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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aB82UwARd
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniJsdYlWxe
greatness is known to all.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2k4GGxsFo
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mHL0V42qJ
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhNzDX9GUm
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gvAKt0HPP
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQ1vLfWWgC
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjD9SowuX5
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ylV24bHy4
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETIXGeUR2c
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGVMmZE4mO
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUBCgf2vaD
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeWTq9w5NJ
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILFqTGcOUr
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3ClSdmNZp
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Cr3dpdfAZ
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwS17Bd7TAX
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iaAsBXBfS
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IuYFUPQ6s
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCWQJlr5aLL
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqFU2sn6cR
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAG2Ke6Qey
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cYZ8rtfhm
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wVBIbpS8L
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqfBs8e8Gd
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5u3Ug2rqv
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKSKOfvRwN
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ249ditjHL0
He is a dangerous man.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7spnK1Yt8B
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBqvnBfkTj
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8B47hsduQ
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsmKVr1v60
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQProoRzEry
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Deyq3p6QM
starvation.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡph9mCCdUGz
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZmm1z7OzR
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCNJ3efRRW
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FJr2KPWN7
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ijHyFajhx
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjnti5gJVv
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJ2aM9ct6T
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEtnh88kl7
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWmCXchMV2
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dHAcnzlPf
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI1OaFFoglG
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iouPqVPmz
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPR5XacqCG0
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxVaMCmfke
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefIkMUhYW3
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4W2lb1UTB2
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPwngx3nLk
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwp2nFLdkXV
and dark continents waiting to be explored.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkHT4OcqkF
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotv6DfHawB
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgojGZPREYg
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAAnKHO5kZ
advancing so do their means of exploring.309Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZDQCW9zvA
