"My name is Chen Luo. Of course, you can call me Lamp God if you want."
"Mr. Lamp God, are you telling the truth? About the future me making wishes to you?"
"Why would I lie to you? More precisely, that wasn't the future you. They were merely the many possible outcomes you might face without my help. One of them was being unable to escape this forest and getting killed by Raven," Chen Luo said.
"So the future me had countless ways to die?"
"No. You had very few ways to die. There was more despair than death." Chen Luo shook his head.
"Despair?"
"For all kinds of reasons, your progress was delayed. You were either killed, abducted, or taken back to the Imperial Palace, preventing you from setting up the formation. The fire-element exotic beast then ravaged the country, leaving countless people displaced and countless soldiers dead. That was where the despair and heartache came from."
"I see..." Stargazer gave Chen Luo a long look.
Stargazer gradually began to believe Chen Luo's words, because she had escaped the Imperial Palace specifically to set up a formation to trap the fire-element exotic beast. No one besides Stargazer knew about that.
But this Lamp God, this God of Wishes, could even grant wishes from the future. That was simply too incredible.
"But why are there dozens of wishes?" Stargazer was still somewhat confused.
"You having few ways to die doesn't mean you died only a few times. Without me, this forest would be your burial ground... Raven was quite competent as an assassin, aside from being a little greedy," Chen Luo said.
What Chen Luo meant was that Stargazer had few ways of dying, but she died many times, mostly at Raven's hands.
Those overly swift and decisive deaths left