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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcwDd0BE3o
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFfjO8bFQN
greatness is known to all.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUMp8cD5rL
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy6rNsJnkt1
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pknUT4Qd2
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJNh2Vgwzm
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWFuhPgaEmg
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMAoUKQTwv
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Dn8HPesYg
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZh4TIOaA6L
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfBtNFFnLL
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtlT6kYIM6
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48U3jSJN7O
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkfghCp9I7
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSRMOBKXrD
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjklECfixBE
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkOh7peogK
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUNYZvbkqe
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfEv26CwXC
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJd8wsYzNa
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPiNgw7xmko
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEmKygCfkA
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEG8TgmMIY
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkU5NHMAaw
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zuXfK39g9
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIwN2m9sLy
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbunrDrf9ZH
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfiBXjQZ2wA
He is a dangerous man.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh749WkcflJ
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpAYg43I51
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgCBb80LUG
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFfRmUtW56
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAcGgGYjbu
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshWE41UmEJ
starvation.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnUO8d6oFt
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMiGiLneg5
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqCNYQVyLg
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0VdlIO6YO
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmckpPPBUCa
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevIpwBvH7t
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe21Yag4GuN
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡew3UrwfCgW
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGrVsVue2KP
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVCaXKUlRz
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6uAGgs0Ns
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeeAAg9Cmbg
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxfqyythPu
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoxyt6ESde
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoLBlUxV25
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5K5ie3vfoT
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAdjQiuotA
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAVHKbEigo
and dark continents waiting to be explored.335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwR3tGzg30R
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaz8mkmdWsw
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjBV4CIVDA
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps335Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsqnyoh0f7
advancing so do their means of exploring.
