And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzeSAKwQQgN
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUPkVJ51UN
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMp06oHQDEM
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswKo8PVTtS
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjB4ssFM2tT
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb8513XAKor
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRfb1kzjSG
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMuCUs6lJr
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNn0wnJ4pLy
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQG5bl0Ukx
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtrJ8npbwg
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTe1JC5umDP
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISIUVNcZWi
meant to last.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JUVc5Uavc
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbnLaMDZrC
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMK5Ixb2ByD
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqNwrcyxXx
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULBWd6iMYP
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KcYQLzKnk
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQuzx7cZbD3
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sktpPKw9j
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaLyPXDmRO
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMaCicvzERh
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERZVyS7gTG
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWUXbWaFhC
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9dDyVqJEQ
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBhiYTYaed
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfh9Gifihtx
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12EwybJRPT
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqljLChdv0O
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJPVZxSPoH
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZTgLfF7je
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4QwOwwM7g
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJcy918oFk
equal rights.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxEFN3vwhq4
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJwUbK18Bd
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg37BRe3D5v
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23xwRp0QvU
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6P1ddLZ2c
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8DwfutIDA
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfjfaecESx
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4U9I70iPiN
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9q63tCV40
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkVKYLYxM3
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqK7uaGqHj6
edge.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzldWuZ70FZ
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8QaXcKAzu
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡumYXOREowW
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QQ3FDIOU0
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrlzvGTYbz
is this way even now.422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0Y0OHyZw0
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHqBXbpfFx
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsgKYFnYpQ
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NQV06C498
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFqPOLB5BP
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them422Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbzbg2yz0y
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
