the weakest god

"Brother Aru, I will be leaving with the other brides of the deity in a month."

Inside the rental house, Deng Ru's hand holding the soda trembled slightly when he heard the words spoken by the girl across from him.

This girl's name was Qiu Yuan, the first person he met when he was transported to this planet Blue Star, and also the first person to show him kindness.

She was his only believer in this world as a deity.

But unexpectedly... she had been chosen by the deity ruling over City H to become one of his brides.

Although Deng Ru was also a deity himself, capable of absorbing faith to become powerful, unfortunately, he was the weakest deity, with only one believer and no strength.

He simply couldn't compete with the deity ruling over City H's faith.

He couldn't even beat the fervent believers of that deity.

"Leaving to get married in a month?"

Deng Ru put down his soda and asked calmly, pretending to be composed.

Qiu Yuan nodded, with a glint of tears in her eyes.

"Brother Aru, I don't want to get married. Brother Aru, I remember you're also a deity, right? I'll marry you, okay?"

"..."

Deng Ru didn't say anything. The girl in front of him was only eighteen years old, and at such a young age, she had to get married, to a deity who wasn't even human.

He had seen that deity before, and his purpose for marrying wasn't related to sex or love.

He simply lacked some toys for entertainment.

Once Qiu Yuan was sent over, she would likely be torn apart like a child's doll.

"You should go home. Staying here so late will worry your parents."

Deng Ru stood up and opened the door to his rental room, making his intention clear.

It was time for his guest to leave.

Qiu Yuan wasn't stupid, and she understood Deng Ru's implication.

Even as a deity, Deng Ru was powerless regarding her marriage to another deity.

Qiu Yuan felt a little disappointed, but she didn't blame Deng Ru.

She could guess that Deng Ru was no match for the deity ruling over City H.

Otherwise, a deity like Deng Ru wouldn't be living in such a small rental room.

He even had to rent from humans and work for them to support himself.

How could such a deity be a match for the one ruling over City H?

Qiu Yuan left Deng Ru's rental room feeling disappointed.

After Qiu Yuan left, Deng Ru slumped into the sofa chair and opened another bottle of soda, pouring the previous one, which had lost its fizz, into the trash can.

"System, system? Are you there? I need your help."

Silence...

It was clear that he didn't have the essential tool that many transmigrators possessed.

"Damn it, damn fate! Why did you make me transmigrate without giving me a system? What's the point of making me a deity when all the believer resources have already been divided up by other deities? Where am I supposed to find believers to become stronger?"

Deng Ru cursed angrily and threw the soda he had just opened on the ground.

A large puddle of black, fizzy liquid instantly appeared on the clean floor.

"That was my only believer, and you're just going to let her become another deity's bride? Isn't this like stealing my woman right in front of me?"

Deng Ru's heart was filled with anger and dissatisfaction.

If he could, he also wanted to try the heroic act of challenging authority for the sake of love.

But unfortunately, as a deity, he couldn't even beat the other deity's believers.

His strength was so weak that the other deity wouldn't even consider him its kind.

As Deng Ru complained about the unfairness of heaven, he suddenly saw a miraculous scene.

A group of black ants emerged from every corner of the rental room and gathered around the puddle of soda he had spilled, forming a circle.

But the most remarkable thing wasn't the ants surrounding the soda.

It was another group of ants.

They were arranged in two formations, each forming a Chinese character.

[Deng] [Ru]

To the left of these two characters formed by Deng Ru, there were three more character formations that he didn't understand. At least he could be certain that they weren't Chinese characters.

"What is this? An ant formation spelling out my name? An ant formation???"

Deng Ru's attention was immediately drawn to this miraculous scene.

Neither in his memories as a deity in this life nor in his experiences as an ordinary person in his past life had he ever seen ants spontaneously form words.

And they were forming his name.

He had heard of cases where people used sugar water to write words, and the next day, ants would form those words.

But this was his own rental room, and only he and Qiu Yuan had been here.

He knew very well that he hadn't used sugar water to write any words.

And the young girl Qiu Yuan wouldn't do such a thing either.

That meant these ants had spontaneously formed his name.

Without anyone teaching them or guiding them, they had spontaneously formed his name.

Deng Ru took a piece of bread out of the fridge, broke it into crumbs, and threw them into the ant formation.

Soon, the ants next to the soda puddle quickly walked over to the bread crumbs and carried them away.

Meanwhile, the ants in the formation began to dance in unison.

If they were people instead of ants, their dance would be very similar to the ancient rituals of worshipping deities.

"Huh, is this... faith power? Faith power coming from the ants?"

Deng Ru was stunned. He could clearly feel his meager faith power rapidly increasing.

In the past, he had only had Qiu Yuan as a believer, and his faith power had been increasing at a rate of 1 point per hour.

But now, his faith power was increasing at a rate of 0.1 points per hour per ant.

Although the individual amount was greatly reduced, the frequency was much faster than before. After all, the number of ants here was much greater than Qiu Yuan's contribution.

In the past, he could only collect 1 point of faith power per hour.

But at the current rate, his divine power could potentially collect tens of thousands of points per hour.

This was something he could never have imagined before.

"These ants are unusual. Maybe I can try communicating with them using my divine power."

Communicating with divine power was a natural ability possessed by all deities.

In fact, many deities couldn't understand human language, and they used divine power to express and understand their own thoughts and the needs of their believers.

As long as believers possessed thoughts and their own consciousness, even if it was just the nascent self-awareness emerging from chaos.

As a deity, one could use divine power to communicate with them.

And having self-awareness was the key to generating faith power. Since these ants could provide him with faith power, it meant that they possessed their own consciousness.

Moreover, their level of self-awareness was not low, considering they contributed a tenth of what Qiu Yuan did.