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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2am2fUYQ0
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9s4WQEPOxl
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30AqG3SZSq
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXT62j5r2w
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXn7zJmL23j
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMaKKDrRuj
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhAGTsH9Vk
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAq8cbHY6tq
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNYWeU6uTC
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3h9HWvylc
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqifnSWInA0
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYrMTwU7rX
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9AP6ERB9Rk
meant to last.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMaSnFW5cW
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3d5oS86HMI
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7iS8UKIoG
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsP5GTpITWu
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ptx9MviyU
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7eBoG0NHdL
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4Wa3XTDk9
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AI6V99MLa
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1tOI5EDsV
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhM22sFUtB
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdFinalAFv
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTxT4Id1kE
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJRBjdZmKV
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LSv5IHYBI
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkYOwiTYyG
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4yxbSEH8Q
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJ4wkmAf9F
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPyfnrWd84
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtU8Mv5a7a
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFCg6dID2CC
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvQZN51pZT0
equal rights.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ159wVeevUS
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMv9SPrcFGv
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYGR6HTZLM
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xn8OyofH5
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6iFV90CFO
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktbwSwEgrP
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjM2lKbgMH
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXMUaL0LBd
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoUXrP9HiA
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowjJXbnZo3
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MGSMCRSTf
edge.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBrNX7UQpZ4
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxPiJc74zv
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCvfb2kLg2
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNvhJdLTCG
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZu7bP4rCIp
is this way even now.237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2CosUKAUc
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63gHxwxxno
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdmQf3gOKm
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1PK78Fvxb
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwZVKZjzuV
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them237Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBrSHzwlxYY
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
