x
And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xALrYT8Ac
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiZvlopBuw
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMC7nd0uoq
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyawvwzfdP0
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNIqN9Zwlk
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJ9UMZHIJY
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡisqk3hodgh
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJuXcFgrNc
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZQCl3k2w9
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUtui255C8
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbfuSGG7cS
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVjBmJzxwb
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHKBQmk9ho
meant to last.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwbOIheoDk
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAi0JQJMCR
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPdpcOGmkn
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSJp6sY9hs
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNIz2sRu0q
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19rX2YEvbH
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsRZBcRDL3
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXUMR67XpP
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwTnpuHRBB
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cJQOIot95
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtmmUzIEkC
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXT98kHfcB
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUJmQDGGsu
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPETOJwzf2L
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4zrK0TOLY
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8N1YKtU52x
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ347NzXcHZk
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSZVjiMivk
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccPjSqBzae
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSlrF5JMdV
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiF2PK6X2oN
equal rights.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtiwQDrQik
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvlMxoXVJ8M
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDGn9cUXVK
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNDRX5rx54
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4WJQ2GYpfP
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEW22Khodmc
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PGkGvakXz
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqo2mSX9bS
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZgqprsvFE
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkP7EY5Qdp1
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCr8HOPRyW
edge.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qAwXluOpL
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0qfKVckgR
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLYE22Rrcc
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKw6tpxlrKM
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMWszmA8mb
is this way even now.348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNLoUznter
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzJogcPbvz
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UBe3uovk9
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsToEck898J
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhE77exxCEc
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them348Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10mrwbe6Zm
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
