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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ98CK0Wwl7b
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo7S0XkXfQT
greatness is known to all.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibdu2BysRT
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRbmSUOBh7
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJAIqdksws
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrEUqGdcDop
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7J2YhxT9K
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxC61HEVrg6
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOB0KvcliC
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XtuwNHVHr
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHlwDGiJQB
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9epYyoV2Lg
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlgQ6Eg2cU
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXR4ZtdQWxj
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnd3JimbyJP
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewD6s8ZJmv
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPnSkXxbXM
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzRS4pS3id
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwaZuXgTpCf
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlzOTAtUnp4
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKNJWsGDas
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNubQtGBkkk
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYKqnmUnxQ
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUL9qY4WVTt
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkL0fibAj0t
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqztlXkmWY
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsvtThWDhy
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTIiyuYvjF
He is a dangerous man.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3gSQ6ZOXw
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwLQZ8LKIM
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnHLwhIuU6y
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJSgJTz0vr
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SQGPSxF9l
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3HySqubwD
starvation.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDIXGvuI0D
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGeUECT1RMW
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanL18IrvLt
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8j9VvJdLSF
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLly4pfSiHF
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4r0FepO6c8
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JU9rtwIHt
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfphG16zb3
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6gLAp8PfP
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqK70xmStD
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80seSujjfu
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6rGWd8xJw
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYLbz9vlnF
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFby6XDhLS
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3peojSazrD
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTjWuVjEOj
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dtUF9ZRuQ
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Imczrujgh
and dark continents waiting to be explored.261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3juglzJExB
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKfLlKHCvQ
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTNLdj7RT3
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps261Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNiIzTkbda
advancing so do their means of exploring.
