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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzamnGj5wh
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYnlCYnP5K
greatness is known to all.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKKEP8DDhY
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMImQzOsWoi
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3vEvgZMCd
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSiD2JRt96j
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmQrOyWOUu
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuAhBwpaQ4
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRSDJF5BZr
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkD1IeS7aRJ
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbt2DIkbEMW
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAM1Kid1B9O
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS08CzgsIob
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGK0Eo380qf
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9wtZc3e6x
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BAeiwtSu5
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWE3AMRL4fG
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ftsNGdL8m
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLud26oGlU
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTiewqMYPS
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkIuMVwX1m
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSbMzg1ZbV
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yoNbMG0xA
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsgrplMKFs
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucsY4aJ1FE
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0P2Ug2oGcR
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgqIwd81oz
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZz77TBkMaH
He is a dangerous man.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcdMAmTRJ70
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQCrO2Pms9
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0lSAylYn6
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxFZwqPfvC
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJr2ZJa2yn6
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXVJTCT1ND
starvation.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5j4qHpJb7E
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36JwsU4Nx2
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHxSkB5h9l
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgS9AtSxkIA
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYwpRiuC0G
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Lflw42sm7
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVFwhR8AQ2
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKS3nbIzSV3
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBzjOlrymW
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNL6gKioY8
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvK6vuYoUy
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3v86lP7yD
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uINgkGXmA
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8VIvLGA7G
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHBoqhpyjW
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5UPWK036U
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuRpMFvMTA
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gGWLcXEeK
and dark continents waiting to be explored.393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFoYuJbfzwe
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiV5IEpEIB9
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeOLnaQQwf
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps393Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxMFfvsdce
advancing so do their means of exploring.
