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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSPlhEyeeE
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukZtfbxFNt
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2yOv7Az5o
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRJoQBNfzl
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLGrZBbUNp
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYG0nkNVGmg
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFEtVohTAH
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTcTMotdY7
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ARE6R1iqb
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpf88uLcqc
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIf1DEX1Jc
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96J5w7aVQI
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGq4qxa2UR
meant to last.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxb6fizNSV
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuirBch3G6g
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxR3ysGfUc
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxri9OT2pCo
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fJyr1H7rF
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTEUeeIRZp
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQi28VqCheU
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHgfttwZEA
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqAOokhLzI
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNql6YQGqIQ
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTQvbYqUxV
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFs9EivcEv
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvs9m2BRT2M
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTt1z2j6zOd
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwbHROJlRt
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxE1iqz69ms
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmppdsEk2D5
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnaNimyZCyv
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1n3FxZekpr
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKwTXE1rnS
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuV27Dyv50H
equal rights.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLpXVEhZVx
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZaQv0DFg7
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgDWxVpj6u
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdIodudY3c
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoaHYb5ZzwO
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FCr1Qb84V
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAoWiqNisW
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5EAVGIGS0
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqNtj5XHd9
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGatxxWN29a
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloat2smTAQ
edge.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcQ4jq3HG6
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXPL7htIG6
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrSf0DPu2h0
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aajjo1h2w
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXO7ElsusRy
is this way even now.330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqTCrJenLQ
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZuHDdoLQf
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpTQCwwmOm
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6USMP24rEp
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhV4ZqG2cxs
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them330Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIslUWNaF2o
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
