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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHw4mVT8GN
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47Hyrxgxhw
greatness is known to all.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGNjSHbbA2
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkC6dngYeMB
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6k4JpQm8E0
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡreUsvDqTbK
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZATjXd8XM
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfadnwi0bQ
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFIlTlxT1T
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTFWzHONRx
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfa85dzbgtJ
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnQfVdLnu5
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXI4nr6omSq
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3IdOsV3zv
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnoglsouy6a
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOuyk7p8M1w
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YM9Lg9EZx
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2mUOHkgec
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WCjLjhvm2
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1lZhm6w31
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYpmkH9OD5
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWsARUYnm8
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcsaLYhWjS
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOVVcjKT0T
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4u0eWTZRY
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpz5ExnLN9Q
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMusLxaLSua
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgdlqN6E49
He is a dangerous man.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4v7c1RWoA
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAfvCemgDR
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoHZl0buLy
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz4EAp64lbh
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhUwowySyB
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8qiOMQ1yt
starvation.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wEbS8Qqxj
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOAkCqQueK
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw01GmhJfL1
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdlLPigAg7
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70oWIVvbN4
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZiPCNrBP97
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlDBfzJXLL
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbsD31y5vyG
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQDhmIHFGk
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7i4vBsHbCD
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KFrGOxdZQ
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROhFrxVu6r
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCY1dqqIIy
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqte8f12xLY
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXfYbdOvhX
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSM60PfhKy2
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlx0B8AObeR
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUk8GCUnnVh
and dark continents waiting to be explored.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2Xbr6sGnd
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Jhnegtg0Y
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MlOmnxlt5
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA4pDi6Vscc
advancing so do their means of exploring.
