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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WzCTCUR9o
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmfWdnqdb3
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxSFbZp3wi
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLzhR8MijH
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzZTlJUaTc
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Nsp1zVzpE
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmp2w6iGatv
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMMnstPF6D
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeBWDvJAto
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJ9woj2hma
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmoCbDQFnxx
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0AVlVzNNTn
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAjHIeKMO9
meant to last.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvFyKFr14m
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4yJ7TOmby
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbiTkCbV7lG
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3Rp7N3Vll
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASqJL28pNk
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiAgrcJWGX
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00KYBftfWt
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAueC1ii13
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOZqaiaR6W
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOIYmdgJki
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLdDh2Ku0Z
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIe6XjlsMy9
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgUq3dZmHs
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbf3FxfO9W
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkdC0KaJix
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScBhnOzZye
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgkARnz6uO
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81b67Z6Fe6
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlbVH9HsYn
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRVT6HGxre
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPiyp2hbCeP
equal rights.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTovNe4DhmY
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX780kOr1Rt
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIWyrgLyBG
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLhaekiEMB
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡicwLTf8ymi
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHbUtoziMe
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJrnspHti4
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgPVjGaTMq
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdMiFZmk3j
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUO6VmPB0g
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBScAcMZKX
edge.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJeMWUVDmDj
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GpXaPCMjN
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJqYMwLT8i
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxB4agSqCmc
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9xGaqNFs0
is this way even now.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE72osUk5Tl
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGAQ5MRbzF
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2FfWbzNbL
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr251tUOjQK
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4s2zxkyxw
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOQPmsjsoB
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
