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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqjma4dc5d
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqQsnvpxEB
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TyqxvhtlW
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoPDeb6Jx1
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBaIqvJRNP
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Vjb5sOQP5
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vfOJsIbpN
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeUTBpjgr4
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUsExqmi54
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVOphQJqYC
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPWJkC589e
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCv8kpx0URF
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Iw5ni7pei
meant to last.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0ioRbLCVb
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtToL8MZLXT
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjBZxfnD8R
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfmvhROdm68
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsDtoSuxw6
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sDZPSooal
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauX4iGlZ3Z
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTmmIXvLO8
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qrh57gFxH
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5Wnzy81U8
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEpiWD2ARu
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRZ9fjXhN1
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbee1xFt1gq
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHs8JzxVlA
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPTdITc7SN
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpMsTFbaVd
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHR5OdxUQa
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6bmP7ngg2
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0aBE30MReE
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecAtDO4BIK
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwM27dlQsKN
equal rights.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLu7sjoiWT
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkWGBzAKvc
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYPKYmD2SK
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RZcvkiqtq
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqAO7vTnjq
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnc9fvett5
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoMfQEYAGf
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBjYufUopU
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfVwLOOLjjX
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0FOk6lybs
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkE5OiqubC
edge.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfU5Gl1Jks2
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSf5IUQ8fAl
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYjhThzq8R
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYqJY5z7ST
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7uDqNYZdJS
is this way even now.397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMOgry1ZLT
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKI5UNwW6r
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJXpBcMOt7
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLzz4P45mz
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOBue5YRlf
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them397Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjbWq6x7Nh
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
