I'm a God in Another World

"Praise you!

"Great Sun God,

"Source of all life,

"Ruler of all things!"

A group of primitive people dressed in animal skins, their faces painted, danced in strange steps before a stone pillar carved with the image of a sun, praying as they moved.

Jiang Hao had only just come to his senses. The sight before him left him dumbfounded.

Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?

As one of China's countless office drones, he had recently been part of a team that landed a huge order. Their boss had rewarded the entire team with a trip to Japan.

After they arrived in the Eastern Isles, Jiang Hao's coworkers eagerly called for everyone to hit Ginza and experience the nightlife. But a tiny black vortex had suddenly appeared before his eyes.

No one else could see or touch it, and it followed him wherever he went. For a while, he wondered if something was wrong with his eyes.

He had hurriedly said goodbye to his coworkers and returned to the hotel. After shutting the door, he had tentatively reached out to touch the black vortex. His vision had gone dark, and then he was here.

Lush forest. Towering trees so thick it would take several people to encircle them. Primitive people dancing before him with strange steps.

Stranger still, he could understand their language.

Don't tell me I've crossed into another world? Jiang Hao's mouth slowly fell open.

He had grown up reading webnovels and encountered the idea of crossing worlds countless times. But now that it had happened to him, he couldn't help feeling uneasy.

The primitive people dancing below sensed Jiang Hao's presence and immediately grew excited.

"The great god has descended!"

"Bring up the sacrifice, quickly!"

A god? Me? Jiang Hao froze. In a daze, he watched the primitive people push forward a man in a white robe, with blond hair, blue eyes, and white bandages wrapped around his head.

The man saw the stone pillar and seemed to realize what was happening. He struggled in terror. "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! You can't kill me! I'm a Baron! I have money, lots and lots of money! Don't kill me!"

He thrashed, but the primitive people gripping his arms held fast as iron.

An elderly primitive man walked up to him, raised an iron dagger, and stabbed him.

Crimson blood gushed out and ran toward the stone pillar, staining its base red.

The primitive people let go. The man collapsed, his pupils dilated. A dazed soul rose from his body and drifted toward Jiang Hao.

So people really do have souls!

Watching the man's soul, Jiang Hao reached out with his right hand, half curious and half intent on examining it, and tried to grab it.

The instant his fingers touched the soul, the dazed man abruptly regained his senses.

The man's soul saw a black-and-red sun within the stone pillar, and a figure inside that sun reaching out to seize him. He screamed in terror. "Great Lord of Dawn Amon Ato, a wicked god is trying to devour my soul! Please save your believer! I don't want to be devoured by a False God! I want to go to your kingdom!"

At the same time, he fought back fiercely.

Jiang Hao snatched his hand away in alarm. But the next moment, the man melted like ice, turning into a streak of red light that entered Jiang Hao's body.

At the same time, fragments of memory suddenly surfaced and slowly unfolded in his mind!

The unlucky man the primitive people had killed as a sacrifice was Ian Albert, a Baron from Ganzros City in the Violet Kingdom, in the north of the continent.

He was a Baron in name, but he had long since fallen on hard times. Apart from his noble title and two wandering knights he had lured into serving him as squires with promises of knighthood, he had no retainers at all.

Three days earlier, a vast forest had appeared out of thin air beside Ganzros City. After investigating it, Archmage Tingen had declared that it contained no magical beasts and named it the Endless Forest.

No magical beasts meant the Endless Forest was an untouched treasure trove.

Dreaming of striking it rich by finding gold, silver, or gemstone mines, Ian had taken his two knight squires into the Endless Forest. A day ago, they had encountered this primitive tribe.

Both squires had died on the spot. Ian had been captured and offered as a sacrifice to a False God.

A False God? He means me! Jiang Hao's heart stirred, and another memory fragment surfaced, its contents slowly becoming clear.

Countless primitive people prostrated themselves before the stone pillar and prayed. Every so often, they placed prey before it and killed the animals in a blood sacrifice.

For thousands of years, the power born of those sacrifices and their faith gathered in the pillar. Gradually, it nurtured a Sun God.

With a few more centuries of faith and blood sacrifices, that Sun God would have developed a consciousness of its own.

But after the black hole brought Jiang Hao here, he had taken over the Sun God's place and seized its form. Now he was the deity the primitive people called the Sun God.

I'm a god... Jiang Hao felt both excited and afraid. Excited because he was a god—even a False God stood at the pinnacle of all supernatural beings.

What frightened him was that, in Ian Albert's memories, gods born from the blood sacrifices and faith of primitive people were called False Gods. They resided on the Main Plane and had no Divine Kingdom of their own.

And whether it was the Seven Primordial Gods, born at the dawn of the world, or the New Gods, who had ascended and established their Divine Kingdoms over the past several million years, their attitude toward False Gods was clear.

Once discovered, they were attacked immediately.

"My situation is pretty bad. I'm like a rat in the street—once anyone spots me, everyone will come after me." Jiang Hao instinctively shrank back.

He shook his head and decided to lie low and grow stronger in the Endless Forest. Until he became a True God, he absolutely would not let the world know he existed.

"But..." Jiang Hao looked up at the two blazing red suns. "I wonder if I can still get back to Earth."

Compared with this other world, Earth was his home.

No sooner had he thought that than a black vortex appeared in his mind.

"It's the vortex that brought me to this world."

Jiang Hao reached out and touched the black vortex. His vision suddenly went dark. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself back in the hotel.

"This black hole connects the other world and Earth. I can use it to travel freely between them." Jiang Hao brightened.

He took out his phone and checked his reflection.

Close-cropped hair, a fair face, and a little fine white fuzz along the sides.

It was his own face.

"I've turned back into a human?"

He also discovered that, after his return, the black vortex had moved from in front of him into his mind. Somehow, he could even sense his own consciousness.

At a thought, a black-and-red sun rose behind him, bathing the cramped room in a dark crimson glow.

"Even though I've turned back into a human, I still have all my powers as the Sun God of that other world."