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

[Coming Soon: Rehired by the Superpower Academy, but All the Sages Are My Secret Identities. Blurb below.] Jiang Yu is an evil god. When he wakes up one day, he discovers that the world has no gods and faith has collapsed. His divine nature is shattered, and his divine power has fallen silent as still water.

To survive, Jiang Yu has no choice but to start looking for work, getting up early and staying up late.

1. One night, on his way to catch the bus, Jiang Yu comes across a beggar with a broken leg and casually tosses him a pack of bread.

The next moment, a beam of golden light enters the body of the former God of War, now a beggar with a broken foot, an A-rank prodigy.

His shattered bones are reforged, spiritual power surges through him. The A-rank prodigy looks down and sees a pack of Panpan mini buns in his hand.

2. On a foggy day, while heading to an interview at a company in a remote area, Jiang Yu spots a blind man tangled in vines and sitting in a ditch. He casually pulls him out.

At the moment they make contact, abundant energy instantly enters the body of the B-rank prodigy, whose eyes have burst and who is on the verge of being devoured by the supernatural.

His sight returns, and the supernatural creature vanishes in an instant. The B-rank prodigy looks down, feeling lingering warmth in his palm.

After failing to find a job, Jiang Yu sighs and takes out all his savings to open a small agency.

To his surprise, on the very first day of hiring, several people who look incredibly impressive show up for interviews.

Hearing all the outstanding abilities the applicants demonstrate, Jiang Yu says through gritted teeth, "S-sorry, I might not be able to pay you what you're worth. Maybe you should..."

Before he can say, "look for a better job elsewhere," the applicants across from him excitedly wave their hands, insisting they only want proof of an internship.

Jiang, hit by a windfall, and then several of them, Yu: "...W-well, all right, then."

And so, the Evil God Agency opens to great fanfare. It accepts every kind of job and has an incredibly broad range of services.

For convenience, Jiang Yu even creates a "Can I Help?" app.

For the first order, a dog-walking job, Jiang Yu taps the screen and assigns it to A.

[A-rank mission: Subdue an A-rank two-headed hellhound. Courier, please check your assignment.]

For the second order, a cat-finding job, Jiang Yu taps the screen and assigns it to B.

[S-rank mission: Bring back the victims trapped in the Fog Domain. Courier, please check your assignment.]

Jiang Yu is incredibly content with his days of doing little more than finding cats and walking dogs for an absurd amount of pay. After all, his star employees have already rushed to finish all the work.

Unbeknownst to him, in a human world recently overrun by supernatural horrors, an app called "Can I Help?" is making the rounds. If you're being hunted by a supernatural creature or suffering from mental contamination, just pay in "faith currency" and a powerful expert will personally assist you.

Later, one day, as Jiang Yu happily counts his money, it suddenly occurs to him that he has a thing called faith points. He casually opens the app and stares in shock at his faith points, which have gone off the charts.

And later still...

The "Can I Help?" app icon becomes the only glimmer of hope in a world shrouded in gray fog.

The Evil God Agency becomes the world's most powerful company.

Jiang Yu's followers spread across the globe, sculpting statues of him of their own accord.

As for Jiang Yu, he stands before the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the divine realm specially built for him outside, then at the faith points on his app, which have gone off the charts. He sighs helplessly:

I just want to be a wage slave. Do you believe me?

#What Do I Do When the Whole World Begs Me to Become the Supreme God?##

Reader's guide: This story focuses on the main plot. The love interest is undecided, one-on-one, no betting on potential partners. Click to dive into a hilariously self-deluded power fantasy. Muah, muah! The upcoming story is below. If you're interested, please add it to your favorites!

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[Rehired by the Superpower Academy, but All the Sages Are My Secret Identities]

Blurb: 1. Jiang Xun is a star employee at the System Bureau. After diligently working for three hundred years and opening eighteen secret identities in the supernatural world, he finally establishes the world's first superpower academy, the Myriad Phenomena Academy.

After centuries of hard work, the Myriad Phenomena Academy has graduates everywhere and talent across the globe. The supernatural is defeated, and human civilization enters a golden age.

Satisfied, Jiang Xun submits his resignation and prepares to enjoy his retirement.

Instead, when he opens his eyes, he finds himself a thousand years in the future.

The supernatural has returned, human society has fallen into chaos, and civilization has suffered a catastrophic break.

The Myriad Phenomena Academy has fallen from its lofty heights and vanished from the records.

Jiang, at a loss for words, Xun: ...?

Most absurd of all, a System appears out of nowhere and chatters incessantly in his ear. "Host! Your mission is to join the Myriad Phenomena Academy as a lecturer and restore this once-great, now-declining school to its former glory, starting from the top!"

"Did you know? The first dean of the Myriad Phenomena Academy was a legendary figure who could shape the heavens and earth! Every generation after him had famous prodigies, too. The academy was unbelievably awesome in its early days!"

Listening to the System holler with such passion, Jiang Xun modestly straightens his collar.

Right, yes. All the people you're talking about are me.

After all, humans can't live forever, and no such superpower exists. To run the academy, he had to keep changing secret identities.

One day he was the dean, the next the head of student affairs, and the day after that he became a full professor. He had even served as captain of the security team.

Unable to bear seeing the academy in such a sorry state, Jiang Xun gladly joins the staff.

Standing before the honor roll, he looks at the all-too-familiar names listed there: Dean Jiang Lin, Mr. Sanshui, Professor Gong, Instructor Shui, and others. Jiang Xun gives a light cough.

You have to admit, this is kind of awkward.

2. But it doesn't take long for Jiang Xun to face a real setback.

After the great cataclysm, human civilization has been severely disrupted. The teaching theories, practical experience, and superpower development manuals he left behind are all incomplete.

The children at the academy treat the words of those sages as holy writ, studying incomplete texts every day and quoting what he once said at every turn.

But those quotes are only half the sentence!!!

Jiang Xun covers his face and falls silent.

One day.

A student holding Selected Sayings of Jiang Lin raises his arm and cries, "The key to superpowers lies in clever use, not brute force..."

A crowd of students gathers around him, echoing his words with flushed, excited faces.

Seeing this, Jiang Xun wants to speak, stops himself, then wants to speak again. In the end, he can't hold back. "There's more to that quote: if you have neither cleverness nor brute force, then you might as well go home and herd sheep."

The whole place falls silent. The students all turn to glare at him, their faces full of displeasure. "Who are you?"

Jiang Xun smiles faintly. "Your new theory lecturer."

3. In the days that follow, the students realize there's something a little off about Lecturer Jiang.

He never opens a book during class, yet he can recite the contents of ancient texts with ease, and even supplement and correct them.

The superpower techniques he demonstrates offhand are completely different from what's in the books, yet a hundred times more effective than what's taught there.

His comments on assignments are strange, too. He always writes a line first, then crosses it out. One student recognizes the crossed-out line as, "I already told you about this problem before," even though it's their first class with Lecturer Jiang.

More absurdly, he knows all sorts of little secrets about the sages.

"Mr. Sanshui didn't like tea. He liked cola, but they didn't have the means for it back then."

"Professor Gong made that school rule simply because a student got on his nerves. It had nothing whatsoever to do with studying."

"Oh, Dean Jiang Lin? He's... practically perfect. His only flaw is that he sometimes forgets which secret identity he's wearing. I mean, which clothes he's wearing. Yes, that's it."

The students: "...?! How do you know everything?"

Jiang, who forgot his secret identity again, Xun: "This matter is also recorded in the history books."

The students believe him. After all, this guy really is powerful.

4. After that...

One month later, Jiang Xun takes the class that had ranked dead last to first in its grade.

Three months later, the textbooks he revises are adopted by the entire academy.

Six months later, the Myriad Phenomena Academy climbs from near the bottom to the national top ten.

One year later, the Myriad Phenomena Academy reclaims its place at the top of the world.

Word spreads throughout the superpower world that, a thousand years later, the Myriad Phenomena Academy has produced another genius, and a genius among geniuses at that.

Just as the academy's fame is soaring and powerful families and high-ranking officials are eager to send their children there to study...

The sky and earth change color, and the void trembles.

An indescribable being slowly descends above the academy.

The students' expressions change. The legendary evil god has returned to the mortal world after vanishing for a thousand years!

Their faces turn deathly pale, but not one of them steps back. Shouting about bonds, hot-blooded courage, and not letting their teacher's lessons go to waste, they rush forward, ready to die.

At the critical moment, Jiang Xun, having finished grading assignments, pauses and looks up at the figure blotting out the sky.

Look closely, and you'll see that the being is carrying a ton of cola in its left hand and towing a truckload of Maotai liquor with its right.

Jiang Xun stands with his hands behind his back, shaking his head with a helpless sigh. "Little Ke, a thousand years have passed, and you still know how to handle people so well."

Everyone, hearing what Lecturer Jiang said: "...??? What?!"

The evil god, quietly leaving the gifts at the door: shyly scratching his head.jpg

[Bonus Scene]

One day, after finally reconnecting, the System falls silent for a long time upon learning about its Host's glorious past.

"Host, you... built an academy all by yourself?"

"Mm."

"And ran it for a thousand years?!"

"Mm."

"And casually suppressed five evil gods, hundreds of world-ending supernatural horrors, and tens of thousands of panic-level anomalies???"

"Mm."

"One of them was the one who brought you cola that day. The rest are locked up in the basement. Two of them look pretty distinctive. Want to go see?" Jiang Xun invites it enthusiastically.

The System, stunned by the surprise: Wait, I need to reboot.

Blurb written on June 11, 2026. Screenshot saved as proof.

Moral: The greater your ability, the greater your responsibility.