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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQm5xsYpbmC
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzEx0M5PiXE
greatness is known to all.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdu97ATFOPm
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGjyNIjfug
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Yp9lmT2lG
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PY0nq4PE1
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvubem9xSK7
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMdO4hJYAd
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwzM5uEI7C
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2DTmgnaBg
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTC4AbVm7Z
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwm8WEyw9Pk
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSaEM1Fon2v
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCL6VBAjAG
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBSquQfHo5L
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGLOc6ZGsp
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3bHmNltfS
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh80Cbo01nu
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKX5kz0IL1i
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NdWeLyklf
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgL30A2HssD
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGziGGr6yU
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGecVFZD1ev
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJpfxdmZYP
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaObNa950kp
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnA7YjGVjSH
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jYimPbCu0
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFl9UITNmx
He is a dangerous man.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5AwCKtHSfs
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBDsFtEd45
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1YdLn8rQz
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXDr2pgVEN
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkB6NWK5OTK
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SkzpZacq3
starvation.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8si1pYCuh
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHGQHGenZB
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSBbSHaM4s
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCo2ys3Eos
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvPbXQKXJL
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnss7pvJzxB
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP10GkmCJCf
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8nnr6dkY7
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjN00SxlgF
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTwTEiMCsa
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPn0a2yJM8
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6FwBhYCv6
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfG862H2P60
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vBBwwLJHI
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OwxVqNWBG
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bIQGG5c4P
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvCOtmza4w
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfJ2mgmo0D
and dark continents waiting to be explored.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8L9bN7EF9
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwEZybs8mH
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUdRgMhLiO
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0u0r6Q7Mk6
advancing so do their means of exploring.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTvgn7tR3y
