Xi Wei had transmigrated.
Unlike many of his fellow transmigrators who had to face the wind wolves and goblins in the forest, he had directly become a god.
Still, Xi Wei didn't think that he was that lucky. In fact, he would rather swap places with his fellow transmigrators.
At the very least, his transmigrator brethren still had a body whether in body or soul, but he was a ball of light!
Not only that, his divinity as the God of Games was already teetering on the brink of collapse, and he might not even be able to maintain a ball of light after some time.
Xi Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he looked through the records of the divinity with what little divine energy he had left.
There were many deities in this fantasy world, and almost all of them had existed for a long time, with only the God of Games being the newbie of newbies.
In fact, the reason for the divinity's birth was very strange. There was once a kingdom called Tierra in the mortal realm (Prime Material Plane), and its eleventh monarch, Yakaran the Eleventh, was a tyrannical and muddle-headed ruler who was addicted to games such as chess, cards, polo, and cuju. The monarch had never liked any gods since young, and was essentially a non-believer.
However, in this world that was filled with gods, non-believers themselves were treasonous existences. Even the king would be criticized, and some ambitious people who coveted the throne would even use this as an excuse to attack and question the legitimacy of the throne.
Yakaran the Eleventh, who wanted to avoid that but didn't want to bow his head to any religion, finally came up with a solution. He declared himself a believer of the God of Games, and by promising benefits to nobles and forcing the populace to carry out their beliefs, he managed to draw the shallow believers of other churches to his side. In the end, he actually managed to build a church of the God of Games.
The church took root in the Tierra Kingdom after its founding, growing steadily by absorbing new believers until more than half of the nation's citizens became believers.
The faith of so many believers had forcibly created a new deity that did not exist before — the God of Games!
However, the game itself was addictive to a certain degree. After most citizens became addicted to games (especially gambling) and stopped working, the once prosperous Tierra rapidly declined. Before Yakaran the Eleventh could pass the throne to his son, the kingdom was divided and devoured by several smaller nations that had been eyeing Tierra's lands for a long time.
After personally witnessing Tierra's rise and fall, almost every country around it strictly banned the existence of the Church of Games, forbidding their citizens from worshipping the God of Games.
In the blink of an eye, the once flourishing Church of Games had crumbled and crumbled, utterly crumbling.
On the other hand, the God of Games who was a newbie deity had run into such trouble before his divinity stabilized. His not-so-clear self-awareness was promptly taken over by a soul from Earth …
"So now I have to deal with this kind of crap?"
Xi Wei sighed, feeling a headache coming on — although he didn't have a head in his divine form.
"The Divine Spark still hasn't stabilized, and the faith from the mortal world has become incomparably thin. If this goes on, it won't be good."
That being said, Xi Wei wasn't in a hurry to do anything. Instead, he tried his best to sort out the current situation.
First, he came up with a unit of measurement for Faith Energy and set the amount of Faith Energy he had left at 10 points.
The reason he didn't set it at one point was because he realized that he actually had quite a lot of divine energy left. If he converted it all into energy and threw it into the mortal world, he might be able to wipe out an army of ten thousand, or even have the power of a nuclear bomb.
Still, he would need at least a hundred points of divine energy to stabilize his divinity.
Still, there were probably only a few devout gamblers who still worshipped him, and the rate at which they provided him with divine energy was unflatteringly slow. In a few days, they might even run off to the Church of the Lady of Good Fortune, the oldest deity.
"This can't go on …"
Xi Wei carefully checked his current abilities.
Gods usually had many unusual abilities, but the three most basic elements were 'divine grace', 'divine might', and 'divinity'.
To put it simply, divine grace was to communicate with believers in the mortal world, leaving behind divine decrees, divine items, or granting certain believers power. Moreover, clerics could borrow the power of a deity to cast divine spells, which was also a form of divine grace.
Divine might was the power of a deity, a power that humans couldn't trespass or tread upon. Divine retribution was usually divine might.
On the other hand, divinity was the foundation of a deity's existence, an authority comparable to the Laws of Nature. For example, the God of Harvest could ignore the seasons and cause crops to sprout, completely controlling their growth. He could even summon clouds and rain to a certain extent, and as long as their divinity was involved, a deity could single-handedly interfere with the operation of the world!
Still, the divinity of many deities covered each other. For example, there were three deities who wielded the authority of 'light': Ampolio, the God of Sun, Lyant, the God of Light, and Qiukov, the Lighthunter, as well as a bunch of nameless lesser deities.
Xi Wei's divinity as the God of Games was very vague as well. Everything related to games, including the insubstantial luck, seemed to be within the scope of his authority.
It might seem like an exaggeration, but if one were to really look at it, the amount of authority he could control was probably not even comparable to that of a third-rate God.
For example, beast-fighting was counted as a game, which was why Xi Wei could use the authority of the God of Beasts to control beasts and magical creatures to a certain extent. However, if the real God of Beasts could use 90% of his authority, Xi Wei would not even be able to use 1% …
He dabbled in everything but was not proficient in any of them. There was little wonder why the believers of the God of Games would abandon him so easily. After all, if they wanted blessings from the God of Games, they could get them from other deities, and they might even be more powerful than the God of Games.
As a gambler, wanting to win a bet with luck?
You could worship the Lady of Good Fortune.
As a gladiator, wanting a sturdier physique?
You could worship the God of War.
As a rider, wanting to connect with his mount in spirit?
You could worship Beifeng.
That was why he needed a bicycle …
"Hmm. Now that I think about it, it's not that useless."
If it were a native deity of this world, they would most likely close their eyes and wait to fall in such a situation.
But Xi Wei was different. As an ordinary otaku from Earth, the word 'game' to him was not as simple as' fight the landlord 'or' dogs biting each other 'in the arena' in the eyes of the people of this world.
It carried the spirit of a generation and was forged from scratch with the advent of the age of the internet. Worshipped by countless people, it was the crystallization of the wisdom of the Ninth Art.
As the first step in conquering this otherworld on behalf of Earth, Xi Wei decided …