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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEbdGvN4gl
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtQLQOyJEv
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolW7rg0FQ8
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9rCnuq4of
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARmOGrwGEc
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WrESAChvJ
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV29rhe090a
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVlpGQefxU
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxeQTpDB8C
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0soq30pQe4
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLOrkUnGx1
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsG2hNPTSB1
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡin3wsJryJ7
meant to last.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpyQIj3gkO
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZW2OdiigX
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwE1g2pby6t
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzNZ6MCscz
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUIjdOg356
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37tDd9KMdt
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxk0yXB4Hv0
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfsABMbSWO7
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolatepiNiK
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNbi3BFAXw
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmK1SxQPAVP
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdOCHaG24f
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCOlo0ahmY
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsRcACtROB
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV93UoDvR5g
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzF4rT93sNL
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZUiSedGFo
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfF1dn71iCs
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrun7w8otad
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPo8T22Fn7O
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTThYHlSp9U
equal rights.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlH1ewhtqi
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhccps682Mf
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvfpChkEnCI
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDAJNkieZ3p
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7yB1e4pRw
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2BojcN7NA
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HGuyNGNUy
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fssvvxNWu
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehlb0kmCaH
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwXN2gzrVS
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfgSdvJXvn
edge.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LSighqKPh
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtibCnuzE5
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXghZ0auyug
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTr0jsbusKg
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cof35t5jb
is this way even now.372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBnHU0KBvO
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXmsLTv1dE
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbpX38EZdq
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbbbd3gGU9
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8Isrnvbfg
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them372Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5REzSIo52N
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
