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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lL2WATvZD
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbe0umu7Pnv
greatness is known to all.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufLoXL6TrR
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsymNB4Xyo
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqojOU0jlhM
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQv4L1VDKh
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiapHyFLba
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaV7BOiKyR
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhHmR4p8Co
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2MzOpJROc
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQBMLFrsRA
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwI7BNSIYgh
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bxEdJsFli
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMQmc7bml7
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZOCiwSUgo
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYyGlfl1mB
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFrhwU1y3e
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqqAmW54c3
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Isk6CzFu4
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzckuMVrm9a
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVk1dee8b69
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvPFyErndP
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCwomZzul2
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP49fvKYHxV
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOra1Ij6U6o
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0X5mHp26U7
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LpfwPhasM
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtcQyJYnQt
He is a dangerous man.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHj9a6bHhJ
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFNA99Eyz9
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOT33HoEgk
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87r00XKMJo
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgbXmq4PIb5
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLHld4KDqC
starvation.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZCSeZA5cf
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniBJDoHG9z
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyhtqDv7Pc
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6OhcrVkOj
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2GBoqgy8s
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFic7ORnan
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXmQ9O45Fj
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXtmnG901H
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7keeC0kl81
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalRf8FFueO
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQOpA5cG3P
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pV53UPW4M
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡntpT3zxNim
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyuy5zFgwZ
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQboRLgQIS
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2rsj7RqcS
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4DZWYWy4E
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfD04MU9qTJ
and dark continents waiting to be explored.232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1rYgcJNLr
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjFwvST9K6
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8Q3XBKWo1
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps232Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZxaHkv2jd
advancing so do their means of exploring.
