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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtq3eQAj4UQ
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3KaB6KJyC
greatness is known to all.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhcQRdRhMu
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNB8tRTjVv
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTeiwve7UK
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQ8AaJQ65y
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWoOhw422n
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2NHRyt4pk
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSUjboOXih
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoPxVzVY8lI
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZaZDLlARg
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQDuI23xzf
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdD3KrX1YvX
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlDs73DtJC
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWDZ6mftI5
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzn55op7qB
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGEg6ymOSp
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4B0DpBTJe0
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfRXuF0Iho
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgYPMd8sAe
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHc0BPp6ca9
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgKvt4b4LY
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItUErrf72B
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIpEP8bsCh
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEJfYxCFXb
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiEkEUz9fR
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnCHgIu8i6
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhuNh9vqsN
He is a dangerous man.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApdg9TtJr5
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2tKx8VCJl
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJIv7RhPPj
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9Kqt4jj9F
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVXa1xP1Zy
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCgxCxmxnA
starvation.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG01uYdfuZO
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGAOIHBVnU
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUzohgEnBJ
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQacQ5iwYY
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVn475gVrUK
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7rgQ8HOve
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmF0FultCus
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBkg0JIJTD
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9nDp0rebqB
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdH2R1URaV
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdalVndvDV
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfy5OfSAe0
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVavWrUagw
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeclZVR9FMy
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62mNvY5eYC
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQEsZRQdVF
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRzKJQQjGT
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzcbzR7IOF
and dark continents waiting to be explored.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQzPJVfeox
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcM3ilh4oUf
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSyyWVlw7J
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGZydmfYY4
advancing so do their means of exploring.
