After the end of the preview, Joshua accelerated the filming process with the Duke of Bones' urging.

  So now, Joshua was sitting in a carriage as "Gaston, the Hunter", and along with Joshua was a group of indignant vilgers.

  Under "Gaston's" i, they held up torches, bows and arroitchforks as they set out to kill the beast who had imprisoned Belle, the beautiful girl in their vilge.

  Most of the vilgers who lived in the mountains were depe on hunting for their livelihood. Perhaps telling them that they would be fag a "demon" was terrifying, but Joshua had cleverly described Zenarth as a "human-shaped beast".

  For the hunters, a was nothing more than prey. As long as the beast was something that could be killed with bows and arrows, it was nothing to be feared.

  So, the vilgers traveled to the most dangerous pce they had ever known with that idea in mind: the Duke of Bones' Forest of Twilight's Shadow.

  No one knew if the vilgers would still be willing to marward with such bravado if they knew tless of evil spirits that could rip their souls into shreds lurked around in the forest.

  Plus, this was the first time the undead lurking in the forest saw so many "living things" entering their vision. The evil spirits that had asted fresh souls for turies were now a little restless.

  However, the majesty of the Duke of Bones permeated across the entire forest, and uhat absolute pressure, the spirits could only look on as the walking sacks of fresh meat passed them. Not a single one of them dared to approach the humans aside from a few banshee camera operators.

  "Is the final ending really a tragedy?"

  Joshua was focused on mobilizing the bao get the best possible footage out of the se. All of a sudden, a window popped up before him.

  It seemed like he o set a few notification reminder codes in front of the chat window... Thankfully, Joshua was not riding a horse, or else the sudden appearance of the window was enough to get Joshua's horse to knoto the person in front of him.

  Joshua looked at the culprit, Ciri who was sitting in another carriage. She was looking at him too.

  "Yes."

  Joshua immediately sent a reply back to Ciri.

  Ciri herself was a white mage. Even though she was still a, when Joshua gave her the chat windram, she quickly mastered it and even started to have fun pying with it.

  Her notion of fun was to send Joshua harassment messages at random.

  "Is there no room for any ges?"

  "It's just a movie."

  Joshua ched the mark on his left hand as he gave the banshees a series of orders, while he tapped his hand rapidly against the air.

  The ability to use his mind for two things at the same time was something Joshua had only retly discovered. Ever since Joshua received the demon prince's memories, he found his thoughts to be much clearer than before, and even writing a series of codes under a sed ossible now.

  "But if it is a tragiding, that means the prind Belle..."

  As Ciri typed that out, her hands suddenly stopped as she realized a horrifying thing.

  She was... sympathizing with the demon. Although he was only a character in the movie, Ciri found herself furious at the unfair treatment of the prince.

  After she watched Joshua's preview sing, Ciri's only wish was for Belle and the prio live happily ever after!

  Ciri had no idea where this surge of emotions came from, though.

  The moment she heard from Joshua that the ending would see the demon prince killed by the vilgers, aside from grief and indignation, Ciri also had the idea of f Joshua to ge the script or even stopping the vilgers herself.

  Ciri's rea was what Joshua had hoped to see. That meant the "Beauty and the Demon" movie was a success.

  Joshua believed that a good romance movie should not only sm the audien the face with love, but it should also make the audience hope for the happiness of the hero and heroine from the bottom of their hearts. The audience should sincerely wish them to live happily ever after.

  Only then would it be a successful portrayal of love in a movie, and "Beauty and the Demon" undoubtedly achieved just that.

  "There aren't all that many happy endings in this world. Don't be bothered about it too much. Oh yeah, I made a new iing little program yesterday."

  "Huh?"

  Seeing the new message popping up in the chat window, Ciri's attention was instantly diverted. The chat window was really something Ciri had never heard of. While Joshua had expihat it e of "magic" that was written using runes, Ciri still could not uand the core principle of it.

  Ciri khat magic like Eagle's Eye or Insight would ge the scope of one's field of vision, but for an iive unication windht before one's vision? Ciri had never heard of it.

  When Ciri asked Joshua how he ted the runes for the chat window, Joshua only answered with, "Uh... very simple. You only need like two to three kilobytes... Ugh, no, if it's using inal runes, about seventy thousand of them."

  At that moment, Ciri could only think that Joshua ulling her leg because even the most destructive strategic-level spells only needed about ten thousand runes. But Joshua's window needed seventy thousand of them? Ciri found it totally unbelievable.

  "Here, catch."

  A phantasmic spinning cube appeared in Joshua's hand, and with a wave of his hand, he threw it to Ciri in the carriage beside him. The cube then successfully entered her body.

  That was the realistic version of a Local Area work data transmission, with its medium being Joshua's spiritual powers. Its range was the radius that Joshua's spiritual powers could cover, perhaps about a hundred meters or two.

  Ciri accepted the runi that Joshua gave her, and soon, another em appeared in her field of vision aside from the chat window.

  "What is this?"

  Ciri looked at the extra window, and there were two long cuboids on each side of it, as well as a tiny cube before one of them.

  "Pong."

  Joshua's response was a hat was destio be included in the annals of video game history.

  The game, Pong was the primogenitor of all video games ba Earth. The in of all video games had been ied by a Uates physicist, William Higinbotham. The moment his mae appeared, it heralded the birth of eai systems that would turn the world upside down.

  Pong was a very simple game, so simple it only sisted of two cuboids as the "bat", and a small cube as the "ball".

  Pong immediately became popur eve first appeared in an age where no one knew what video games even were.

  Joshua remembered that William Higinbotham had brought his mae into a bar before he allowed the people there to py a game using a dime, which came to be known as the arcade in ter geions. The mae was filled to the brim with s within a few days of its unch.

  After Joshua introduced the rules of the game to Ciri, her attention was immediately captured by it. This was the first time the mage was exposed to a video game and the first time she became addicted to it.

  Weebkun