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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7hcWv00Iu
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIZHqEGP1j
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeiMqp9oVcx
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAqUSY5Ue1
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5hO3U28OA
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubsgEeHsKk
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2LRmzPtBmt
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbkW0VO5qo
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXQjdUzoVL
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOEmX4Z3AI
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IiuPWQBB7
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldUXMLrdvW
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡry1nsJcZ1i
meant to last.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZU9THdsO57
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakBEwqMH7C
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvgsgEYZ20
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2nj3aocri
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD13hoppGa3
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfA9iReAVv
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPtC1mLuYp
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGApFcA1kT
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1G8XmoKEzn
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo57vJ0PKJJ
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtQ4X8lvu9
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFiLLxz8X5
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFsRySKxKs
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPsF9Opgfm
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGONL1d7tQ
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EBnBB3zyD
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGloDByAAoB
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgigpnWio6
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjyoDi481Q
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLx6HCsaHqe
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0J7inW1r4
equal rights.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3N3VDUxv7
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGq52NErUSS
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0LjYNQLfv
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiWxmVKM665
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡteF5unJCU0
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4m8Q6ih2M
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeDsU0D3zj
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLE73vx5Gt
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8myga48b0d
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmT8J9LArAN
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ606BSapJ9q
edge.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNKayMvUwq
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiDFlopfxi
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWr2J2deKGK
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKnw2Avr29
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sbbHi58cI
is this way even now.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvj4Eg3cIr1
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiXqcMHINX
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6K0mguJFRX
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3QtC8ks30
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOB0S2uf8Is
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgp04opkif5
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
