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As it has been for generations, the Nharkim remain by far the most advanced race,132Please respect copyright.PENANACn0p0CZVE7
by quite the margin as anyone can tell just by looking at their city from far away - their132Please respect copyright.PENANAPXWLePX4nF
greatness is known to all.132Please respect copyright.PENANAvmo3LAEM9B
No other civilisation at this time can even come close to competing with them, and132Please respect copyright.PENANAPHTg7iGXyM
so his majesty Hervies the current Human king must push even more. He is ruthless132Please respect copyright.PENANAzvY0kgotPC
and carries much fear in his chest, more than any other ruler before him, and if his132Please respect copyright.PENANAPnC4RzSSen
heart is tight, the borders of his scruples extend far and wide.132Please respect copyright.PENANALgtSU7FEJh
There is nothing that the almighty Hervies will not do for his ambitions.132Please respect copyright.PENANAbQzAPM2nMz
The feelings of admiration and awe, of respect and fear towards anything Centra,132Please respect copyright.PENANAjJVlzcmxLp
have long been replaced by folly and greed, by petty and misguided ambitions.132Please respect copyright.PENANA6ipoB8LPvt
Perhaps nothing shows this better than the Human king’s efforts in his perpetual quest132Please respect copyright.PENANAAbF4xbx5fb
for his race to take the front seat. He and all under him have been doing whatever is132Please respect copyright.PENANAe8dux4WAMm
deemed necessary to not fall behind for generations. Hervies is just the next in line of132Please respect copyright.PENANAt9YXtldqDj
a long succession of rulers living in constant fear of what the Nharkim could do at any132Please respect copyright.PENANAxrVGiNevCk
time. But something makes him different however, and no other king that has come132Please respect copyright.PENANAJskGSAfEx0
before him has gone as far as he is willing to go. No other Human ruler before him has132Please respect copyright.PENANAy1bGBh26l0
had so much pressure felt upon his crown either.132Please respect copyright.PENANAXXY28c10TK
The Nharkim technology seems to grow almost exponentially, improving almost132Please respect copyright.PENANAENW9NPAn93
by the day and soon who... even now, can guess what they could be scheming?132Please respect copyright.PENANA4lLejCl8a0
The necessary measures must thus be taken even further than that, such as the constant132Please respect copyright.PENANAlegoT532B0
deployment of all sorts of scavenger teams to all the known corners of the world in132Please respect copyright.PENANAylA7ckxfuM
desperate attempts to try and uncover more Centra property. All in the hopes of finally132Please respect copyright.PENANAKfZbVpY84o
unveiling some of their biggest secrets, something that could give the Humans the132Please respect copyright.PENANAs1sfgRWQ5N
necessary advantage to at last take their place as the most powerful in all the lands.132Please respect copyright.PENANAPQUgeDmqZg
Hervies holds nothing back when it comes to achieving this; he is well known even by132Please respect copyright.PENANAw1XmQoaoRl
those outside his race, as a ruler with complete disregard towards anyone’s welfare and132Please respect copyright.PENANAOzgHxY2jCa
how much it might all cost. Time and again he has proven that he is more than willing132Please respect copyright.PENANA1HdTFFmvf5
to pour any amount of funds, and he has no restraints in raising taxes either to do so.132Please respect copyright.PENANA3eE1qotKvI
He is a dangerous man.132Please respect copyright.PENANAR4h2rWY2b0
Not just to others but also to himself. He is perhaps the most dangerous human132Please respect copyright.PENANAU9tw9qAi8l
to walk this world in quite some time. Desperation drives him and the fear he feels132Please respect copyright.PENANAa8OZwaltoP
himself, he has no qualms in casting upon others. With each passing day, he tightens132Please respect copyright.PENANAarosriGbk0
the noose around his own people’s neck; he demands skin and teeth from all the132Please respect copyright.PENANAUHxFXlTTkh
hard-working folk and quite the percentage of his kingdom are on the verge of132Please respect copyright.PENANAmb9wUl4ajg
starvation.132Please respect copyright.PENANAbqQxGvPQCe
Then he comes and offers insurmountable amounts of currency to anyone willing132Please respect copyright.PENANAPnmTgxN7gN
to do his bidding and in doing so, obviously, Hervies has no problem finding the132Please respect copyright.PENANAgj9ro41SUF
required man labour for the more outrageous efforts the Human kingdom is putting132Please respect copyright.PENANAyJBSBbFM3z
up these last years. For many years these desperate searches have been going on, for132Please respect copyright.PENANAbs9suCQo34
the slightest glimpse at any Centra secret and the Celitian Continent has been entirely132Please respect copyright.PENANAFm1uONXjdV
dug up three times over or so, it seems. They have searched any and all ruins, they132Please respect copyright.PENANAyuKGwqkKNn
have excavated the soil to the point of not even one more hole can be dug up. In their132Please respect copyright.PENANAW5TEOujz5u
efforts, they exhausted all the land around them and so the time came to look further.132Please respect copyright.PENANAvWVOEGQIbJ
The time to spread and send search teams outside the known charts, to venture forth132Please respect copyright.PENANABWVDpGJ1xw
into the unknown dark corners of the world that most are afraid to even mention132Please respect copyright.PENANAHpb1WZpBqE
let alone set foot in. This is how the “Cloudsiras” came to be, Human expeditions132Please respect copyright.PENANAfEOcfu7Mm9
hell-bent on finding and bringing back what their king values most. No other race is132Please respect copyright.PENANAaP1s05FMgL
known to do this, either because they don’t have the means to cross entire landmasses132Please respect copyright.PENANA237uIYB5yX
or because they don’t feel that desperate. Humans, however, are second only to the132Please respect copyright.PENANAX3T3uJe3bO
Nharkim so they can go anywhere. Their numerous airships can sometimes cover132Please respect copyright.PENANAwBSVHhNyYj
entire clouds and as for motivation, well, a man must eat, and their king offers plenty...132Please respect copyright.PENANAMctAoQsQIj
There is still much-uncharted territory across this bleak world, still many landmasses132Please respect copyright.PENANA7x0NQayjWY
and dark continents waiting to be explored.132Please respect copyright.PENANAsfu5plr1aa
So these Human Cloudsiras are always stretching their limits, increasing the size132Please respect copyright.PENANAW0x64Abaqu
of the known map, they are constantly pushing how far can they go; how much132Please respect copyright.PENANAUvhRwtYOBW
distance can they cover and how deep can they reach, for as Human technology keeps132Please respect copyright.PENANARsCHPtCm3Y
advancing so do their means of exploring.