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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRsIMVYzwA
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qbfP10tMo
greatness is known to all.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMEG6JBzPY
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5NK30JCww
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPYOqWa20r
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6k0OMJefE
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ956Go1j1SJ
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjB6k3Vi0c
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmkU4Y5yWm
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogeGmgzAmh
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItJJ6Q8o0o
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFGGgmsAUv
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrG8cSLbPc
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYObCLfelgb
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHO8a6YpP1
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDPfsJR8PX
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoLYeVdYrX
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUa4Fhm30Uh
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3b3G6tU0SW
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7hsJRqmIIe
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnOZLkpcpT
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMuWNFmDNE
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TcflaoKnh
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KXSflVnZ1
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBHeHxwrWX
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfC9EKtds2
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQERYo4XP58
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmR6fsu4V9
He is a dangerous man.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDb65jIHRm0
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsPwtsLe3E
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lvernyKdl
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7zSINm5W0
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXkRJS8llW
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDdGSlRw6uR
starvation.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJSP5iqJni
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvkuvoXCT9
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ499Ne9Vo9W
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwF3VhzvcPa
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsgh88DyEa
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8RbZIGp02
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwf2MU7z24q
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFbvI14Kui
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1K2jk5Nba
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡao2m9UkuBa
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBWtaMnmJZ
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYamG4v4AS
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIl79GLRyr
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFPwcUgfxj
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyr3EHB1Ox
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXpkqa1vXX
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2v1m83mU9f
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5QL3oc9xB
and dark continents waiting to be explored.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOt0HNTSiK
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYht9Bk0weF
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEyr1voTK4X
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowdUUR3h1g
advancing so do their means of exploring.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOCVfhgw5t
