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 ntering the enormous mountainous zone in
the centre of Asia, crossed by the great mountain range of the Himalayas,
there is a series of mysterious and disquieting legends. The Yeti,
the valley of Eternal Youth and the monastery where Universal Culture
is kept are only a small part of the stories that are going the round.
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- One of these legends, perhaps the
less known, talks about a peculiar country that
existed hundreds of years ago. It was a vast
valley completely surrounded by highest
mountains, that contained a permanent cloud
layer. Over this layer there were mountainous
masses that excelled forming plateaus, valleys,
rivers and an enormous lake. Some peaks that
arose isolated looked like islands in the middle
of a cottony and white sea. Its climate was not
the glacial cold that corresponded to so high
level, but warm and pleasant, without doubt
regulated by the exceptional geologic
configuration.
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- In this country of the heights
bloomed a civilisation that had a surprising
particularity: their inhabitants moved mounted in
flying dragons. It seems to be that the freezing
that motivated the disappearance of dinosaurs in
the Earth did not affect this closed valley and
flying reptiles evolved towards more perfect
forms, being finally domesticated by the settlers
of the country. These reptiles must have been
presumably seen in different parts of the planet,
rising medieval legends and numberless popular
stories as much in East as in the West.
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- The inhabitants of the Country of
Permanent Clouds had followed a parallel
development in what respects to the rest of the
terrestrial civilisations, and towards year one
thousand of our Era is when we should locate the
adventures of our hero, a fortune soldier known
as " the Mercenary ".
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