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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,126Please respect copyright.PENANAIPTo2cgFul
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their126Please respect copyright.PENANAHH8zapjS1k
greatness is known to all.126Please respect copyright.PENANAYSN5wZZs5X
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and126Please respect copyright.PENANAiEbYNWfhze
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless126Please respect copyright.PENANAMf8NkmV6tB
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his126Please respect copyright.PENANAeZOYL4bMs2
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.126Please respect copyright.PENANA26alRiPbmE
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.126Please respect copyright.PENANA7vEUwh3FgX
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,126Please respect copyright.PENANAayQV4rqW77
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.126Please respect copyright.PENANASL2wP6JxjC
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest126Please respect copyright.PENANAWGbwD6AXeU
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is126Please respect copyright.PENANAdZ56gxmhsn
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of126Please respect copyright.PENANAFuLtktKV64
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any126Please respect copyright.PENANA7m7DkiBDDQ
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come126Please respect copyright.PENANASHu0zbPmeE
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has126Please respect copyright.PENANAs9O8bARPQn
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.126Please respect copyright.PENANAfj1HsaCJC1
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost126Please respect copyright.PENANAwl3iwzTPpp
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?126Please respect copyright.PENANAbzZNw131cC
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant126Please respect copyright.PENANA6zj2WZYOY6
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in126Please respect copyright.PENANANcO7t4gDyr
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally126Please respect copyright.PENANAEkodPfzQLv
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the126Please respect copyright.PENANAlVRUlZKoHr
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.126Please respect copyright.PENANAQ6FN5pr4r8
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by126Please respect copyright.PENANA85mHAEiRvU
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and126Please respect copyright.PENANActhfgjxVPz
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing126Please respect copyright.PENANARoLj2f0csG
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.126Please respect copyright.PENANAvmrCyARO46
He is a dangerous man.126Please respect copyright.PENANAWTvSwxHbhn
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human126Please respect copyright.PENANALt2d5zEm0e
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels126Please respect copyright.PENANAX0lMjSJCkQ
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens126Please respect copyright.PENANAZnqWwyDbGn
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the126Please respect copyright.PENANA45evTC0AuN
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of126Please respect copyright.PENANAFESCrKODfM
starvation.126Please respect copyright.PENANApTXFt6S2bw
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing126Please respect copyright.PENANABCOnW8cM1J
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the126Please respect copyright.PENANAbln4oEZ57Q
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting126Please respect copyright.PENANA5dXbCssrLW
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for126Please respect copyright.PENANAFewDVQboFu
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely126Please respect copyright.PENANAqSvnwe14Y9
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they126Please respect copyright.PENANAHfyOxUSDGy
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their126Please respect copyright.PENANAPIzgYCtpFH
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.126Please respect copyright.PENANAnD4QzsqMNB
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth126Please respect copyright.PENANAIlRracVvZ1
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention126Please respect copyright.PENANA2R0Hn6zjtS
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions126Please respect copyright.PENANAqj7a2EvUlD
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is126Please respect copyright.PENANApKOAFFg2L0
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses126Please respect copyright.PENANAs9KGEJDIUX
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the126Please respect copyright.PENANAy0q2eDc7p7
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover126Please respect copyright.PENANApfe92FbjuL
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...126Please respect copyright.PENANAIa6md4ogSv
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses126Please respect copyright.PENANAOYVfIMCEBw
and dark continents waiting to be explored.126Please respect copyright.PENANAkROr7iafkQ
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size126Please respect copyright.PENANAqXiO3nhFuK
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much126Please respect copyright.PENANAKlyWnAHSYE
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps126Please respect copyright.PENANAHJOJrqTo3y
advancing so do their means of exploring.