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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsCCbxS0ty
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZqGgkFfIsb
greatness is known to all.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6oex6wTYiu
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIz8nbo7ZCL
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTOxdTknZ8
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoAhr3EV62
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQ6YSO3VBm
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2Z1ZbOfdq
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwawV8hsY2
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNT2dwlKBLI
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxXuHng7ED
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDpOPoMk7l
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUDzqSa5e4x
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65js2l48Qp
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKW9G4kZknA
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEKynevtBC
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLNNQTFul4
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9P8ugjqDNf
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdokU9nCaIJ
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3T7ikq6it2
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4zmzHTdaC
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvseplMaE5
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVz4twkA4P
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8QrH43EMZ
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhBS5sZtK1
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyywjmKbVPX
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqP1hVvOhb
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuhoxIyinO
He is a dangerous man.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeN7qRcyS8I
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU99osARnRM
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfHHKQGaMZ
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfB6l38JmTa
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bQzU8dPbz
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKcVOKbDG9
starvation.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBd7wvpV64
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQjqS0BvF7
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjFLS4fLmz
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VyWhd49Yr
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdOUEgUGHT
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2nKvcPSU1
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvlHOIzQaN
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOZraVVWfV
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6kbGl2f3y
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPOyBMvTl0
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOCbd1B3Ip
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwd6I5Qhs6y
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXdYcpgQ9s
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Eehg2x2jW
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2burxMXkAQ
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzbPCG0Nys
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrN7fVq2Iiu
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpNftiziEn
and dark continents waiting to be explored.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQoMZBzKjM
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIKcufuOAE
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2lkT6xWSC
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡphkkV4mJB8
advancing so do their means of exploring.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsl67z2ncb4
