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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbq7tdLghIM
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3QPFJNhGE
greatness is known to all.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0LN0YEppN
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSeh1NxLia
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYh9Ch3Dnr9
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtw4TBOBlCY
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBIffFfQXB
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AoMAHesWd
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueu7JOiNsS
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjoRTdqAWNd
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCEFgaS7Gb
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIIQrtFniv
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJP6vRP3FE
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmIQf7cgDL
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvyHdzMmeF
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJMcvQLyHQ
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHAGFOS0zX
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IWrxrAY9q
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNKJvFO156
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWsoxVBF5i
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LpozZ6HWe
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMbIULqx3M
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLn1d7gNIRP
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcTIhgk3Sd
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vd1mwP6BC
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpX8RuOOli
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDYayGO0ba
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsc14SMyJh1
He is a dangerous man.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8IePPUpNC
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ziy2Xm4BF
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjk2c8Z08mN
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiJah63Src
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhC0KUrcYu
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYwJDkZWBX
starvation.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEmYDNkDYT
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS43XBJT2rN
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QfAVXghQB
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwhPdcQgg6R
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1SOzTOk7G
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mf51xftAv
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaenelR6Ibi
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70lDRYqpQ2
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnAvbB3a3a
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2A23DnAmlz
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQK770ZfQZ8
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9dzzENjvB
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwQ0eFl8Lx
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvaBpLv82CS
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshkPJNpyyP
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcMA37kzlE
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8OALyauvb
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCluH05Osp
and dark continents waiting to be explored.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZRHWiSMRO
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3jYinIRVB
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6AQSIlwI4
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIi9FxNHUdc
advancing so do their means of exploring.342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGf1MQrMQK
