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6. Voldeus: Hyperion’s Storm born
Sarvesh Mangesh Moghe (10 C)
The war erupted into its most violent hour. Armies clashed with
Many empires had risen and fallen across Hyperion, each earth-shaking fury as the Daimiriongun stormed forward. Steel
leaving behind scars of terror and ruin. But none reshaped the world screamed, thunder roared, and blood stained the ground. Yet even
as completely as the Arkaeans. When they defeated the fearsome amid the chaos, the Arkaeans began to push their enemies back.
Havoc Trinity, Hyperion finally saw the dawn of order. The Then the world itself trembled.
Arkaeans—powerful, disciplined, and at times stern—brought The battlefield split open as a lone warrior descended in a
stability wherever they conquered. And once they claimed Rabolca, shockwave—Baryon of the Archavalry, the quiet Thunder Warrior
the greatest cosmopolis on Hyperion, their empire soon spanned the whose true strength had long been underestimated. Lightning
entire planet. spiraled around him, twisting the air into a raging storm. With one
King Tenji ruled this vast dominion with firm precision and sweeping strike of his Raikiri, he tore through waves of
unwavering virtue. Strict yet just, brave yet compassionate, he was a Synkromians, moving faster than mortal eyes could follow. His fury
leader his people trusted with their lives. His son, Prince Saber, became a tempest made flesh.
showed the same spark of courage. By his side stood Rey, the loyal But this was only the beginning.
son of General Mark, commander of the Arkaean army. Together, As the sky churned and thunder detonated overhead,
Saber and Rey were celebrated as symbols of a bright, prosperous Baryon’s power rose beyond anything Hyperion had ever witnessed.
future. Something ancient awoke within him—a form whispered about only
But great power always draws shadows. in legend. Voldeus, the thunderborn avatar.
Beyond Hyperion, on the sinister world of Synchrome, lived Jigen watched in disbelief as Baryon’s wrath tore his armies
the Synkromians—the most merciless beings known. Their tyrant, apart. Desperate, cornered, and terrified, he unleashed his forbidden
Jigen, was a ruler who fed on conquest and suffering. Under him ultimate technique. Baryon answered with his own, a Mortal Limit
marched the Daimiriongun, a colossal army forged for a single fueled by the full might of a living storm.
purpose: absolute annihilation. Their attacks collided, splitting the heavens with blinding
The Synkromians had tasted defeat many times at the hands light. For a moment, Hyperion held its breath.
of the Arkaeans, yet their hatred only grew. So when the Arkaeans When the brilliance faded, the battlefield was nothing but
prepared a decisive, secret offensive to destroy them forever, fate ash and silence. At its heart lay Baryon—fallen. The greatest
twisted cruelly. Papyross, the Arkaean commander-in-chief, thunder warrior the planet had ever known died that day, and with
betrayed his own people and revealed their strategy to Jigen. him ended the final storm of the war.
For Jigen, this betrayal was a gift—a chance to crush the Yet beyond the smoking horizon, something stirred—
Arkaeans, to shatter Tenji’s pride, and to seize Hyperion at last. something that should not have survived.
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