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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGMAV5Cd7s
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjqqfyvjgS
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYp0cwhmBZ
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡujk56FIh61
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqRpsT6hOv
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8tCO3AiWB
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXn8HaJxCG
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsmkZGsoHC
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNteGMnPCKZ
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQu1Sf3der
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1kc7lGlgF
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4OQQoGmNn
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQVcqLKm27
meant to last.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVSOUWvFkJ
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69BNMR5NxZ
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwT00OQvjAC
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhC0dzssJRX
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmz3ux3qvM4
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9seLwWSSy
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlW0SMneGk
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAcIzopZpU
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFZs2g0ZIu
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaA0vQfp3Ab
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCSN5dFpRxA
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtet1sQMKtK
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1PxBvf1Gx
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52a0HiUiwG
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTJkBalV0i
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauNjTOCeaA
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwiEAniQHj
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6T1NW7uDe8
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoS5gSw19Lk
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRMNPCyDJu
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWIWuMQkkE
equal rights.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLeujMvFMCM
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdohDj5p2l
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBTtcN8z9T
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xwrwxwjUx
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MP60pEDJU
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ299s401w5Q
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfdhReDml0
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIBvLltbjb
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQxkksBbdZ
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6IqbnI5YT
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaF57nmuSD
edge.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMvK7ZEqG5
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZnpQvnVvv
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6Ibd0oyhn
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpft88eNJJQ
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMj1tEMHko
is this way even now.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcGWMJIRC2
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4rjYlfdpn
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPpnDUkkEs
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvM0IZj6sVu
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFmWDtn66w
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwU9Y9nEUym
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
