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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRzt0mDh2b
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKa72lwI9k4
greatness is known to all.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxz3ITVR2oc
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULj2cojNNt
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKzR2uZjlo
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiJuS5TmR1
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUl57Tl11HJ
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEEKxSYvPH
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOAwPiMjI5
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPzR3Ga1Er
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbG1MOjbDgr
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL1cxeEuzQo
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJkyfGphZH
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YP4qdKz6U
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaln0op99j2
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLunuNv0GRC
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fhaxHVSep
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMV5Uwx7lW
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcP7deqoGN5
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpp4VjWKx3
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9nVCA4CtgF
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ992cbDEygs
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnjwvVG68w
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkMuFZtCVw
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGkOUZf8Be
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFoYrHYMkG
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GUt6ulRRA
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWp45GThHZ
He is a dangerous man.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNCU1kmcA7
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOLPaKb7v7
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UoIrio62Q
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEO32mT9BMk
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JN6IoXkOi
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgdzIZlYpJ
starvation.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQPaIQcyyP
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgN93D432l
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXTpAPAcsH
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbq6SW6omDM
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdRk9QVUjK
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMhC354gMgn
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNi7h9Gq07q
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YkzAN6fEf
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5Fpffzpjv
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23vOKNscdi
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUylJ3pinI
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HlHtt5WqP
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdN9lItNmHR
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNxmd8djeR
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40vuV836bZ
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IX9TZugpV
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6MxoKo51H
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpz1pbacM0i
and dark continents waiting to be explored.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOKISfUtjv
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9XZEc6bIV
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHShFgC1EZR
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcNLFda7gY
advancing so do their means of exploring.413Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mIhhbM17S
