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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,124Please respect copyright.PENANAvNxaOga7wk
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their124Please respect copyright.PENANAQC5FhrogQO
greatness is known to all.124Please respect copyright.PENANAu5GYQsmRoc
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and124Please respect copyright.PENANAjey1qRzPvd
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless124Please respect copyright.PENANAhSTOrGEn0w
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his124Please respect copyright.PENANAHe2thyNJRy
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.124Please respect copyright.PENANAymLarTFcsX
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.124Please respect copyright.PENANANQShLr0nZv
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,124Please respect copyright.PENANAL9BkPiS91C
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.124Please respect copyright.PENANACMQW51dQ2r
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest124Please respect copyright.PENANAsYYs33uqN6
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is124Please respect copyright.PENANAiSteVGizER
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of124Please respect copyright.PENANAgPjZfD5MGI
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any124Please respect copyright.PENANACZXwVdrjon
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come124Please respect copyright.PENANA1MSKchr2yh
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has124Please respect copyright.PENANASL3FKekRKW
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.124Please respect copyright.PENANAfeUke68yUA
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost124Please respect copyright.PENANAtG7ZKLmjTa
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?124Please respect copyright.PENANAkIfQ90RFYM
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant124Please respect copyright.PENANAL731wIlemN
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in124Please respect copyright.PENANAIVlzmQwUHz
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally124Please respect copyright.PENANA1KdrRZiwYf
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the124Please respect copyright.PENANAyzco8dWkKQ
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.124Please respect copyright.PENANAVE0a2ArfZK
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by124Please respect copyright.PENANAMGPUpafiyW
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and124Please respect copyright.PENANAfGXc0FvVwU
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing124Please respect copyright.PENANAgfpGVBzyRH
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.124Please respect copyright.PENANAYrRmyZoNNN
He is a dangerous man.124Please respect copyright.PENANA41pqFhg6eW
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human124Please respect copyright.PENANACCMl1IincC
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels124Please respect copyright.PENANATKQrZfuocj
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens124Please respect copyright.PENANANuU11VXeeH
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the124Please respect copyright.PENANAwpTamc58Ua
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of124Please respect copyright.PENANAuCdYqxwwNf
starvation.124Please respect copyright.PENANAz6Vrw4TyRH
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing124Please respect copyright.PENANATlVmFfpjhb
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the124Please respect copyright.PENANA1kAFD7vQUv
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting124Please respect copyright.PENANAjVbC2YFLHZ
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for124Please respect copyright.PENANAKxv8smoYbo
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely124Please respect copyright.PENANAgftkwtMNw3
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they124Please respect copyright.PENANAp6sxlPlxho
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their124Please respect copyright.PENANAWGewkl5cGK
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.124Please respect copyright.PENANAkvvOxTAhCu
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth124Please respect copyright.PENANAbvy1Dkh6yE
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention124Please respect copyright.PENANA1xcBHcIsGm
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions124Please respect copyright.PENANADJ9nLMq1FJ
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is124Please respect copyright.PENANAjJ8It8CNFL
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses124Please respect copyright.PENANA75roIrDEVE
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the124Please respect copyright.PENANAdzWFl0e3NH
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover124Please respect copyright.PENANALZC2dx0CIR
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...124Please respect copyright.PENANAUrmaxoJyt2
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses124Please respect copyright.PENANAXhrVI54kMu
and dark continents waiting to be explored.124Please respect copyright.PENANAkPACLg0bbX
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size124Please respect copyright.PENANAMiAoiJMz2P
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much124Please respect copyright.PENANApFGg65ZHNe
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps124Please respect copyright.PENANA8xcG3K7GDU
advancing so do their means of exploring.