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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHml4CtVQit
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2p0SVuMMS
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEerpR6sG7
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pfuq5u4Lh
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsbKJxfxz6
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnA6lwZdIlZ
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZt3rqXGmQa
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡML4g3zAOZ9
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LP4G1xboX
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UNh5m8JNN
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9d6jNEaKI
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0rhU42GAaP
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIeW5jrKI4
meant to last.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA79nR9zBRn
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wJ66Xjc5w
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqEiFFNgo1
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2xjeZQBwY
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTP8Q5UHEs
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezr6Piz8l4
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4g6nfQpnx7
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19NoxeGpot
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoJHTaQ8F2
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJYPfkg8Gg
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cCK1BVAsb
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2k1cz5Us5Z
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cYuvu47fK
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhCMh9OIsZ
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVj0iWE7nO
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNv9eTziFP7
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ044eNDOx3i
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIc4m512EBC
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMNNk3idiC
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOyNpXbyZY
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4D8joaNsR
equal rights.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLboOGKcVGx
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0US9J1lrD
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBq004kt89j
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7DKiQu31P
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoZ0P4VS9k
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwABIU8mhIk
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZkNGnR1gJ
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWV1wNrKpRP
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sOKs8TxW1
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFlH7BbZqT
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbEFNCmZ04
edge.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkq1cJDO0XQ
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruBLW0flbz
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALFodyACtG
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuELxyO9QA
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnabJuc1MsP
is this way even now.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IodDbR39O
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Q4eBsLuEM
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcp44R5efWf
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXnTGij4mu
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEfa8vrmFD
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWDymbyAbT
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
