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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlhoq8tG6s
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCF5dfOBuRO
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqp4CwLYPb
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUMpAxMbYK
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkuaKnoDbr
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYc98csti0m
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeF5UODP36r
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjvDDTkRH5
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kaSTXFB6r
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ43V7D3z9c
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ByCT49Fm5
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2UxGkNV34c
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeKENsgJKB
meant to last.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QUN8o3G1Z
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbjMuHvk1l
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gsVpYXEMd
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92fEtAzlqB
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DtVXuLS0N
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0hSRYvHo8
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QIBF95aU7
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HD7oWKyu5
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1fym48hEo
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCeWHYsaxBE
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwzmqbHAcx
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9RU0S3oZQ
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyigx73lzzu
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjD5bKtoxfU
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHG2EBb7jN
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9wEHWYxSN
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4Yq1UnDL8
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPDDOOQE9s
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTk56KrhCXK
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlu4le1Eyk
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBtgIrln5M
equal rights.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jjz6BGU2y
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuHSwfBmDA
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyu6xn3ro1X
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzEs7A8D3m
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJ1vO4MbyJ
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVp2B7L0Np
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0FlOau1heH
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyovvWJE5aX
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKeHW06xw4
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgN2MYaYql
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCYX7nyMlS
edge.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqu7IWYOmmK
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlZW5jPw0B
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VvBjyb5GG
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8zSWEbOM8O
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9PNu5pwrN
is this way even now.387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lyz876dIO
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZr6i4o8yi8
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBMcb7js1Z
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyktIQYoapK
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyYZOUtPbj
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them387Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEVY4Ytmau
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
