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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEMw8aIAEc
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkPiy9Fkxn
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTuIBsn8RP
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8voKdpXANd
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKbyqD9foW
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnU0ogra1gN
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrNaGmV3dz
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXezzUcbukV
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJB73Cd9ZdD
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zCflejIpS
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehKOJDeB4S
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtmGJv8P93
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ718orqQw8X
meant to last.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPwyoXJSe3
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZW4NazibPN
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9hS4sOzdm
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡywWDfmRGUT
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqakXBX0In
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HLgWB1Z9A
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLp0kOf2tQ
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmcp7CwCGN
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXFuoE1x4j
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZCkASDNYO
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbNT5OP30y
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yJggoHDGl
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznyueS6SK3
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6oarFmL7K
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Z7nwQULna
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Ph5DjysZR
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0efChzWQB
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YolvqP95C
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARiRuMjYW5
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FkSPIdfZA
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKs1lSR6uao
equal rights.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoh3GeEYUv
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQ53LKz0T3
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdajViLxTpq
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBaBNhZikG
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qfJ1TzhZM
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxeoipZzEw
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd27LnpKlHC
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOozczr6Y6Z
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOLnZv66hO
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZKTSRKF0v
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDMKxNL3kZ
edge.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJO1MDMDV6Y
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeK8y8xKKwT
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTyuPQFxWA
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi14XAWpGCE
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKE9nhjjWp
is this way even now.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jEhbl4ZAg
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyMqQQTxX8
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMYJyQkwMa
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsBkfsK2tU
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzoTKl00lU
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoF3cGv5TS
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
