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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73fekH4f3h
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHejqN5OZe
greatness is known to all.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJOy55myAC
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHXMlhbPy2
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8EQ9S7HqX
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vd66h096b
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQNJSt54il
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqX2NBxL5CI
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hq1gbCYPD
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9Mm6BAIEm
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRz5ROOYpmT
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fnE0vDzWo
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKV6baMBNqt
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZu7rH7Ybv
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQoBGWIReR
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJycLfA5BH
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bacABmV8y
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJ6GfKHHiO
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLcbWinAeh
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0EDkhKsG1J
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bO6D4SQhd
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXy8rRvhBN
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tGe2m80Cr
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVQLN84xba
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUH6pkMdOG
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHVltXpgPe
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFT25rwku9
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTbBvReKq7
He is a dangerous man.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkciK1l3Gf
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGJsvKqaog
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqekdtkSj4r
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgfYQAaFKT
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMpauzEJ8J
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡib3lRYH6YO
starvation.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡau36dQ9D6v
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2BEJnhRdC
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0cOOP5n8y
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyuMI1V2NT
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeki17TbGJ
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJ3ne8PqAk
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2f8XTOs8Ab
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtI17Q9LzcL
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXaasdM8NM1
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMou4J3uZFZ
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2U9yj8Y3Fe
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacoFVETMJK
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsR0WIv1jBS
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRQySVqeI5
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodJsCLVQdJ
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuLg1wZOBh
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFjTlYsP7P
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawjRTHPYrO
and dark continents waiting to be explored.339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqVLQ9O45K
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2qPLAd3lh
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMIR5pwLJa
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps339Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tZpOcTbY0
advancing so do their means of exploring.
