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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAAEUKOswc
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUioUAUgUPa
greatness is known to all.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjZLyccSrM
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhBp7qjWB9
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oXnUGd1JL
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDkwfoP2jA
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpTLjq8Cax
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdnybVdiSf
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBfOnYLWWK
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWYT1ULOSH
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCG1lkFHoW
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuYf6YF39Z
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLS5qgCTQeN
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4aLJRxAnVz
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIr13wt5kT
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmalui3HOH
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaq3NMp1WT
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdu5S9q6AQ0
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLzF5S6SDy
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTx1VtxN8AJ
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡac9Olrs127
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xYCBJwB9I
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEX98P18yo7
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdK06CjPBH9
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VVaBRg33y
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOkmhlfCc2
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39Svo8Tc1L
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9pCiwKtvK
He is a dangerous man.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNf3sSpYIio
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4dD2sZypq
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡad7YnNyZpH
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzDqDHQKFx
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCtHO7GfNJ
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDk150Ng2Tv
starvation.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxQB0DvtVL
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbVH3qDLhv
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXkrkpdFiu
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡht2iiHpZIC
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTIDGOpN9e
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡReC8snd6TH
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MWXdl0dcH
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62abxfnEf8
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8acXTVoa8d
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdhWcZpkDP
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXT12CzV5au
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5BS9WS4WR
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4RQhlX1MJ
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYQEEtxRzI
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvdg8077AD
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMnytPXXxI
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBueDGjnd7
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqP7rOKqelG
and dark continents waiting to be explored.341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpwuboq1wM
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NmNDP47JO
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5oRcz7rVB
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps341Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1GExhBWoA
advancing so do their means of exploring.
