Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

"It was little Agni who had come up with this idea," she said with a proud expression on her face.

Vijay was taken aback because, looking at the drawings, he could tell that these drawings were very similar to Japanese manga from his previous life. He would have never expected his son to come up with this thing so soon, and more importantly, how did he get this idea anyway?

But overall, he was very happy because Agni's actions actually confirmed a speculation he had always had. Vijay observed that Agni, on random occasions, would spout out some random words that should not match this era. So out of great curiosity and worry, Vijay tested if Agni was also a time traveler from the future or from a different plane. But fortunately, he was happy to be wrong, since Agni did not react positively to any of his tests.

Agni failing the test was a great happiness to Vijay since he would not have to worry that his little son was some old man from the 21st century. But still, Vijay had many speculations as to why his son would suddenly spout random words from the 21st century. One of his speculations was that, due to Agni being connected to him by blood, the inspiration seeds—which he could only spread to certain people with limited knowledge—had broken through and been inherited by Agni to the fullest.

What this means is that even though Agni will not have any of the modern knowledge Vijay possesses, if he is concentrating on something or working on something he is interested in, inspiration will randomly pop into his mind, which is very likely to be knowledge from the future.

Vijay did not have a chance to verify this conjecture, which had a high probability of being true, but it looks like there is no need to verify it anymore since Agni demonstrated it himself. Or else why would he suddenly create cartoons in the style of manga from the future out of the blue?

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Vijay was in a daze for a while, which made Kavya a little unhappy since she was expecting him to be overjoyed when she mentioned that it was their son who did such an amazing thing. But looking at her husband, who sat still like a wooden man, she couldn't help but get a little annoyed.

"Vijay," she called, her tone a little stern.

Vijay suddenly woke up from his thoughts and looked at Kavya's face, which was red with anger. He immediately realized that he had unknowingly ignored his wife's words.

"Huh, wife, I was just thinking how amazing our son is, but I think it's a pity," Vijay said as he successfully diverted the topic without blushing.

Kavya immediately forgot what she was angry about and was confused. "Why is it a pity?" she asked.

Vijay showed Kavya her own drawings and explained, "According to my opinion, this sort of art should be publicized in a serialized manner, and the best platform for serialization is currently the newspaper. But unfortunately, if we print these images in the newspaper, then the whole cost of the newspaper would have to be increased. "

"And increasing the cost of the newspaper is a huge risk for the *Bharatam Daily,* which is currently using low cost and high sales to make a profit."

Kavya was immediately stumped, but she asked, "Is there no other way?" Her face looked a little downcast since she really wanted this new art form to become popular in the empire.

Vijay was about to shake his head, but suddenly he got an idea. "There is one way," he said with a smile. "Instead of publicizing it through the newspaper, why don't we form a whole new platform in the form of books to publicize *Chitrakatha?* In this way, not only can the price of the books increase, but we can also sell them in a more targeted manner to the main audience, which I suspect are teenagers 15 years and above."

Kavya's eyes immediately lit up. "That's good! When can we start?" she asked as she suddenly felt restless. But Vijay stopped her with a smile on his face.

"Hold on, hold on. There is still a condition for this to work," he said.

"What is it?" Kavya asked, a little impatient.

"Are you going to serialize only one novel in the special publication? Wouldn't it be too wasteful to sell only 10-15 pages per issue? "

"So you should at least find two more new works to serialize so that the book could have at least 50 high-quality pages."

Kavya was immediately stunned; she stood there as if a basin of cold water had been poured on her. If she worked hard, she could serialize both *Chota Bheem* and *Bahubali* at the same time, but where would she find another novel?

She was in a dilemma.

She thought about making her first novel into a *Chitrakatha,* but thinking about its subject, she herself denied the idea, as according to Vijay, these books would be marketed to teenagers around 15 years and above, and she did not want these kids to be exposed to such violent things.

Pacing around the room, she couldn't think of anything else, so she inquired with a hopeful expression on her face, "Can I write a single chapter from the *Bahubali* novel and two chapters from *Chota Bheem's adventures*? Roughly, I can calculate both of these making at least 60 pages. This should be enough, no?"

Vijay thought about it for a while and nodded his head. "It is possible, but it will put a lot of pressure on you. Is it alright?"

Kavya nodded her head like a chicken pecking rice. "Definitely! This style of drawing is very easy. In fact, I have already finished drawing one more chapter of *Bahubali* along with the one you already have in your hand.

"Moreover, *Chota Bheem* is much simpler than *Bahubali,* so I shouldn't have any trouble drawing two chapters per—wait! This special edition you're talking about, is it published daily?" she asked with some hesitation.

Vijay shook his head. "No, it can only be weekly or monthly, whichever you prefer."

Kavya let out a sigh of relief. "If it is weekly, then I will have no trouble since, if I concentrate, I can actually finish the three chapters in total in a single day."

Vijay's eyebrows were raised as he did not expect Kavya to have the talent of a mangaka, but he was very happy nonetheless since he could depend on Kavya in the department of cultural exports.

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A week had passed, and the *Bharatam Daily* newspaper suddenly started publicizing a new publication that was not a newspaper but would have the form factor of a book and include stories in the form of images. It was called *Adventure Tales* magazine.

The publicity in *Bharatam Daily* went on for a whole week, and a lot of anticipation had been built up among the novel readers of the Bharatiya Empire.

Eventually, the first volume of the magazine was officially made public.

*Bharatam Daily* had a lot of influence in the southern part of the Bharatiya Empire and even the central part of the Bharatiya Empire, so despite not actually seeing the product, there was a lot of crowd in front of major bookstores across the empire.

People lined up with excitement on their faces in order to buy the first volume of *Adventure Tales* magazine.

"Wow!"

"Amazing!"

"Oh! These images are so good despite looking so simple. What is happening?"

"So this is what the queen looks like."

*Sob!*

"Shiva Kamini Devi is so pitiful. Even after fighting off those goons, she fell into the river."

The people of the empire, who had never seen a Chitrakatha (Manga) before, were amazed. They intently stared at the *Adventure Tales* magazine, not willing to miss even a single frame. The novel, which was only in their imagination, suddenly came to life, and most people who bought the magazine could now vividly understand the image Her Majesty Kavya had in her mind when writing the novel.

The sales of the magazine in the first week were unexpectedly over 10,000 copies. The parent company Raya Media Corporation had to expand the production throughout the week.

The second issue of *Adventure Tales* magazine was released a week later.

The popularity of the magazine had already accumulated a lot of word-of-mouth reputation and spread outside the circle of novel readers. Surprisingly, the demographic that bought the most magazines were mothers from middle- to high-income families.

"Haha, Bheem is so cute!"

"Chutki is funny!"

The section where Chota Bheem was featured became very popular among the kids.

Although the Chota Bheem novel was very well-liked by a lot of people, it did not really reach the target audience since little kids do not have the patience or interest to read a novel. But cartoon images? That was a whole different story.

Selling at 10 Varaha per issue, *Adventure Tales* magazine sold out 30,000 copies in only two issues, and the demand kept increasing for the issues that had already been publicized. Unexpectedly, due to the demand, there was still one Varaha of profit per sale, bringing the Raya Media Corporation a profit of 30,000 Varaha. This is only the beginning, as scaling up the production would decrease the cost of material acquisition and manufacturing while capitalizing on advertisement spaces would further improve the profitability of *Adventure Tales* magazine.

Meera, the director of Raya Media Corporation, had to immediately place orders for 5 new Raya-type printing presses in order to meet the current and future demands.

Many Bharatiya novelists, who had been influenced by Kavya's Novel, found out that they had a new way of expressing themselves.

Novelists who felt they could turn their novels into a chitrakala started to draw almost immediately, and novelists who were not confident in their drawing skills, sought out artists to collaborate with.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

According to Kavya's order, Meera also contacted many authors to adapt their novels to Chitrakatha's, as well as contacting artists to help Kavya.

Overall, due to Agni inadvertently coming up with a unique art form, a whole industrial chain focused on this art form began to take shape.

Historians in the future hailed the day Emperor Agni Devaraya invented the new art form as Universal Chitrakala Day.

P.S Chitrakatha and Chitrakala both similar meaning