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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAYvMQezEt
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UAisnsjyr
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjofzcMxhLk
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQU7mPXsY7H
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMwuKuVpHx
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKoIwEj9iw
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEmAGEwbL0
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcWptGNLKf
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPN7Bg0DNj0
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOYQFPax9q
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAZAUcy0gj
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkR0cCdse8R
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wBOhKrztn
meant to last.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzuZWYjjuO
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdO3IT55yUg
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpK3OLKd3KS
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszwOMxeyFZ
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBcHtNWoQk
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2PnNTWnCo
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvlmNXpLh27
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgFsJrtPET
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNwNaEY74V
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lvFkyvs7p
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rDiGeht3X
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MXZguMS6Q
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeNyYcwqxs
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmgRBmVKHG
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0rCmDyATA
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9aEeKcSEg
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4qqqekX72
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxL8Js0i2yU
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVCLsBLPgo
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAYKeoVp68K
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TxzGNApW9
equal rights.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WcdyabCis
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbiSbaTnDy
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPU6Wj8Ct6
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBpFHOW5Ik
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPrUsnebdr
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96ck9gSwxw
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJJE5UJVbG
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVanmOCebRe
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNJB9qijDu
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1oP50fJnb
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNl8OJRhdz
edge.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uePQJZiVG
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdc2KiIt5PI
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSM3FsbFbta
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLqpAFl14a
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfBWtBdmna
is this way even now.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBUznxfRUh
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkBp8E9vZu
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TfMKv4Z05
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeV9IJle63d
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdqsa6Y8y7
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uKM6Ugi5T
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
