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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡub0JjLBpVa
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Pw3yZIVqk
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQQnsahQ92
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvReX0MCY7w
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdZfHwBH1z
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsCPP75Mrh
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35fciHGvwz
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvC8DsuY91
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqvaXv3Kwv
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwo0h8NxDJ7
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9hm6l9T1r
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIs8tgrQUs
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZJw9vX1Zx
meant to last.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCpUEAvIdY
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDpL0fEWV9
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JJOR3y1qJ
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGveYoZCCj
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfs014oMh2
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbZGIn6ett
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpC71fPb0xT
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYSnIphsiH
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3xhxtBtyO
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtoZ3BOVkuG
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUpO0EYwGN
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoGHwCr1a2
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxoUdxnR3oe
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnpqv3jOpq
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCJAH8AU9E
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dRBgXBThz
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1VtNNdRQD
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfBCoaUUoc
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHYWAs9ptF
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZAMd8AZOo
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdUrfvfqsY
equal rights.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpK0YHB63Xb
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADNCercmK4
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrppWtYsmI
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJRaWv9YRD
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaZMAUSOnc
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezg7A02wZD
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI68chnIg7U
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52M0pYPw3O
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KPhJ4dpLs
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQgSjuFicf
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBObjHUxwd
edge.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3y9F4rQwOs
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YEtO4pckh
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRB2klwQZPw
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2B8mStbFJA
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEWPYV77yQ
is this way even now.373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXe286vYG35
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiePWLEyvIJ
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0KzUhvTmkt
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YjDrUzy0a
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejdHIJlzNj
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them373Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2gyALhFOp
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
