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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrGVbxuudAb
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEau8L3IO3
greatness is known to all.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubvBfjskNV
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBDmrlo5Nd
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3Sb7NzIx6
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvJr05ArK7
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Rht2RfjGw
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4T03IZPcQ
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRPNYp0bBO
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZqu5jd3pGU
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVrWLENDOj
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYJJs7XG16
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrDL7DvJk4
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWX8LiN8zd
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHI4dlM57Gw
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsGmHlVMNT
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrOFeAwSx4
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3o0dOawlWT
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmx0J4SyR0G
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rEzUjpXEg
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU849U5kgIU
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP50IPnv78E
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54EPitCeyh
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDV3wC5Zjo0
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0g168eH63r
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXQrIAF1KX
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2lAFEdHCA
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORxWqkcN66
He is a dangerous man.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBjanY9l4v
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7WPShdWfw
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pGbBPlrH9
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpb3BpPH2vy
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPkQTCqtrH
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgzraazVwxE
starvation.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡza6Xflvr8M
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3l1vhMutdL
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5FHD0TIIi
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjNFg4IWjS
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkF1LoC88w8
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzWQFaOOY2
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGzF1vu6QS
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡExgENdJUgG
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsnOMNUa12
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstE1QLvgq2
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5YaR9R9Dm
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1s7pZx36m
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTh9mVdb2MH
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapequWMTZb
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2l1c0NN5f
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDTTCwzK8d
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaSirvMeQf4
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrEh8P3ntFJ
and dark continents waiting to be explored.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPd3jNXaMLH
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17wBr22DIF
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqY8VeUtoJ
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOqQk2rrdd
advancing so do their means of exploring.306Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuq7GHvwPR
