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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qcAA34xlF
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYWGBDM0pb
greatness is known to all.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMWyPKe2eJ
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AwD6DjTVW
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7djmAUKf3P
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIYHlWFFA4
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCex8ynrqqt
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanwItChWKQ
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlukHWm5Cr9
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEqZ1GGYP4
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ko3JCUKa2
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKH8nrEDyJr
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBh13jZ048H
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZdYn3h1fg
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpUAqJkZwA
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1qxmMPfqs
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9blJi167Y
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqMXlEMUpz
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEEv3VJlFNp
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDcZoNSl0F
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfR1D1V1qo0
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMhXj5hfqP
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfm9hwzagu0
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpksVdmCn1
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3X9QjOmvQu
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmrxikWsm1
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtE0z25vKEC
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5A7nJSpn21
He is a dangerous man.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuXM24vc9n
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzkQulyTUD
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjvpWpJQvc
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYsY4mxIUL
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXl8IFK7nU
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaaGU8ns0A
starvation.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoa8W2pcxG
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFvHWqElar
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSSTkQyENI
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuN5RugxaC
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kDGbxVmBx
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKn9k8LM3G
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNY3HCvisf8
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7PGx4DGlU
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzInUfHqCQx
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2jpJJ0F8M
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsi2Vdo6iJ
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6k1ttTZ6wr
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3FZKWwSx6
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtmSzXVvpG
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVKEUNLs97
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SU0vZThoK
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5CSbSjoO0
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Mjitn0Y8T
and dark continents waiting to be explored.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyo3M7enVi
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawhhotf3HF
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHBzEw73vz
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDdewMrB6C
advancing so do their means of exploring.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Q9ZrcOJeM
