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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPbXDcaA7a
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ116H3pLGwf
greatness is known to all.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVICBvQL1Ho
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiyHS1lMPZ
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJqbLxjMPw
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOJjZQX4wB
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr43gynB6QF
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNwqlHMkSo4
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUhlSXg1Fg
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWZ7VMrbGB
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPZNjPXXD8
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gSLicHS3u
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7lWEoY9d9
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRxNOH0WKO
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYWAv5jAx5
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDBiB99ZPT
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShMlMGaq12
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlUX6NIIU7
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0kWRDK8xF
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIfzjXVr9m
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0WNTbp0tW
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHAOY6r34G
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtkcjafdLi
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTin9Wll2Z
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazasal0pcy
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRNoEenNU4
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Sf3yLTVmN
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEslftHhEWB
He is a dangerous man.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNh3SGAFzY
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmLVJzTlEe
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTnYRM2MJv
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6QIAbrNfn
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RxobUkKZf
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTiisxB9CI
starvation.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5YdioDzDg
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1YhuUaCGD
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSl1s63DSn
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEItSNFEcdm
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqhO6mQrki
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLfqaeAIgX
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFCG2ygh6B
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Ze5gFGgaE
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkX8QFZl5q
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOAArDbPiL
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ARMvs1ZaF
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4PyTQozX3
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMIFSoGRtz
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2g6vGUCYE
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxbq71JYdc
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfn0XZt8mKY
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQScOKmyGz
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaBj8dcxweQ
and dark continents waiting to be explored.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrB3b6VqzM
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvGUwD92B5
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2L8FGHN3Lh
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdLjG8lySR
advancing so do their means of exploring.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFUVrG5vK8
