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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4DQBjrQfN
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyWcEfqGN3u
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KNd3ieJyN
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdcD9PH0qq
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf6TZaftsiL
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgvLGRfUIe
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Aln8ygTDX
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yNlJrJFEv
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9lpQ2n81M
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtxIODXWx2
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNNJHj6mlw
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3FMKEvq7E
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFzxTaXmYN
meant to last.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Ax9uOOiDE
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDSjltXSvF
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhz1uTCNsYY
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mrWkEbr5X
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaSJhubnSBI
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLXGp5XFFX
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZuW8qGJHoY
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFpOWivGri
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7yV3x7sTEJ
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIUXYq1fOl
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYKu4Lu0YU
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7XKlfauoU
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxFkLi45Sj
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhtdeYB5m5
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFBaLSymtC
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecGbwW8vFg
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4vsixeIcT
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYzFhAivgl
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xJIEgmoz0
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4QmYg2tPNl
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYTdBNJPTQ
equal rights.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOG7lB8MTsA
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEeu7AAOTl
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmg7UkBX1IP
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkjBrZtwbv
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17jBN7hx2M
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cCoAoKDrp
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnqB8RtBDX9
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jduO1PQlQ
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRNdIXZFdL
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQ1Ogvh1Nd
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoh0XXgkLLS
edge.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPc1SWOOGX
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9od2P9z5M
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvSpabQ3EK
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JtRATpOw9
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29CsO7sBBg
is this way even now.358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFnOzDYh4X
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cZam3gfWk
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7OzsH0V0F
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3vX50RZbs
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsomwsiD4w
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them358Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxe0RVEYrX
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
