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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyJklkZNqB
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWfx9gVU7F
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnSjjv0PxW
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPj0IhwqQyC
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNna9GeyWhc
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOV503Xglx
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwELvhurntk
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8m3beMGijR
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQXefqRARi
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HiEDnItjD
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5ReLKmxm7
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsZtTXyVVP
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXduY8d1OV
meant to last.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGK3CrBQyAj
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0rXsacdLN
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzTkzrlNS6
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegjcnXVhml
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsVbpun7Bx
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIaxKFtpKR
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5t7WD6uVHP
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAs2QuvGeiB
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRb3lNtT5sI
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dS74H90wi
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXvbrgJANv
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhTv7bPQJN
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkeQ18Kt54
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSJYrQAjRF
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVjkddsCyn
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIDDzH4hnr
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCg7zHlv6K
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShsTYmchmn
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMWv6gxMt2
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCBeZzCGN4
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaouE80YxE
equal rights.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNERPS7wB7
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSK8NFY7srX
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VHqbh2Him
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2opdoIrvM
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3E8XXZO6n
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrRGrlmPc8
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQAvYbqZFC
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqzZN0RurA
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBC7yh8xbT
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieynKLLmjl
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZj0yFrnjF
edge.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAt1R10IyP
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdO0K6g9Eb6
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkUOmjUieI
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkg62kzD0qa
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9chEGvKml
is this way even now.327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKA2He93zYi
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgP3IKUAii7
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPn0coNjjR0
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZUdOUQZUA
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5t89KadJm
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them327Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtTa89Is16
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
