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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBVM9NaEyS
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFY6dseXPH
greatness is known to all.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIypYt39SRu
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQeNETMn0x
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcqGGE0pay
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4FIYeDAd5
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRFj5hNMCF
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnvqIzGK9CA
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxukjbjdLD
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLD3Zt2x3lz
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVTRPiHtnp
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzIDH5NSNN
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdN4i0QUzHL
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeyfXto3Hg
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgH6XAw5Uw
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXnoEsVRiz
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU1IMrLkKgs
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxHolkNN1e
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHmwcPMvcW
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8S7fu4gtLF
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDN9enAHLH
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryDFrhEHkV
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsE6iuahVK
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEhb25Ny1R
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdyloce5mqj
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWXJLwngMC
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORfBnbMOhu
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZP7zXvIwB
He is a dangerous man.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13jJ5XiXVb
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsyeD99xd9
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHKXdDC9EY
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9y88gpT1HM
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡao5GI8Kfd1
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nP9uajAO9
starvation.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Sr0Sfq3Ws
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbArCSyn9hQ
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjjm2QJhMQ
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGxNbM3sAx
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuAN9CHCZK
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAv1W1QKV9
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfedJx6WD9F
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RZL9hNlZs
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5lDEBimgj
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0E1OjWgh2j
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGTGCoxvib
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7rFsEDgT4
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfdlLN3ScTy
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7xc8mTKqt
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTKERHOnsQ
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrqCw8NFV9
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxZM1sFZs5
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0PVLlBeJC
and dark continents waiting to be explored.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡonkTQRqkup
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgqCmUxLm4
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbcSanhYHjb
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuViHFbl9b
advancing so do their means of exploring.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0kodhWFUV
