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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKvv6x6t6d
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4eIei9DG7
greatness is known to all.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGF37hGMMzG
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkKv7mVjZr
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVK7pVP0J2
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7XChf2bSR
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOX6T2kjFS
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMOsql3iQTZ
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5zo0FtoOl
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJflGng588
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmw4ZFdGMK8
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANaNvdPknA
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPxNqYwG7G4
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPln1L162W
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXmmMRNrci
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7X9wJDYkKS
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXGaJnMIC8M
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNnY44hNfU
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bR3eUpgxd
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRCiJ7LXag
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7aI5afnjj
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9O9EwbjvrQ
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CdZAK9GuF
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZQpjpbaq1
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFMCqLFOs2
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkAYboTLS1
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgtaFdkMN9
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5R122A6bN
He is a dangerous man.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SSahmknpb
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaf819X1akz
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3FgfUUS8Q
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88Z0T1SuI3
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdF9Eihhgqz
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJlaIj2bit
starvation.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVq7EwauCTx
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudxvh2PJoI
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtR62KEgSbK
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0hQfXkSngT
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE68qt9LU1O
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NsMvHmI6z
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmz0O58PQS
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBCNNQAcAS
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KHIQDcAQ1
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrcbsDaWKP3
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMgEqHhizA
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6hPOlwHhD3
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6v2YHQHEAk
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbroaMZhhAs
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0j2W1YMHKU
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlTa2p28Wv
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgjN4nnbBu
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOhU7AAWVO
and dark continents waiting to be explored.266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKPj5gifeq
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKn1pZV5DL
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzG5pN4CYw
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps266Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJLsXhGX4F
advancing so do their means of exploring.
