divine Power points, 50% would be guaranteed to me and the other 50% would be divided into the quota for the other gods.

Within that quota, each 1% of the Divine Power they had in the contract would serve as a weight for how much they would receive when dividing the 500k Divine Power points among themselves.

So 10 gods entitled to 20% would have 10 equal shares of that 50%, leaving only 5% for each.

If one of those 10 gods was entitled to a smaller share in the contract with me, they would receive a smaller percentage of the 50% quota.

That way, they would only share a fixed portion, and I would still be guaranteed the divine power generated by my own divinity, which was the basis of it.

But to make it even fairer, I would also have to add that how valuable this God's divinity was in this application would also represent some points in how much this God would receive in this God's share of the quota.

Since I was going to sign the contract with Zane now, I had time to define everything in a contract with him so as not to create problems for the future, but for Lucy I would have to talk to her and explain it in more detail to make sure she wouldn't be dissatisfied and feel cheated.

After all, I'd be changing the agreement we had made into something that could hurt her in the future.

The only thing I could think of to deal with this was to increase the weight of the deity's usefulness in the app in the distribution of the quotas, since her deity was extremely useful, practically all the apps would use her deity, and she would get a large portion of that cut, potentially increasing her earnings compared to what she was earning now.

Ah, but I'm just an elemental god who started my god career less than 20 days after entering the divine world.

Yes, it's true, maybe I'm jumping the gun by thinking about it and planning it with such a short career, but considering that it could get me into trouble in the future when I want to accept more gods into my pantheon, I'd better be prepared.

So while I made sure the mortals were okay and dealt with the demons using Lucy's divinity in a powerful way, showing my power to Zane as a sort of warning, I used some of that time to focus my consciousness on improving the contract I was going to offer him, to the point that when I was done dealing with it and helping the mortals who had been affected just as I had helped the mortals in Aetheris, I flew back to Zane and began to show him the contract.

With him joining the Pantheon as a trainee deity, I was able to leave many details vague, giving me the opportunity to correct any details I had forgotten in the future.

Luckily, Zane wasn't worried about that and happily signed the contract, linking our deities and even giving me direct access to his deity.

As I felt the power of Fear enter my body, I felt a shiver run down my spine, and a familiarity with Fear and the ability to control its emotions flow through me.

In a few seconds, I began to see the great possibilities that this deity held, which made me smile and allow Zane access to the deity of creativity as well.

His reaction was quite different from mine, his mind becoming confused as he tried to understand what it felt like.

"It's very strange to control a complete deity... it makes it seem like my Fear domain is really just a small part of something bigger that I didn't even know existed..." Zane said fascinated as he controlled the blue energy of Creativity throughout his body, using a few units of Divine Power to do various things.

"Yes, when I experienced Lucy's divinity, I also realized this difference between our divinities. But that doesn't mean that your Gods don't have potential, so don't be discouraged, you saw how I used sound to deal with those demons, it was done with Lucy's Waves Goddess." I smiled, making his face look shocked.

"Wasn't that your own deity?" He asked.

I shook my head. "No, as you know, my divinity has a cost ten times higher than anyone else's, so it's easier to do damage with Lucy's divinity, so I used my creativity to help her develop her divinity better and find more powerful and useful ways to use her power, just as I intend to do with your divinity."

Hearing this, Zane's eyes widened and he began to smile excitedly. "Really! Thank you, boss!"

"Boss?" I asked confused.

"Yeah, you're like my boss now, right? I work for you, you pay me a salary, and we do our part to develop the Internet so that it gets bigger and bigger." He explained proudly.

Seeing this emo-boy talking to me like that made me feel a little uncomfortable, but I just sighed and let him act that way if it made him happy.

"I still have some work to do in Aetheris, so I'll leave you free to do whatever you want, in the meantime I'll think of some ideas to make apps for you on the Internet to earn Divine Power, but if you have any ideas for that, you can send me a message on [Carrier Pigeon] and I'll listen." I said as I waved at him.

Zane nodded quickly and said goodbye before disappearing.

After taking care of him, I returned to Aetheris, where I had left Lucy to take care of the mortals who had been infected by demons, while I checked the Internet to see if anything bad had happened elsewhere in my domain.

When I confirmed that Eldoria was the only place affected, I nodded and began to plan how I would deal with Lucy regarding the income contract for her.

I didn't want to lose the partnership with her, so I wanted to come up with useful ideas on how I could help her and also not put myself in a bad position for the future growth of the Pantheon...

///NunuNote//

This chapter was tiring to write, so it was a bit shorter, as I had to think about and plan these calculations of the cost of Divine Power and how it would develop the Internet Pantheon.

If you have any ideas to help me, please comment below.