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And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.128Please respect copyright.PENANAFEsOlpr2RS
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the128Please respect copyright.PENANAUgp4D5I1as
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one128Please respect copyright.PENANANkpZ05JwRw
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and128Please respect copyright.PENANAQzsheu4EL5
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of128Please respect copyright.PENANAM4hi12c5pH
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and128Please respect copyright.PENANA9oG0vFzJJs
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to128Please respect copyright.PENANAv7c5nxAQrL
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.128Please respect copyright.PENANAnsMVaDd3xP
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for128Please respect copyright.PENANAColB2eEHrq
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy128Please respect copyright.PENANAMO4pqckozF
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could128Please respect copyright.PENANARU9hDm9lgK
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.128Please respect copyright.PENANAnNxeCLh0Xu
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not128Please respect copyright.PENANAx1EuMQgMCS
meant to last.128Please respect copyright.PENANAw8fpROxhjg
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race128Please respect copyright.PENANAe7bfPkux3y
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began128Please respect copyright.PENANAAvj5xP4Gri
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders128Please respect copyright.PENANAiKM0nMrYy3
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.128Please respect copyright.PENANAUzoxB61ZyQ
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they128Please respect copyright.PENANA7VZplqjvdH
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead128Please respect copyright.PENANAdaGPeElXZQ
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires128Please respect copyright.PENANAc0eb6DEa9n
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the128Please respect copyright.PENANAdGONPHoCsw
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.128Please respect copyright.PENANAMTdV2tDkJE
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...128Please respect copyright.PENANAgksG9mWsjf
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming128Please respect copyright.PENANAIjXgrxzXlf
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and128Please respect copyright.PENANAGuORA3tUZK
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human128Please respect copyright.PENANA3GL4ab38in
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.128Please respect copyright.PENANAUgSTsWQDwj
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,128Please respect copyright.PENANAz8W0G5O3lN
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their128Please respect copyright.PENANAkJMg1ACd7m
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,128Please respect copyright.PENANArM4GT63Cex
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen128Please respect copyright.PENANAmPKRGhhhOp
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work128Please respect copyright.PENANApWiIB9VU06
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared128Please respect copyright.PENANAua8dOt2qQv
equal rights.128Please respect copyright.PENANADHcasfH67j
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their128Please respect copyright.PENANA8XtDoTXd4H
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is128Please respect copyright.PENANAudCRwhJaKH
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.128Please respect copyright.PENANAJ78hNxHzal
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to128Please respect copyright.PENANAm4RuQcSsUp
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken128Please respect copyright.PENANApzhz9UnmH0
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of128Please respect copyright.PENANAQNeSgJEoFM
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who128Please respect copyright.PENANAt2Aa1dLSse
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and128Please respect copyright.PENANAMl7LrprxKS
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with128Please respect copyright.PENANAaHY7HzZAoN
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the128Please respect copyright.PENANAKhq7T0csjA
edge.128Please respect copyright.PENANAphrjNlr9ja
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all128Please respect copyright.PENANA8KhdRWQZP6
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is128Please respect copyright.PENANA3Ggo0VXHPs
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their128Please respect copyright.PENANA4BWGwJKQzo
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it128Please respect copyright.PENANAfFFJpmCbIB
is this way even now.128Please respect copyright.PENANA6EKNxy9CZ3
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as128Please respect copyright.PENANAMwzMDSNSHk
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed128Please respect copyright.PENANArt4UuojzMD
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely128Please respect copyright.PENANAn8jFFGSyzQ
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings128Please respect copyright.PENANAyvMEO19rBC
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them128Please respect copyright.PENANAIBbtFdoXNw
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.