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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkKsXYuCB5
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEB6cDcYO6u
greatness is known to all.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQh6DPUOd7
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8NZnySnFe
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSVxaPqMTv
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZf6MB4qoez
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbvTCQo7iE
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOeInu91OAI
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBTn4cf8NFB
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LJTb8uGSj
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGu1NbQ5xfZ
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhh9vwrCH6
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPlU0A6pIPq
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUnp0BeOXCQ
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEWypMm5O6
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIB7NNyhAm5
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxVW1ltyiQ
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2QsXfQOrB
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuICGgA92CW
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBlP0JIlin
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOEeggbmqp
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZ4p1iKvsM
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QO0gE67WG
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EXfyzWP2v
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqTB3Sqvaq
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkIPR4ANtFY
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpfCm8gGwO
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbWlGSLZiD
He is a dangerous man.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSh9ik4joa
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3uqkBazcM
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkr1ykv5N1
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMOF5mZk3Qs
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7xjjApOYl
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84xe2e8eLu
starvation.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTYIAkaqGf
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuAcylYrDQ
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Vc9C5Uttj
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAyW8PP98F
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCj4IXGwrjg
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVuNja00aiJ
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IeYMHDIlK
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIRrOBcQU7
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8e4POIWX2
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHXnCb3DDs
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9R7ABRGwTr
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYw1DztVmj
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMr79NeDC3J
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaskBCcBgA
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwevs6PbJ8
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOO3iidtBS8
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡus5Zu0NQTq
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNax99evCes
and dark continents waiting to be explored.363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrxn5zBVsw
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡedPmEAWbhG
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mGKStOice
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps363Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvj6u1VUHc1
advancing so do their means of exploring.
