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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfYRrKy59n
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhNVNjX2iRz
greatness is known to all.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwOLOByAX2
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIE8dxhNIbO
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpiNgkLy5K
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXaBGwmhmT
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJv84Oqz97
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsvJm7VECA
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrF9D53Nl2n
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOwD5UZiQA
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJBsGiKnqb
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaA2CAeomO
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4WtZmHtNk
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXROOvDlnk
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObKljomk4f
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhGnqlJaZZ
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEJhftYy6G
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQglDkGaZgP
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwAvEk7Eay
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2M1Cbt16k5
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSO5mlvudXH
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8gvlnPdsD
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ249mq7cn0K
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNMvaOXXH3
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQWbkrlCXH
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7owEtqvXP
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFBgtHSp0d
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVN1BLJe2tn
He is a dangerous man.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWOd3GqRg9
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisrwu0LjqV
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5SY8NfmPo
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Flua24d7v
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfu6DslgQJa
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9N9pTT6kMd
starvation.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjuKLGzVQX
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUjlvrDrDa
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ562SsJlbCn
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClV79oAwJC
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMShMi9nhQ
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0DI6MBiZV
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zb7yP2gnu
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyo3SrGRw19
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSHs94q3qw
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSkq41Zvxw
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcade8K3H5S
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7AR9ldQzl
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpX8Flopw1K
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0O5vjJmX9n
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHC0jMuo6B
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhGwPzcu3X
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8m0ZRN4zP
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkxmvplU1i
and dark continents waiting to be explored.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UASwegqnh
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepviLZAwg6
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPB30SRLObI
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwNx4AD2dE
advancing so do their means of exploring.308Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ33L9AYKtC
