Chapter 1: Newly Transmigrated God (2/2)

“I can’t let it go on like this…”

Xi Wei carefully checked the abilities he currently had.

Deities often had a variety of different abilities, but at the very core, each deity was composed of three basic traits: Divine Grace, Divine Fury, and Divine Order.

To put it simply, Divine Grace was when a deity communicates with their believers in the mortal realm, leaving behind prophecies and sacred items, or imbuing their believers with strength and power. Priests and clergy for the church could also call upon the deity’s power to perform spells and divine feats.

Divine Fury was a deity’s power and rage—a threshold that mortals could not encroach, or even think of tainting. Divine punishment was an extension of this trait.

Divine Order was the basis of a deity’s divinity—a power so great that it was on the same level as the laws of nature itself. For example, a God of Harvest could ignore the seasons and allow crops to sprout and grow, and to control harvests and even control the weather to a certain extent, as long as it is part of their sphere of influence, deities could single-handedly affect the natural laws of the world!

That being said, many deities had overlapping spheres of influence. As an example, three high-ranked deities: God of the Sun Emporio, God of Light Lyante, and Daychaser Yukov, and a whole bunch of lower-tiered deities have influence over the concept of light.

As the God of Games, Xi Wei’s Divine Order was very ambiguous, as he had influence over everything that had to do with games, even the concept of luck and fortune.

While that looks and sounds pretty amazing, if he were to compare the influence he had over these concepts, he would probably do even worse than a third-grade deity.

To put it in another way, Xi Wei could extend his influence to a certain extent as a God of Beasts to control wild animals and even magical beings as animal hunting and beast fighting are considered games. However, if an actual deity of beasts had 90% influence over beasts, Xi Wei’s influence might not even be 1%…

The jack of all trades, but master of none… No wonder his believers deserted his religion so easily. If they wanted specific blessings and gifts from him, they could just as easily gotten the same blessings from other gods, and maybe even stronger blessings than the ones he could have given.

You’re a gambler and you want a lucky streak?

You can worship Lady Fortuna.

You’re a gladiator and you want a stronger body?

You can worship the God of War.

You’re a rider and you want to develop a stronger relationship with your mount?

You can worship Bei Feng.

So why would you need a bicycle…1

“Hmm… maybe it’s not as worthless as I thought.”

If it were a local deity facing the same mess he was, they’d probably only be able to close their eyes and wait for their inevitable dissipation.

But Xi Wei was different. As your standard stay-at-home otaku from Earth, the concept of ‘games’ to him wasn’t as simple as cards, mahjong, and colosseum fighting1 that they were used to in this world.

Games are a crystallization of the efforts and innovation of generations of people, popularized by the internet and built from ground-up, known as the ninth form of art!

And as a pioneer of Earth into this unfamiliar new world, Xi Wei decided to…

First build a system.