Just an Ordinary Person, Yet All the Geniuses Work for Me

【Revision in progress. See the author’s note at the end for details】【Coming soon: Rehired by the Esper Academy, but Every Great Sage Is One of My Secret Identities. Blurb below.】 Jiang Yu was an evil god. He woke from a long sleep to find a godless world where faith had collapsed. His divinity was shattered, and his divine power lay dormant as still as water. To survive, Jiang Yu had no choice but to start looking for work, rising early and staying up late. 1. On a foggy day, Jiang Yu came across a beggar with a broken leg while hurrying to catch the bus. He casually tossed him a pack of bread. The next moment, a golden light entered the body of the former War God, now a crippled beggar and an A-rank prodigy. His shattered bones were reforged, and spiritual energy surged through him. The A-rank prodigy looked down at the pack of Panpan bread in his hand. 2. On his way to an interview at a company in a remote area, Jiang Yu spotted a blind man tangled in vines and sitting in a ditch. He casually pulled him out. The instant they touched, abundant energy flowed into the body of Prodigy B, whose eyes had burst and who was on the verge of being devoured by the supernatural. His sight returned, and the supernatural creature was instantly obliterated. Prodigy B looked down, feeling the lingering warmth in his palm. After failing to find work despite all his efforts, Jiang Yu sighed, took out all his savings, and opened a small agency. To his surprise, on the very first day of hiring, several people who looked incredibly impressive showed up for interviews. After hearing about all their outstanding abilities, Jiang Yu said hesitantly, “I-I’m sorry, I might not be able to pay you what you deserve. Maybe you should...” Before he could finish saying they should look elsewhere, they all waved their hands excitedly, claiming they only wanted proof of an internship. Jiang Yu, struck by a windfall or several windfalls at once: “...W-Well, all right, then.” And so the Evil God Agency opened with a bang, taking on all kinds of work across a huge range of services. For convenience, Jiang Yu personally put everything he had learned to use and created an app called “Can I Help?” For a dog-walking job, Jiang Yu tapped the screen and assigned it to A. 【A-Rank Mission: Subdue an A-rank supernatural two-headed wolfhound. Courier, please check your assignment.】 For a cat-finding job, Jiang Yu tapped the screen and assigned it to B. 【S-Rank Mission: Bring back civilians lost in the supernatural mists. Courier, please check your assignment.】 Jiang Yu was delighted with his days of simply finding cats and walking dogs for a hefty fee. After all, his star employees had already rushed to finish all the jobs. Unbeknownst to him, in a human world plagued by supernatural phenomena, word was spreading about an app called “Can I Help?” If you were being hunted by supernatural creatures or suffering from mental contamination, all you had to do was pay “faith currency” and a powerful expert would come to your aid in person. Later, as Jiang Yu happily counted his money one day, he suddenly remembered that he had faith points too. He casually opened the app and stared in shock at his off-the-charts faith level, his pupils shrinking to pinpricks. And later still The “Can I Help?” app icon became the only ray of hope in a world shrouded in gray fog. The Evil God Agency became the world’s most powerful company. Jiang Yu’s followers spread across the globe, building statues of him of their own accord. Meanwhile, Jiang Yu stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the divine kingdom built especially for him outside, then at the faith level that had gone off the charts on his app. He sighed helplessly: I just want to be a wage slave. Do you believe me? #What Do I Do When the Whole World Wants Me to Become the Supreme God?# Reader’s Guide: This story is plot-focused~ The love interest is undecided, 1v1, no betting on love interests. Click to read a satisfying novel full of people misinterpreting the situation. Muah muah! The upcoming novel is below. If you’re interested, please add it to your collection~ Upcoming Novel 【Rehired by the Esper Academy, but Every Great Sage Is One of My Secret Identities】 Blurb: 1. Jiang Xun, the System Bureau’s star employee, worked diligently for three hundred years, creating eighteen secret identities across an otherworld plagued by supernatural phenomena. At last, he established the world’s top esper academy, the Myriad Phenomena Academy. After centuries of effort, the Myriad Phenomena Academy had produced students all over the world. The supernatural was driven back, and human civilization entered a golden age. Satisfied, Jiang Xun submitted his resignation and prepared to retire to a quiet life. But when he opened his eyes again, he found himself a thousand years in the future. The supernatural had returned, human civilization had collapsed, and order had fallen apart. The Myriad Phenomena Academy he had built with his own hands had fallen from its place atop the world, disappearing into some forgotten corner where no one even knew it existed. Jiang Xun: “...” The most absurd part was that some unknown System appeared and began shouting excitedly in his ear: “Host! Your mission is to join the Myriad Phenomena Academy. Start as an instructor and bring this once-great, now-declining academy back to its peak!” “Did you know? The academy’s first dean was a world-shaking figure who created the heavens and the earth! The second and third generations were also famous, legendary prodigies!” As the System went on and on in his ear, Jiang Xun straightened his collar with a composed air. Yes, that’s right. Everything you just mentioned was me. After all, that otherworld hadn’t developed immortality technology or any related esper abilities. To keep running the academy in the future, Jiang Xun had to constantly change his secret identities: dean one year, head of student affairs the next, and full professor the year after that. Unwilling to see the academy he had built with his own hands end up like this, Jiang Xun gladly accepted the job. On his first day, he stood before the Hall of Fame. From the first dean, Jiang Lin, to the later Mr. Sanshui, Professor Gong, Mentor Shui, and the rest, every name looked strangely familiar. Jiang Xun coughed lightly. Well, this was a little embarrassing... 2. But soon, he ran into a real setback. After the Great Cataclysm, so much knowledge had been lost that the teaching theories, practical experience, and esper development manuals he had left behind were all incomplete. The students at the academy treated the scattered sayings of the great sages like gospel, spending every day poring over incomplete texts and reciting them. They quoted things his secret identities had once said at every opportunity. That would have been fine, except every quote was only half complete!!! One day, a student stood in a pavilion holding The Collected Sayings of Jiang Lin, raised his arm, and led a group of students in chanting: “Dean Jiang Lin said that the essence of esper abilities lies in one’s character, not one’s power, ” Watching the students blush with excitement as they read the sages’ words, Jiang Xun hesitated for a long time before finally blurting out, “There’s more to that quote. But if you lack both character and power, I suggest you go home and farm.” Silence fell. The students all turned to look at him. “Who are you?” Jiang Xun smiled faintly. “Your new instructor for esper theory.” In the days that followed, the students realized there was something strange about their new Instructor Jiang. What he taught matched the contents of the incomplete ancient texts perfectly, as if he had the full versions in his head. The esper techniques he casually demonstrated always overturned the theories in their textbooks, yet they were a hundred times more effective. When grading their assignments, he would cross out a few lines of their answers and write the same comment on most of them: I already explained this before. More absurdly, he even knew the great sages’ little habits. “Mr. Sanshui didn’t actually like tea. He liked cola, but back then, he couldn’t get any.” “Professor Gong made that rule because a student had annoyed him. It had nothing to do with studying.” “Dean Jiang Lin? Oh, him... He was perfect. His only flaw was occasionally forgetting which secret identity he was using.” The students: “??? How do you know that?!” Jiang Xun, forgetting his secret identity again, answered with a straight face: “It’s in the history books.” The students believed him! After all, he really was powerful. 3. In one month, Jiang Xun took the class at the bottom of the rankings to first place in their year. In three months, the textbooks he revised were adopted throughout the school. In six months, the Myriad Phenomena Academy rose from near the bottom to the top ten. In a year, the Myriad Phenomena Academy reclaimed the number-one spot. The entire esper world began spreading the news: a genius had appeared at the Myriad Phenomena Academy a thousand years later, one who might be even more brilliant than the dozen or so prodigies who came before him! His teaching was impossibly good. How had he done it?! Only Jiang Xun knew that all he had done was rewrite what he had written himself back then. Just as the academy’s reputation soared and powerful families and high-ranking officials fought to get their children admitted, the heavens and earth changed color and the void trembled. An indescribable being, so vast it made the soul shudder, slowly descended over the academy. It was the legendary ancient evil god, who had vanished into the pages of history a thousand years ago and now reappeared in the world. The students turned deathly pale and gripped their weapons, ready to charge to their deaths while shouting about bonds and burning passion. Jiang Xun had just finished grading papers and was walking by when he stopped at the sight of the sky-blocking figure. He looked closer and saw the being carrying a ton of cola in its left hand and dragging a truckload of Moutai in its right. Jiang Xun stood with his hands behind his back and sighed, shaking his head. “Little Ke, a thousand years have passed, and you’re still so good at reading the room.” Everyone who heard Instructor Jiang: “??!” The evil god, quietly setting the gifts down by the entrance: “...” 【Bonus Scene】 One day, the System finally connected to the internet. It spent all night going through its Host’s past mission records, then fell silent. “Host, you... built an academy by yourself?” “Mm.” “And ran it for a thousand years?!” “Mm.” “And also happened to suppress five evil gods, hundreds of world-ending supernatural entities, and tens of thousands of panic-level anomalies???” “Of those three evil gods, one was pretty reasonable. That was the one who brought the gifts earlier.” Jiang Xun thought for a moment, then added, “The other four are still locked under the academy. Want to go take a look? Two of them have pretty distinctive appearances.” The System, knocked senseless by one surprise after another: “...I need to reboot.” Unless something unexpected happens, this will be my next novel. If you like it, please add it to your collection~ Love you all~ Muah! Theme: You tell me.