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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZMLTMO4Gf
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXzD1Kf2Wg
greatness is known to all.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2355QaOdv
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqezgQGlecK
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSaPmK2kz3E
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcTGgrTk74
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWI9AcuBmw
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoP7anMoNm
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavqO8NWxoP
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSG0IZFYX2O
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEYsTrWYcJ
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOq9EsL6vQ
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPwv4zL9LV
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEM8ezPjjlH
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmPM2tWcPf
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbpFe7xPbF
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmJrmSBZsG
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWqQyZzvbt
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzW4IaNyKPW
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgWDZtOtD9
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDT5K6osZ8I
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOf0qFOMsqq
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjxAUO0Y4p
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKV71Xdnwdk
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhn2fcAMs3
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4X3ZyiDLd
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxvbZWcGGz
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAzgcA7Yzf
He is a dangerous man.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Cd5WP0CET
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmBtRCoxC9
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJd8DW2mTzX
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsuiBSJZdP
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVs6DltPDX
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2lm7SZlVL
starvation.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3Z2fhsppE
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCdzqiAEst
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3RMlffdhW
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpcxSQdcQa
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykQPf86JhW
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdbojuP4bx
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESarDTJ8nH
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZuVLj8APK
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcCjNSuEwG
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gOwcvVkkl
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXUw5lJcKy
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAzoIU6UHe
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcEUaZUqXl
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ij5bVVPoC
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7bxRBx1u8
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskqmPnpweF
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTGp0LDznz
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSviztcLhEJ
and dark continents waiting to be explored.399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUPyrpvTni
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxlM7cIA2x
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jVYdcqLXm
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps399Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUDFqzO8o8
advancing so do their means of exploring.
