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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVQTYDXGjz
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0vbGptLc2
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEEi3oZaWRF
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtunod6TWxm
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DKGoQqTiC
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPn9SYajgZv
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0ltRT6qUS
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLp7I8pFwZ
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡED1GPKEyYE
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyr8yMtn7xa
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2fy32MSzo
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjpBAglP5R
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVlZvDvPf7
meant to last.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFNX39XOHy
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTXUQ7toje
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJOY99f9t6
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyQUGeGrlw
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEVngqxwJ5
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Svo1nEZ2M
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHCJnTFE0u
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9G6Zb3ncvO
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XSTjP6lGW
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWlfIO2PV4
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfrYbO06MyJ
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jvbdk95ny
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwXuoC5BoS
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxHlf4mPyx
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkVDngk2ee
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrR0KaX3YDF
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdnbg5ammi
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWpkidp6Sw
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvA4VhxZpiD
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6a1PImNvc7
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJavtlLIIA
equal rights.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2hUhSFjFA
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPjYpANLr4
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7foF8yISU
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIn4SiTHMnk
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7NQZjGB8l
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9FZNHDwlNF
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Tw7OKVPDp
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7u9Vxm1e1Z
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ujQ7DzUo5
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdQ5UcuWjq
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFs4ZR49Fko
edge.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvu3xqNhUXr
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbPyjPNqvqP
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtnXl0TTnW
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWYr9tByu9
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJNEDyTBV4
is this way even now.345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gDRKNxMnC
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5vBqL9AF9
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjFbkc4E5T
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkfrSwxxB9
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5cmzHMStF
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them345Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7V0VDk58w
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
