The Most Honest Man of All Time

He awoke in a land beyond the limits of existence. Beneath his sword, all beings were equal. He sat alone through the ages, waiting only for one woman to look back.

Later, he became a migrant worker on a construction site, chewing on cold steamed buns and standing two steps behind her. When she asked what he was doing there, he said, "I just happened to be passing by."

That was the only lie he had told in all the ages he had lived.

The mountains and seas crumbled, and the apocalypse descended. She drew the Human Emperor's Sword from the ruins. Behind her, he turned his wait through the ages into a shield for all humanity. The Profound Emperor has arrived, and the origin is the human world.