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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJp0GAbmW4Y
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjNA1B5ksa
greatness is known to all.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMcs2GzHiD8
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxU1ee7DLI
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWzrxho18m
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTueIv6TnD
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGy9fC9RVW
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGRqnknFhh
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9dMjvZXft
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrzN0LJrea
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlFcV0GMWs
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPVSoLlY56b
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOV3ha5dXxN
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IQNajtpgs
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfD0s9NBJNI
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx95qjtt0mr
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbCN6anY6l
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqKm13Yhh5
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ951nyusza0
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpRqS6Lesu
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTEziLu4wx
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6wdpe8XPu
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZf56M2peoL
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8l4U46NAp
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zkHBJG0PG
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYYl6nM4mg
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMI7AWaikj
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWkjFHVhZb
He is a dangerous man.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNwYaEkHw5
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiFYjsLEHm
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFDEqL4N4d
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMijmCRLkg
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8jKiEACts
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGdeT4Mvet
starvation.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFiStXUTcY
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4t5UEM85wE
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxXJhgjWMS
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHvEUrhiqx
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfmsyOSGaj
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYExMDZPNQj
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRi9m6vTcX
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvm3h66KWVG
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXT5YZvO134
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22oLISVLok
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX7GH5Zg0nj
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjPgkhTk5N
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0ZduBFKxf
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyXSmBKFVi
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHpyW0QcBv
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSlcBWFsM6
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdnUwDqBik
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25woD2IVWZ
and dark continents waiting to be explored.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TN6CbvAco
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmEy6GI5tN
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiZOjuiD07
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKJMy1hH7I
advancing so do their means of exploring.408Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArvB1HiO2g
