Stormir El Thunderbane

The elder brother of Voltrex El Thunderbane, Stormir was the firstborn and the rightful heir to the Heaven's Sovereign Throne. He was regarded as the talent of a generation, reaching the Awakened Sage Realm at the mere age of fifteen—a prodigy that appeared only once in five-hundred years. In his youth, every passing day added a new chapter to history written by this young prince.

At the age of twenty, Stormir's father, the previous king, wished to pass the throne to him. However, Stormir had no interest in ruling the Hundred Sky Mountains. He longed to roam the vast world, sail endless seas, and challenge the strongest cultivators across every continent. He knew that becoming king would bind him to the throne and to the Hundred Sky Mountains themselves, and so, whenever the former king raised the topic of succession, Stormir dismissed it with flimsy excuses.

When Stormir turned twenty-five, the previous king was blessed with another child—or perhaps cursed would be the more fitting word, as the child's birth claimed the life of his mother.

This child, named Voltrex El Thunderbane by his mother before her death, was unlike his elder brother. While Stormir had awakened at the age of five, Voltrex showed no signs of awakening even after turning fifteen.

The second prince became the subject of ridicule and mockery throughout the Hundred Sky Mountains. Though he bore the title of prince, the respect that came with it slowly faded due to his inability to cultivate. Being born crippled within the Thunderbane clan—renowned for their overwhelming might and ferocious battle prowess—was deemed utterly unacceptable.

Yet there were two individuals who never mocked him or showed even the slightest displeasure toward the crippled prince.

The first was the king himself—his father—who, unlike the other Thunderbanes that blamed Voltrex for the queen's death, treated him as a precious treasure: the last remnant left behind by his beloved wife. Never once did the king display disappointment or resentment toward Voltrex's inability to cultivate.

The second was Voltrex's elder brother and the first prince—Stormir.

Stormir respected and loved his younger brother deeply, for he was fully aware of the efforts Voltrex poured into cultivation. He knew of the bloodied calluses on Voltrex's palms, the tortured muscles that screamed for rest, and the burning determination in his brother's eyes—a fire that refused to be extinguished, no matter the mockery or insults he endured.

As the previous king grew old and his younger son remained unable to cultivate, Stormir ceased his travels beyond the Hundred Sky Mountains, burying his desires deep within his heart. The first prince stood on the verge of abandoning his dreams, steeling himself to finally accept the throne his father had offered him for many years—when something entirely unexpected occurred.

A foreign physician of unknown origin arrived at the Hundred Sky Mountains. He boldly claimed that he could cure any disease or curse that existed in Vyoman—a proclamation so audacious that it immediately drew the attention of the aging king, whose second son was considered crippled.

The king welcomed the physician and promised him any reward he desired if he could treat Voltrex.

Voltrex had already been examined by the finest physicians of the Western Continent. Forget a cure—even those renowned experts had failed to identify the disease itself. Yet this foreign physician needed only a single glance at the young prince. His eyes widened, his lips parted, and he stammered,

"Th-the prince is not crippled. H-he… he was born with the Heavenly Thunder Sovereign Body."

The king and the first prince, Stormir, were left utterly baffled upon hearing the name of this legendary body constitution—one they had known only through the ancient scriptures of their clan. The Heavenly Thunder Sovereign Body could be cultivated only under pure heavenly lightning and granted absolute control over lightning of the Heavenly Class.

In Vyoman, every attribute was divided into four categories based on purity:

Common, Calamity, Heavenly, and Sovereign class.

Most cultivators awakened with Common-class attributes. Talented individuals—roughly one in a thousand—awakened Calamity-class attributes. Only a select few, merely a handful across an entire empire, could access Heavenly-class attributes.

Stormir was one such individual. Yet even he could not achieve absolute control over blue lightning—the lightning of the Heavenly Class. And Voltrex, who had long been mocked and ridiculed for his inability to cultivate, was born with a body constitution capable of commanding such devastating power. The revelation was nothing short of a blessing bestowed by the heavens upon the Hundred Sky Mountains.

As for Sovereign-class attributes, only those born with divinity—the gods themselves—possessed access to such power.

Once Voltrex received the cultivation method for his Heavenly Thunder Sovereign Body, a legacy left behind by the ancestors of the Thunderbanes, he instantly soared through the realms. To cultivate this body, the outer shell of the cultivator had to be tempered to withstand the strain of lightning tribulations upon the flesh.

As for Voltrex, who had done nothing but relentlessly torture his body through frenzied training, the results were nothing short of a miracle—one that defied the common laws of cultivation.

In a single instant, Voltrex shattered the Low-Tier realms, directly reaching the Awakened Sage Realm, yet he did not stop there. Within a year, the second prince had already reached the ninth level of the Awakened Sage Realm, silencing every individual who had once dared to insult him during his lowest days.

As for the physician, the primary catalyst behind this miracle, he asked for nothing, despite the king's repeated insistence.

"Since I did not cure him, I will not ask for any payment," the physician remained steadfast in this single phrase.

When the foreign physician departed from the Hundred Sky Mountains to continue his journey, tales of his miracles spread across every corner of the mainland, until he vanished without a trace. Various sects, kings, and even emperors offered heavenly rewards for the slightest information regarding the foreign physician. Alas, his traces faded as though he had never existed in the first place.

In later years, this physician of unknown origin came to be known as the Divine Physician.

Meanwhile, in the Hundred Sky Mountains, Stormir stepped down as the heir to the Heaven's Sovereign Throne, allowing his younger brother, Voltrex—now more than worthy to rule over the Seven Banes—to become the new heir.

A few years later, the king retired, passing the throne to Voltrex, while Stormir departed from the Hundred Sky Mountains to once again continue his journey across the continent. Stormir had returned only thirty years ago to support his younger brother in the war against the demons.

This was the man standing before Taranis—the only cultivator, besides his father Voltrex, to have reached the Demi-God Realm in the Western Continent.

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