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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WSVhjoGS3
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFG2bhMGCv
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6I7VU3TTp4
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgfYw0hHU7f
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJcjKrb5KO
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGi99BBwjv
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEFV6dWPqF
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcX8ROw542
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52zA2d6AcN
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkWmcJUTcV
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dR67tPJug
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37daYc35M8
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2JFpK6rD0
meant to last.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVzPRYEylJ
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegFEUoz26f
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGBLRDdAyx
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrlpr3N3Zr
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTIaCC4LNr
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡREatFavfR6
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡil67Sj0jtX
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsRsWUW2CK
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhk3Pa1wdLU
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8ClSM2XA1
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJq2wONRql
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJ3yDqdnWd
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEV9z8MjO5
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6SftuyUyV
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8PXUwx94i
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnJQfV2Nze
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7jqjfYT25
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxRb9Av2Kx
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ18PB7pyOW
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYq3hddN3T
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEInRuZDQ8
equal rights.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXoqS5N0SD
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtbReIrgZU
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJa3mITlScz
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMYDI8m2xl
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcB2OBudjfa
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZzacJughV
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQVcT2dvwq
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBAbNoJIz0
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomHphpbQUt
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyapqPnokCA
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5edOvne8J
edge.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgfXJH3O29
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlwCOnw8Bbh
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavtoGDfFjb
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWs5PvJXy3
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucgfVxt0Zy
is this way even now.364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWE994vmFer
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNf2dopRRu
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8Dyo0ZStT
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuapCmBNyf
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Xp0FXk6eO
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them364Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqthbUmxXfM
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
