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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjmTn7y4SC
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9oZSs9e892
greatness is known to all.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGy4JuW4HMb
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLqwkrrtpz
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8agDCmOWHI
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp779wpc5XS
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0O39dR6TA5
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAXzVoovL4
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCXz2uzPiJ
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMXd3Npm3T
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2goGeE6Ar
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGSHRC0yOt
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthIaVHLDUK
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzS9bAGEqy
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfn7ZE1UT5
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSU4tN9GbS
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHGilkDxQI
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwd76tB1j0R
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStjchYnbl7
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpB138Nyw6r
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EOawwzUfN
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8SzdDKEYw
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsnUfAaqGc
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlupJJpcBw4
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUkBlq7jNS
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6AZXwK1O6
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdXKIXZcd3
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORBgmE8USX
He is a dangerous man.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4aCBB7yqy
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xBEgyDwbz
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoQdV9Zkl2
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcbFWMzwbO
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYl6TiuwlB
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mWabc7PNI
starvation.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ059RRfoXoy
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCoVjiqrMC8
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5buC3iF1F
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59Cpd4UpI5
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWBFmXPbVT
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3JR6X8zFb
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJP1l7Ucne3
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CCBny0rEE
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qcRsfbhqc
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnmvMwAfph
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRZNLCcvKx
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanfkBuezus
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXwcITJTdf
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrlV9J1pen
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCYvY632b3
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtE4f6qkpSM
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsDuQ1i6bc
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbATKj53Hl3
and dark continents waiting to be explored.343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYk8Wn9iKK0
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcQlhccv7j
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nvmLpk5OR
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps343Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpYOlUrcQeU
advancing so do their means of exploring.
