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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAXtqitp9b
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhJLiKxbG4
greatness is known to all.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9VG3EJz8K
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2eRIfUL63
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXq5rQZNTSd
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycO11OcF9r
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAeR9my1qZq
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EaWu0nddF
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qPm9KCV2X
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWl5u2vwNpw
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04uz1o5QYI
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRPcFbTIaH
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76VmgNm12B
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80MyPx6zu3
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTmmVke9wo
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFRMHiiCJ0
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRKCe6Tymz
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu6sDJyC69c
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AjS7K8Pw0
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdRrB32rsQ
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGUS7NJpBmK
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtfIt59YNL
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wYpE2xRRf
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzdDuqSqTn
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17KaKdbX3b
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5MzE2Cxlt
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL05wK4oWXU
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPxkYxVb92
He is a dangerous man.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRXwMsa21z
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5piQRTIFw
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpbU8jW3qb
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5Q9i8Ct7G
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIYD4S80mb
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bOddA34AY
starvation.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZhH2aoVGO
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypYDh4OVZi
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctB7LggBlE
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGrvhCRgwg
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSHSIoLkGK
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkF0eT9qbl6
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmctCKue3gr
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVtAYXXGCR
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwufIi4GmYc
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcylJU2vFuJ
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggkpuLKSbK
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZzSUIbkgY
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvNbwhBOVV
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu98TbXr6B2
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkR2xQ97RK
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1Nkl6tOh3
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagSBBttioW
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdL5APq9u8
and dark continents waiting to be explored.317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pruNH3WVC
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBQZEe7UfX
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1U71ox5Ys
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps317Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bzVCG6VUl
advancing so do their means of exploring.
