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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxfShTCuCc
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3CwVFXNAuC
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbVZxWlUIg
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dScEBu2Gs
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVKHNSxEuA
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjarJ9mki8r
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ysrGas3sH
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gizOprP4S
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡir3FLE4B43
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0VuUHq07de
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RlMMF7cKC
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUbGntspKM
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolH7dqMl8L
meant to last.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMc5ig6kOCU
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmG4BOjg7z
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2F5soEWNB
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnOKTo0JYW
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFzYviaMV4
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtuv7567sr
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdz0H9kjKKY
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xT2U5zeWR
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFrZjrOgAG
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWFNwLO55H
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGn2JebkIjj
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRxWQlJ38V
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYR6vRGPNod
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4uStIz470
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPxguge1Yq
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWsbboSvCVF
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21bX7Ph8Qk
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAT0aZGEkX
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPV4UVesLd
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzhj6RO0xy
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnNO49HMu4
equal rights.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzIO1HOUTm
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvbyogJm1K
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9YPFTDwbS
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqrcrm8ePc
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjveC0UZ2bU
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbwk2jdhfKY
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNbJpnbXDF
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2EiTH9CAq
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoVvIlsta5
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLclkwRcdL
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMB0PzE1Rhw
edge.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xmTjZvVgf
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZihH02i9g
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8cWLVfGGr
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWB5mJe0Lnh
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmaaSFKujeE
is this way even now.292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2pfC3FDe1t
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpSEoh0t8N
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87aSahPP8Q
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzwTJ7Dhdw
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlb73S5tPM
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them292Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49FClPxwcz
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
