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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZYZyMS9sIt
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQhaOqGLsr
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZy704VnIMa
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66wjMmv5hB
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqA7I9Yv2dR
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcKghDglCB
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECK6OIfuzM
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡou5qztObPx
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxgrqXqaTT
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbqaG0Eeza
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOeyrzTKzWx
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYaNofegP1
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNFupKZAix
meant to last.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQfxineg6t
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWN8NMGDmc
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHs4WARlptb
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8uVRdgb1d
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgloHhUGY8
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0ehJ1kcn4
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCwN4uhWxv
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyo7ul7MSbU
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOkYsgGWba
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLa5ilrsV1b
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwX2HXwtPBy
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuyHfYVWiVw
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5ek0FKyhk
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JLpxtVKMz
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81bvRCK2lH
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7J7dbsvFXr
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNgJpuRTT9
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLLnWX5TfR
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn415v9pxDR
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxD7efAzuft
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeZdgon1hN
equal rights.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLtLt6t0dh
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPjSEDxece
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6LUISRT52
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UBwfdiPoQ
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHhUnUe35S
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtftiJaLqGc
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iR44Gjawc
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWyMI1cFHq
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKtN9Ja6N6
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTVGGyDMxm
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUqbNVztG5
edge.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kxOI9a8FC
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeMK8aApBpi
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIgJ9QuTJ1
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYMPzlhVTK
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTE4J1vlwgI
is this way even now.285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fWO3omfrn
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiW94nIoRyp
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTygY69zvnC
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pLiVKIS6X
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78KqufDNfl
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them285Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEK5jRYklN
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
