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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYOVDgkYgo
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHcKN5hX7V
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqDOqIuFXb
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5Bii4PNsZ
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPjfV67RNs
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGovNMe18oo
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOcLKXyV0W
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFKoPqZREQ
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZONAVZmXt7
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfeTzfIVW4
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9D450E9vy
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAT8QWXtvh
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8IKOi1fz8
meant to last.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpvK6PgtAI
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokqdkbGcoE
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktJ7aV9fU8
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtZPYl5ycg
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqlKJDvl27
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcDeldSOCB
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nJFMiSGaJ
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWb6sDLrfO
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIMpIJ75FX
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkfg7p1IJy
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dKK9d1KQA
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpALDgKfQHP
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLG7usJRiGG
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2glCak7JG5
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtZ60z5RhK
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKLywnghrN
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptHszX9QLA
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UYZD1hD2D
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1XXNgizSo
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbshbrh2CxD
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFWQpaRIvK
equal rights.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdP6ulBWXRv
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpVqI8oLdS
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02JgPuh9oR
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIuVhwaOwl
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAivtKxcVf
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCywBn64L7u
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kviOhLeGk
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDx8a5Se3g
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qkRrHAzRm
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiXGlt4Hz1
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOKLf02Xhf
edge.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9DyxlEqSA
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbRMAMMowx
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSxZE5KOSm
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FDzxipCCy
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx20JwklpKb
is this way even now.288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCK6QsE9Zi
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhOwHaG2E6
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8mvyVGJmW
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGu8sQbB4N
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYw10doXaO
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them288Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvnNntNdyJ
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
