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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZuYDY9Joj
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjNwxaYVzN
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0LeWWXiEF
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYDzIXPZqA
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPKYe1kzcz
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WCtzFFVcg
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVLp3RXGvQ
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yRhRRS0a1
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGoJDWOgKsK
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNpeVt7KGv
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMm24TtWqBL
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSyVbToTpG
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqeqkrPVIA3
meant to last.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLLHhcffb8
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWeynGtwhS
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Nh08ZyRNZ
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgs58SJZZbq
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRx0kEkZ9uM
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjgou14taSW
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOe8LDkpZx
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5oeQfnRtDe
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LnWreLXdz
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZrThdpYTZ
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyngoe6OKs
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1j6HqFagyR
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKR78ilkAu
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9kvk2aqDa
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5BYsNGBzE
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdv5spPcAB2
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVs9Y4lB6C
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpOQaZVw6g
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuM0T1oJl0
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGzZalkIWP
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwRH9hTXK8
equal rights.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwxZ9WEA78
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjQKDTqb5z
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHoKWzOmQ6
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfyS9p6Cmj
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEmmOhFNPr
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWFROfZaJg
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EBCdUCXSM
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUxHM8vdhY
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IPuoq4wlI
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRw2CVJrJm8
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKkvGPNqhh
edge.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MfJjWqdh3
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00zK6Cvzph
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlbbaXC6kQ
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AysComTgX
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepWzSSxooQ
is this way even now.390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNkB8MYrZB
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZGrQs3SNj
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjjaNkoWGU
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Xqs3Uxiks
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHashqXk4nc
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them390Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoto98tRoVU
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
