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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXnUX8ni7hn
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIONychRFd
greatness is known to all.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnxT8UAAQc
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTceSFD5w2M
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjy3ZD3cL71
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCsvbIiSKVn
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfns3W5JQKe
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlJNonXgbh
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91Y5zhB352
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbR3VyhPvFT
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLi1qvLzqi
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmntiqFrBor
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhInRjPSGB2
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmbWxXYzDb
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCtU4COkxh
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXBbsViTPd
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0xN0osy98
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡindFLEttHt
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhsOoeaiOJ
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAkaTNTTtm
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLn6ymVDNJ
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHb1aRpDzM
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYcqwLyAdO
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTFQ5DxXIU
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nrcdX0nt7
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjvKHfNTYn
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVj9tNLe8wV
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZPaDbEcsw
He is a dangerous man.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZTTkggE9L
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShE1gWWbXJ
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcrwSSDdpPH
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIMrcFgezj
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4m4K95AhL
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZN4br0lvD
starvation.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgKNBH0F2X
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEboJbCbU8
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrQVGqXprG
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1w9bR7FjJR
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxomVNNDpXf
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzc11OsMrLA
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcZnNfZa3H
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUBTH3GwcG
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88yU2u8rQu
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulOjgZB4u3
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QDL1TrKYK
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡooSPOXialv
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsf6P7W2ad
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypdrq3ZHr2
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Z06OvLYQs
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uavrWWhmi
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9iudv6CWS
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhElOUZ6sYc
and dark continents waiting to be explored.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLC5qya9V0U
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uupJeL3rh
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQsJjw32FE
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAm4Tuz0fs
advancing so do their means of exploring.409Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XFRTGJ9xm
