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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2ETmJflwR
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5V0B4eIjkF
greatness is known to all.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjUJIwwq3q
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcsmWhsxrq
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IQY2DJ68T
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6ldJikdPf
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSX6opv3do
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDvQ3odQeF
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPah4BVixG
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenLhvz5eVQ
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoJedJ3pKj
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLx8PEZpxkT
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ67FbQMFrOa
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQbxarXSdSu
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfHRTYk4rB
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXC1s87Ulua
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKsESyQk7H
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7qBorsgOV
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4KMZ4M6EYY
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzQHyE7Bg4
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWIoV7Ffyj
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NJ9IqUXiP
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQx0qG8AD9e
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRrSekss3tf
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07b1GkVh49
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5bAVUHpXC
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02RfQzLc1U
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGaYuvUxdX
He is a dangerous man.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoUBcP6l7P
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15xOvz0sof
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKITp5YBjt
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PKsenZQNH
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2sqJiRxAf
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhiPCyTGd9
starvation.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNzgolgSok
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtdKDRyA6Y
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3e7qkAxSvv
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjP3SAUQos
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rDJYM8CXj
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbXLkI5GeZ
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEf93qRoiR
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTiEXrKteP
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6tFQKdI5x
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfIXlJuiaD
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmedGkcLff
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWmgZ74LVV
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3G8C1KC41f
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbzL97a1H6
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxrmw69CFV
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcCX6HMLmg
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PK4xpTwCx
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZr8PauKiD
and dark continents waiting to be explored.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJxzxvHmseQ
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfzE8CRnRW
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjRBD0bUEA
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7Apbrmmz8
advancing so do their means of exploring.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfrYsMD3Ad
