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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHSjiH2XMuf
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKrFnNPQ0a
greatness is known to all.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6R9mzu0R7
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyYHGIPmhth
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQu62Qn87K
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ18EBh5Yfi
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghxBySo6pp
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9P97QuKG8H
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylJ08QSOJ6
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15VV06hLDx
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cFoGZXZ7P
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIhfHHliy7
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAu5vGmfWLg
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVb3K2LsDk
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡErInB6oEqP
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWVu4jQhEV
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76TH1RskDN
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vQI3HKrKA
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4uboeS80T
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEw9EqpXOIf
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7DfMBe910
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfZU3PAzVL
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEzwbfhLuu
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtzLVIVvEa
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY92xqAQ2Nt
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtH2cQdzq82
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEEdGOIicTN
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEaRCPRp1g
He is a dangerous man.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0b3Kq9WeQ
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgRkmCXaph
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpye9uHJSV3
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0QCa0spA1
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLqBeRuEee
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieAwTncwqj
starvation.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRAOjHqdC9
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVeo2qmqWS
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUTjLZ3qnC
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoi9xIsrWv
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfdQ0f0FI7f
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1qoH0KSZU
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLa92YEG4oY
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLkRviYTv8
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BKTyuANBX
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSvFPSwDYh
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lRskCF01z
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXOtEGDjAk
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3p0086us9
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEPxT1aH7l
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsZ3VhhT4Z
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgmgJFfMHS
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LEjGW2c3Q
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfq54xVjHd
and dark continents waiting to be explored.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpCWEBV6LD
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGacUe4OqD
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYoiCwsUue
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitFDATrDvc
advancing so do their means of exploring.321Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrU5l7Q25PD
