And this craving for more of it would reshape the world yet a second time.123Please respect copyright.PENANASoZVInhy3f
The Centra technology would make the world a smaller place, as through it the123Please respect copyright.PENANAMzcKNVZokk
tribes not only began negotiating among themselves, thus giving birth to the one123Please respect copyright.PENANAO0IZCw1obH
tongue, but they would also learn to build great many things. The skills of bow and123Please respect copyright.PENANAaHXgVOD0Y9
spear were replaced with much better weaponry, villages became cities, and much of123Please respect copyright.PENANAae4Ovo1JhQ
the animal power was replaced with machinery. Small boats, in time, became ships and123Please respect copyright.PENANA7CatXc55tL
later these too, would be for the most part dropped as soon as the first airship took to123Please respect copyright.PENANAyLSRjUUNpq
flight, and the skies proved to be much safer routes.123Please respect copyright.PENANAZwdXQv98VL
However, amongst all this growth, the seeds of fear and paranoia, of distrust for123Please respect copyright.PENANAhU5m4yNs6d
the other races were also growing just as much, if not more so, than the seeds of joy123Please respect copyright.PENANAuucMyQVHN9
and illumination. All it took was the sheer thought of what any other race could123Please respect copyright.PENANAbJwQy7m6TV
be after and what would they do if they obtained it, for all to succumb to despair.123Please respect copyright.PENANAh2UmXqjWev
The newfound freedom and safety the world had been blessed with were thus not123Please respect copyright.PENANAV1mpK5nI9x
meant to last.123Please respect copyright.PENANAjtgnAtxwX0
Turn on each other, they did. The more advanced, the further ahead in this arms race123Please respect copyright.PENANAyDWhqXJONH
a civilisation was, the bigger the shadow they would cast upon the rest. The race began123Please respect copyright.PENANAu4XO1NcX4a
in this manner, propelled by fear and thirst for power with the two biggest offenders123Please respect copyright.PENANAExn7wD9zJs
being the Kingdom of Man and the Nharkim.123Please respect copyright.PENANAMKIaxpmn0O
These two, somehow, quickly distanced themselves from all and for many years they123Please respect copyright.PENANAPAxyRGlV5I
were almost on equal footing. Then something happened. The Nharkim took the lead123Please respect copyright.PENANA5O4VJDEytD
and ever since then, they were ahead of any other. For many years these two empires123Please respect copyright.PENANAQBmM6GiLko
waged war on each other until finally the Nharkim suddenly decided to leave the123Please respect copyright.PENANADp6I0p86vb
continent they all shared and settle themselves on a large archipelago to the East.123Please respect copyright.PENANA8rtIDQGiir
They left without any announcement and have not been seen since. Not quite...123Please respect copyright.PENANAXBXLvAK2jN
Naturally, it was the Humans who inherited the large landmass quickly renaming123Please respect copyright.PENANAjjAg0ZvKUC
it “The Celitian Continent” after their own capital “Celitia City”. Years passed and123Please respect copyright.PENANAvN3aY6AT3w
most of the other races that shared the continent began to scatter as the Human123Please respect copyright.PENANAeUpilS9AoT
Empire kept on pushing them till there was no more land for them to run to.123Please respect copyright.PENANALo4C6VvN8E
Humans expanded and everything else diminished. Generation after generation,123Please respect copyright.PENANAPPTLhluBq4
the more humans were spreading the more and more could other races be seen in their123Please respect copyright.PENANAcyq1uhXkNm
cities, free to live as they deemed fit. They still had their very own towns here or there,123Please respect copyright.PENANA7qVbwRjjQi
but these were growing scarce and so, for the most part, every other race could be seen123Please respect copyright.PENANA2CO2OGOU8z
much like today in any number of Human settlements. Earning an honest day’s work123Please respect copyright.PENANAfqi8L0xw5g
or drinking their lives away much like Humans love to do, for they have always shared123Please respect copyright.PENANAAfLRu6fRnx
equal rights.123Please respect copyright.PENANAVHBZDVfwrC
Still, for all this, many dislike the race of Man for “absorbing” everyone into their123Please respect copyright.PENANAwtDu0PM7mz
kingdom, slowly making other traditions and values disappear. So sometimes it is123Please respect copyright.PENANAdZDC2sMb47
dangerous for Humans to come across other, more “hateful” races.123Please respect copyright.PENANAVhoQmJWLyI
Nowadays occasionally, one comes across a nonhuman town that is exclusive to123Please respect copyright.PENANA7EoPTUl7yq
their own kin. Not in the main continent at least, where the Humans have long taken123Please respect copyright.PENANAgRx8ZISDbe
over and their laws are enforced pretty much everywhere. Equal rights for the price of123Please respect copyright.PENANAhnqoPbdBzV
equal duties. Of course, on other more uncharted and undesirable masses of land, who123Please respect copyright.PENANAXOCG3naPwN
knows who or what makes their kingdom there. Despite all, nothing has changed, and123Please respect copyright.PENANAuDMdgnCL1k
no hunger has been lost as most races still fear one another. Most still compete with123Please respect copyright.PENANAz4hp1WVWdQ
one another, fiercely as each one seeks that Centra gift that might just give them the123Please respect copyright.PENANAqAIrDG3Frf
edge.123Please respect copyright.PENANAkqBnaiWY6S
From the greater empires to the smaller tribes living underground or in swamps, all123Please respect copyright.PENANA5huKW3GQqK
around the world, across any landmass where there is smart enough life, someone is123Please respect copyright.PENANA7W21rwrPkh
pursuing those Centra secrets. To sell to the highest bidder or for the glory of their123Please respect copyright.PENANADZLE6avuDE
own race, the search is never-ending. It has been like this since this Era started and it123Please respect copyright.PENANAtXWjyEI2mA
is this way even now.123Please respect copyright.PENANA8a9H88la6Z
And such unravel of this world’s decline shows no signs of slowing down, as123Please respect copyright.PENANAw28no6CO6V
especially the Humans, keep on wanting. They alone hold the majority of all the greed123Please respect copyright.PENANALCK9rvlqSq
and all the fear that infests the world in these dark times, as they keep pushing fiercely123Please respect copyright.PENANA3CHMydHl61
for the monopoly of all the Centra market. The acquisition of all Centra findings123Please respect copyright.PENANAnP5YYDvsgP
for which the Human king is willing to do anything for, either paying for them123Please respect copyright.PENANAHIjXULKp84
handsomely or by taking them by any other means if need be.
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