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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIBQWo4Twk5
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOjMIryDZ4
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTFL9P2w2E
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECAXGu9gmI
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8reyOjeMz3
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHWpq7tyFO
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09BhPL5tYf
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdePBrKU4rO
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtj7hF2gm0
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvFhklkROG
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtRL6Zfexr
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjd06EN770
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB81PiAoRyq
meant to last.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA08QQW9M5g
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHXKMXyXFM
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIeQDqnnk4Y
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvqgP5j9lp
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBwH7phQuc
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwrSG9u0Jy
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzE7ZyTf7dq
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2JsAL9LXN
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVMkXl3pJb
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqgT3UeOmv
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg0rFkGX7i5
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtK9BmLcyCg
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtepX4dsf9y
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPNJ0H1hvi
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkqjvSi2Aq
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27vCUJ6FGK
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGqAqVOE69
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPbNVLinpZ
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWQTlFEX7N
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90M5PZustl
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomh17OTX7J
equal rights.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYGD8gpxon
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcfoZgwA2H
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBoAI3bAAVI
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpJvHPm0ce
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4ZuGRSI4l
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsu8eu7ptuC
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRH3Sv6haO
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUhh1n5BK2
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlOdMS8O5X
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxusErPMBF2
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIk7ZJ2eLW
edge.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUGHPgO5ah
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdySXwEl9vN
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1fFekcypUg
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bZvFRS4F6
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLsYKnrLaP
is this way even now.253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvIMHtRxHA
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAHQaXJEjX
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjGmlMVGkm
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZMXW89Ua6
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuZJdEluRE
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them253Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡainI5WJTI0
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
