And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMs2F8fCYdp
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qGBH4f5gp
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfgYlzp0Un
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu52WwjL57a
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfJl6gZ4WL
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUt8qEmRr4h
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9CMOlVUEn
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrOky10R2D
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpxKYXrpht
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tLZ42wE4p
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLwKRlzzbO
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhzapryDyy
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡws1L5YfuTe
meant to last.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQduyQJG7R6
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPwiOfhSdD
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2E126mZdXj
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkZMNQ2BO4
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTl43wgcwjJ
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEKlRa2AW5
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMpMsgGCfR
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWhvPD2Jcn
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oNMHg8rDa
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzxXNlwff0
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZeieFtKSJg
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ404USnKIz
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn79jMoGlnD
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubdzGvllnM
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EeVSM4uOz
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27NMcwaz8S
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttkqyMXcED
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLif7v73mbg
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFV2xfzouF
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWEL97yxa6N
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38Sshdd9p6
equal rights.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuudttWAPaG
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGGWrVltJ4
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTRS6crBxQ
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjswWSeEAGh
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZngc3nfD2K
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MfPjcb2PK
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtbA172Neg
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mgTc7mmiX
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKhadR5Akn
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61e1881IH8
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNdn44hqyx
edge.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDlh2sw9RK
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxhDdHoSx8
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7DbyxwXR2
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mb48kNbHG
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydSekn8PCX
is this way even now.423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPH4d3yf7V
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgs7ZVJEkN
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQaCUpV217e
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡge6wmDXTlg
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dod5aMeji
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them423Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGC1Cj6xvj
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
