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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZx13AlfeJ
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKGRzD7yO0
greatness is known to all.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6shDavRLbE
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgeSGmOzU6
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwRITStzWL
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnbiAiTbbd
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDUvWPMAE6
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbSh6KBknZs
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBNvo01r8o
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8zev9G7T4
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTyu09uZLJ
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0xZoZNH7i
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡirEc1nUDjB
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡciOaO1fJLK
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfwRarTWsB
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4w9fMRcmV
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcotJq1wpzi
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8x7XtXodS1
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddZBY7k1I4
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7YuGAKiM7
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvuuk7hqNh2
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuG3L6zlYcI
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08YYK5NHMw
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0N0uyloHk
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZ7slivPvY
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Dn21DkYQ8
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMatQifGw6
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23DAgwSzDI
He is a dangerous man.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡax2TEVkTiU
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZP10vSHUN
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4L0FadCz4X
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0502haZqmR
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYoSPtQQhV
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nUqxjzint
starvation.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTBmHHeWFX
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1x0ZyapOg
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6BXkcSwes
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbpl5JMF2j
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOESjBDm7Po
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgidrDNY4TU
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cAU7kyKB6
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JBCy5fCSu
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKGAeIPPVm
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXX55Jyn4C
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPwcKxsBX4
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuycLqIWPRV
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEe8jRLgXYA
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWLZEvnLJZ
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61zhT0DGPJ
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQemdFQTuNt
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7g4HqzG1Fl
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NmYd3kUeO
and dark continents waiting to be explored.325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4YSVAUOxm
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8mavQbrYd
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQ4jVQld5i
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps325Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9NaAdXbZHM
advancing so do their means of exploring.
