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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu250WbFP6G
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNcXvqWzf4
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuPjL7y0Hqy
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HeOhxnqdT
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiXIVAwTMI
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PnQHzIWDW
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8x0QArlXh
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn7PE8Q8HkZ
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡny9O0ZtHSv
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2xellDAnz
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4mFlki0B2
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfLRj4Owcw
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8uKz5uikM
meant to last.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ogt2bu7lm
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNZ7NHJPMy
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHA5LTDTG5I
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6lAOmo8T3
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhoFBvtgYH
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUV6xKexAc
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlxmeBmvAX
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbGndDQv0Q
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiefCmSVE15
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlX1DreXVA0
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYyo5MoDCk
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZ6OtRYCdJ
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnKRn2JpSH
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4ibtFcnfM
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqCva2pzID
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JnDgL1MlD
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEtC5kqeD2
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tN9Ur6VMw
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRuxDWl1yA
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovsUOTEbAh
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYGHMrD2QQ
equal rights.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZzEY12gUW
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWIEnt1oEv
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsTU4wCMWq
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHF7WJQlWnO
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLRYnfCls2
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5vsFhBzG0
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs80x60jCpR
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqYypIxytu
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPksHCN1EUz
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj86xU6rFgZ
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJCg0VQYIE
edge.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKtBXrSm1j9
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSFdZNhR8j
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplINunFSbZ
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdRrJ3pvYE
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdzJclojI8
is this way even now.365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCYTtiuRKN
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKrGQgrUaQ
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBKjqRWa9J
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7sEaGNWDHL
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqc1qG1Vvb
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them365Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemedkbWkDD
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
