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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzztAVMMs0C
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQlEj23f5y
greatness is known to all.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDydazdj4HC
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAw7BTpKhp0
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufqx2cPZNP
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetsGZqbE19
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqh0EKm4Pv
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaSfCfIhsPi
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWm2cXNGvvD
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35z0uSH49I
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu1A4uFN8vL
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZeaK91VGPp
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MPX0Oap0E
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YwGUINjRe
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhyBeHGpBVp
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNVSmxrTBl
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEB69iwLse
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMVV2CZwCT
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlk2fm8aHf
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡck7xoCipIN
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORQJQoMRKQ
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxIY0418yv
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBWgHUQGAJ
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqF0PZ4KLs
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1u5CIFrGn
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXSWrJ9tZK
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtm8ZpwOaT
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzg09741Wn
He is a dangerous man.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63Vh2H1kI0
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6iAnmYxHx
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vHTqKPCA5
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrX6aJZLklC
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZLGbvfc1g
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywh9ZmqcCb
starvation.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhNELRdEvs
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOe83LHkf9N
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVD0B42EXX
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ywtZDnlS4
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwe97AAYChk
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5j8NXxKnrJ
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsqvvnsTYJ
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDzVp6Tx3c
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxshQwZpCK
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEXtKzv9nG
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvdpuJ8xWB
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VCNoZxXrS
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKS1LDctve
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuoawXyEzr
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcHqFxwgCM
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXV4rRdAjXw
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqv5Sm9PLRV
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEVaNK0j4h8
and dark continents waiting to be explored.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONELnv0uzW
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jvvuq9qvD
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9cz9c6DGQ
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyB3II4mXtp
advancing so do their means of exploring.336Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXapMbSgRXq
