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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2NgI6OmC2
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4s1ylp0Ul0
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xEMrk4ACB
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsJEYu6RgH
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjEJ4hOr5b
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqcxrgKW3H
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvYBCO87nSM
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9tWWOW8HH
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJJo1s9GJ4
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawp75m0GTU
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2XkwFmiSN
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTYWR7BPhj
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvUAqKxif5
meant to last.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TNUgLcsQi
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7FlBx8Qz4
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZWtaCpQ8D
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjeDsZlppJ
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7aDYShV0A
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3Vqz1zszo
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZN2FV9ikKo
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuUzGUzXkL
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfx1TacpTg4
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5vaKsDast
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy6AqSbtkbS
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6p9hmEkPth
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeU0UNgHdIO
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8Q0nNqgof
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAr28X9oELD
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhB8qCMXwU
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5QgUoBz9L
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrcuvohxcnz
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeTZTMV8F8
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhshxrgxPc
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyBqDAdeav
equal rights.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbUiWjqys6
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Wak16dALJ
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhr3ZRYJngM
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37a8uLTY4r
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDjGljGEfV
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCDhD6nBgv
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbumuKvf4pA
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsO9KsQGa61
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0BcS34FFw
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3IXQgS4FFN
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0aq9Yn7Cv
edge.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFopklkRrXm
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9yn9qWNtGB
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqcpUREb7Z
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVBw2PDkVD
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUo1WB6JK4
is this way even now.177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmmAZvMyhG9
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQ0tosRsgT
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0SfeO7eIv
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Lr2SrbFNj
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMbo66XPi3
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them177Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDJwBAiiFr
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
