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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQnOMhtVJWD
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJgJaHDs6F
greatness is known to all.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFOANFrg2k
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8qMY1ieKM
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIo9F9mvM2c
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85jLpYDvJ8
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSz19QqI68
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEa9P4ikZf
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPxMUQyRWt
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3KYCDHkQi
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaJi64xecm
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mX6w9zZkC
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyy921STHez
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMeoFTt5Gtm
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡju38NF1agG
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rlpFCadeE
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ310x1zFxeI
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qA2DpRba4
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUiS579chN
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SjpmbZlEy
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiXLjziRVd
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfoG7Yk6L3
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbr3t3QirSJ
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0d8pXeIb8e
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1BcJ6KLLH9
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpoySxFR9I
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjf2OpHjvc2
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcImo6UamU
He is a dangerous man.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4lVZpXT0V
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9ca8AH4bl
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1L4xc236el
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoh8xLBv0UC
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5KPTIWpRy
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPgHjnLGCS
starvation.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJovdc6OIi
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjWjKx9AgCF
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLeR9bYC1u
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUEs3gdi6X
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5CyrfDoLf
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnE2koGE6bh
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFU1jbXhlft
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHljyHROHJ
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUkgvv2VbOf
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJF1MVGLd4
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0qHecYeAD5
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIACukIiySq
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOBrq1Q8xb
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8eLAsjE2X
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndysAuvjNT
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkks0jSPMw
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplWSxfWHVh
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRj9lgotTG
and dark continents waiting to be explored.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnnFjyRwot
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfVFznGB9m
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL388mJadqy
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgg9dT9y4kp
advancing so do their means of exploring.250Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09S6RSRXxX
