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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQYey4pxkc
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6jpQ5MwDs
greatness is known to all.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD99RigWQUq
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbNh5uu9km
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7GKxmJIaH
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMQjZmcMB2
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVhoLIlbfd
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6dosoWyk9
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHIjVjtseu
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5DMhtG0XY
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSVzrlSXtj
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTpyWVyCvd
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKL4iOfzjFb
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8sOIFKJXE
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJI6ijaRoR
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXoDyQHTph
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfnVlkrWAiw
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaOOBjHO2z
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8RyUJJGrk
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpa1C3Vxau
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ271X0ZNZlX
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOS9aMRoZaa
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb8BvzGZQqH
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsirp1JwBIs
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JPj9VAU5D
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjp80pOLN5
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYHqRfP6VP
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3mh59hFG9
He is a dangerous man.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0h0oIg1qq
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboZuMkzkWs
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQCmJpXbNF9
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWu4opOFWgs
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqu9Uko5w5s
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UnTG1VTL8
starvation.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNYPVGvGWX
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4DwwQJHvM
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxlCBtocHd
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzMlYaXsig
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh283aOexrV
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbff7YVEKUj
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxSkDhy81b
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFe9q7pVDi
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXUFYZEnmb
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEjV2TKP2X
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvlRQCBfncN
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnDF8RUpmr
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnq1GPX3fGm
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjv4r0WJNZ
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjP7JdSmZwn
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bNoDXTIoN
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIUx2N3Ykq
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZNK8uD9GQ
and dark continents waiting to be explored.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnuc5WLNzFL
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxEvDtdoqE
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWqvNxqxXQ
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8D5PMRfWS
advancing so do their means of exploring.378Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpl5qthY96
