The Everyday Life of a God, Starting as a Shaman

After drinking a bowl of water, he wakes up again, transmigrated to another world and turned into a hedgehog.

Wei Zi'an looks around. There are barren fields, impoverished people, and a woodcutter who rescued him and brought him home, but has caught a plague, developed a fever, and is on the verge of dying.

A plague breaks out from the start. Wei Zi'an drags his round little body along, struggling to save people.

His hedgehog body, born with the ability to identify medicinal herbs, proves a great help. By the time Wei Zi'an comes to his senses, he has been placed in a shrine.

The incense makes him sneeze. The simple, honest villagers immediately put away the incense and slip a red thornfruit into his paws. It's sweet and sour, a favorite of little animals and children.

They call him a shaman, the leader of their tribe.

"Is it possible I'm just a hedgehog?" In his true form, he can't even reach their knees when he jumps. So the little villagers perch him on their heads and say, "Lord Weiwei, now you're really, really tall!"

The hedgehog's pupils tremble with shock. He feels like they're treating him like a child. The somewhat awkward Lord Hedgehog refuses to speak to anyone for several days, but whenever trouble arises, he can't help rushing to the front lines. Wearing an exquisite, palm-sized embroidered cape sewn by his followers, he starts teaching these rather foolish, but at least kindhearted, people how to survive.

Goodness, all he did was teach them how to farm. Even if that led to advances in metallurgy, medicine, and warfare, it had nothing to do with him. He just didn't want these honest, simple people to starve to death, thinks the little hedgehog as he eats a honeydew melon said to have been offered by a neighbor.

They're all good people.

Until one day, the village chief says they plan to take on the Nanling Divine Kingdom, which had previously seized their territory. Wei Zi'an thinks the man's choice of words is a little uncouth, but still looks at them with pride and plans to secretly follow along to back them up.

Huh?

Aren't you supposed to be good people with honest faces?

Why are they so afraid of you?!

Wait, this Divine Kingdom is an actual kingdom of gods!!

Later, Wei Zi'an finally feels like he can't take it anymore:

The Great Sheng dynasty rises. What's a King Weiwei? Why are you doubling up the words? I don't wanna be emperor!

"No, Your Majesty. You are our deity."

"Please become our Divine King."

The former village chief, now the ruler of men, kneels before him on one knee and offers him a map of the realm.

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In an age when deities compete for faith, people are as insignificant as grass. Those driven into the wilderness see a true god for the first time.

They pledge their loyalty to it, wield blades for it, and raise it high above them.

But the hedgehog says: Since you were born human, you deserve to be free.

I've rewritten this blurb eight hundred times, but the core never changes.

Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure. Farming, farming, farming. Divine wars, divine wars, divine wars! The infrastructure methods are not entirely based on reality.

Theme: The strength of little ants is enough to stand on equal footing with the gods on the scales