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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77xBam6O38
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUnO2nN5Ah
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQrqHmsuzH
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtz6KgR8m0g
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSubkwZFui
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLihf9PzM9
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFa0tgHqZ5
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAd4HbBN7NG
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbx83qQuXVY
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkEqWyBEOh
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHEASGZgQW
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dD6i3JFMb
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqBoEern8S
meant to last.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKO33aYLvdt
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Odj9N5u9G
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEGmE1G73g
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4iCsTlAmF
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EOckjonmJ
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡre8Y9ceIZ1
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNwHHMeVDb
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡciWfeSAItv
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtv8QQKbCsg
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gBx0eGMjK
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94EsvBvzXc
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡujwmrHcbpM
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDD5O1Kcqzk
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2lFqy5GyZ
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtR0tUvW0Ng
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMObzEUViut
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1eR9BqNbhy
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Tcd0Sr4Hh
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8M6zK4FKlv
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqZKp1Qp8q
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZFaLb6UO0
equal rights.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0O1f1sOjT2
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJew2Cf3i0g
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENVkzTgHv1
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUyjr9QzZhn
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIlJn4mddC
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxERExTvmc
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUc4gljSmi
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXkAhXYkXU
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsletkhKyd
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ04aFoK16U
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3aqJzDI3FC
edge.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlphNhjlMTr
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxVSrG18vqt
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSfZ7osqxh
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKpamPJrvC
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZFeqBZbC6
is this way even now.293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0STthxTZTR
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0oQ0DLlwlU
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWhgS9v2cj
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYeZE4ko9N
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnciEkZpvVt
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them293Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZeUFNiidg
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
