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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4xk78zxYP
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2oodRfXyq
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTEb1Ss9JO
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8SQKYnYvS
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbA7Zy87QOT
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrj1CGkeLvV
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVwu2tYimd
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6FwxEl4iZ
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08n3tU0V7d
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDz37zN1aWo
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrm9kuLIU9
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjaUkS2kok
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKnfdPZHcu5
meant to last.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0z3WeVccSv
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpjWAM6iiN
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQypZEk9e5s
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXMY1wjEgh
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBKz0kv3K5
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmx80rHPTU
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIXxGEStUw
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpLiPdiiaG
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6vWoz631x
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhwuEGXsi1
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9hVKYsklS
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1F3vbu4Jkc
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyALFbUwqH
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8o9mfFiMRS
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZo9MFq5Lub
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLlClZgZGX
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzw1sC5z6y
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKsqwhFOlT
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9EALWMedq
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PFxuc5vuh
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0z9H6YWY4
equal rights.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNStlceoqU4
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfGnJXfZpl
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wsmHmslgx
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbEtd2foYj
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkUsu0qX2p
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21pbd0iRrY
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskBbEUnxZJ
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhOGca1hiC
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7ffBEBlXe
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysp5HAfwDQ
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JOvgzR7gL
edge.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpIipNcYCS
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8Jqv6unaR
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1gNvlU0sm
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduPSw1Gee4
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2To6Iw8P7x
is this way even now.312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViG5IieEuS
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSgC02MlEe
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl33WQesYBZ
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAO4vHbS5T8
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30Cg4ayDPd
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them312Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZRyud73qB
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
