Many years ago, the First Lantern once encountered an ordinary man on the timeline of a parallel universe who mistook him for a god.
Oh, this was not some extraordinary character.
He was neither the protagonist of Destiny nor a hidden prodigy. He was not a superpowered individual, merely a mortal.
Due to a teleportation error, the First Lantern accidentally appeared before him. He should have vanished half a second later, but that ordinary man asked him a question...
"My God, are you a god? Could you... could you tell me... what is the ultimate meaning of life?"
The First Lantern could not answer his question, but he was no ordinary mortal.
To the First Lantern, a timeline was nothing more than a repaired concrete road.
Although he could not know the future of the Over-Time Stream—in other words, when the concrete road would next be repaired—all he needed to do was look toward the other end of that road to easily read the future of a single timeline.
So, out of curiosity, he looked into the ordinary man's future.
That ordinary man had come to this realization.
"People can never keep climbing over mountains forever. One day, you will reach a hurdle you cannot cross, an obstacle you will never overcome no matter how long you spend trying.
You have already climbed high enough. Perhaps even taller mountains exist, but you have reached your limit. You can climb no higher.
Then... centuries from now, my story will be forgotten, the scrolls I wrote will rot into ashes and become part of the grass and trees, my achievements will collapse, my house will come crashing down, and my love, hatred, affection, resentment—all the hurdles in life that I once thought I could never cross—will all vanish like smoke.
So tell