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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.120Please respect copyright.PENANAbN3niL0K8S
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the120Please respect copyright.PENANAwbemiKlpFT
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one120Please respect copyright.PENANAyqtnQUxLMh
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and120Please respect copyright.PENANAH2qOUccnK6
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of120Please respect copyright.PENANAAwUkOUi13p
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and120Please respect copyright.PENANAKh4drzsDuG
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to120Please respect copyright.PENANAPDBqfozRC3
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.120Please respect copyright.PENANAS6E46hzAcb
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for120Please respect copyright.PENANAIYMcuZRvG1
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy120Please respect copyright.PENANAEdfP1HJHVU
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could120Please respect copyright.PENANA88ILFhLcob
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.120Please respect copyright.PENANARpJ547RCOm
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not120Please respect copyright.PENANAt2HZz9okPG
meant to last.120Please respect copyright.PENANAoXThP5lpz8
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race120Please respect copyright.PENANAg9fuNHwAHQ
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began120Please respect copyright.PENANAn2tWPgNNY5
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders120Please respect copyright.PENANAUE3wM4bHxQ
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.120Please respect copyright.PENANAeBGieuNbil
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they120Please respect copyright.PENANAB6grzkxqcU
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead120Please respect copyright.PENANATSn5FTG961
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires120Please respect copyright.PENANAbZtzSjKBXw
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the120Please respect copyright.PENANAQU1S1HlAAA
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.120Please respect copyright.PENANALUO6oJHXsE
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...120Please respect copyright.PENANAbZuvZPvYRP
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming120Please respect copyright.PENANA71VxaDl56N
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and120Please respect copyright.PENANAsnNqgY6wVC
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human120Please respect copyright.PENANAICKBoUai8l
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.120Please respect copyright.PENANAAWUjbZlTar
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,120Please respect copyright.PENANAFhdtrT33Fo
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their120Please respect copyright.PENANAh6OW93dt6W
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,120Please respect copyright.PENANAvfBTsFEDrX
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen120Please respect copyright.PENANAfDWDCWoqdv
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work120Please respect copyright.PENANAh5FmHnEUNV
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared120Please respect copyright.PENANAN6u7bfBEVK
equal rights.120Please respect copyright.PENANA5xBSJGgDEm
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their120Please respect copyright.PENANAMEJXtJrv87
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is120Please respect copyright.PENANAE3HzoEbWJ2
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.120Please respect copyright.PENANA00vYUcQJ08
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to120Please respect copyright.PENANAx0yV7FQIAj
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken120Please respect copyright.PENANAmax0RCDAtM
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of120Please respect copyright.PENANAiVHLR2fqqd
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who120Please respect copyright.PENANAL0veHteMpK
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and120Please respect copyright.PENANAyEupvNSYzr
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with120Please respect copyright.PENANAkcQHDan4CI
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the120Please respect copyright.PENANAN0h1FMU3VI
edge.120Please respect copyright.PENANAkh0tbkN3k0
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all120Please respect copyright.PENANA3Jl9oZdmHw
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is120Please respect copyright.PENANALI5aRJn77x
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their120Please respect copyright.PENANAnQwQcUJr7m
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it120Please respect copyright.PENANAxfNQMzofvf
is this way even now.120Please respect copyright.PENANAz1SsalDNHa
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as120Please respect copyright.PENANAwCwFNrNsNK
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed120Please respect copyright.PENANAEo2DMjadf7
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely120Please respect copyright.PENANAyO37oJ8rHy
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings120Please respect copyright.PENANAuSrQMmWiym
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them120Please respect copyright.PENANA5KlvJBM3yv
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.