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Logically - all celestials should be at least combat veterans with quite a lot of fights in their past. Having a certain skills granted by eather doesn’t remove their previous experience and the basic understanding of how combat plays. When someone is very strong and equipped with long range abiliries he should be aware that most if not all enemies will try moving near him to negate some of his arsenal. He should have a response to that. In general learning something new will grant you a big boon of expertise at the start wih little time investment. Becoming proficient or expert usually takes a lot more time. Yet someone who knows tha basics good and is on the defense can be a real problem even for an expert to take in a short time.

All I think is that in such a cruel world each and every hunter have to be thick skinned. Even the very best have a small chance of dying each time he fights so if you make every single encounter into a fight, sooner or later you will die. Few times faster if you are not the best. Smart move would be to hold grudges and act when in safe eplace.

You know what a cliffhanger is? (After the description of the flames) He was dead. Next chapter starts with “Unless …” Would be hilarious!

Yes, but half way in the chapter you stopped and after a while it feels not as tense and a bit relaxed. So, erhaps you should continue even with just a sentence here and there.

Would Emir be able to cover the parking bill?

This chapter feels like walking in a dusty ruin of a mall with a high tech suit and rifle at hand. Perhaps for more eeary atmosphere and suspense you could add some debris and building degradatio.

Fight was good but perhaps next time you could cover in a sentence or two the environment, positioning of covers before the action starts. Something of the like of. MC enters said building there are guards at the main entrence left and right of them is this and that. And besides the MC is this which he thinks he can use as cover. So from his point of view how he moves around from cover to cover, from room to room with a brief description of what he sees.

My point was different. You cannot cut through a thick object with a short weapon like a knife. There are multiple reasons - but sharpness is not the issue. The density of the material you cut, the thickness of the blade and the weight matters. Let me put it in another way - a knife that can cut will through bone will be brittle, unless the material which is made of can be durable and flexible when its thickness is few microns. The other way to do it will require extraordinary strength from the user - the knife-wielder will have to be able to push a blade through a piece of wood - after the knife is stuck (you should try it at home, take a knife and try slicing through a thick piece of wood, at some point it's stuck and it doesn't matter how sharp is the blade, the outer edges are stuck into the material and the density of the wood will require immense strength to be able to push the whole knife - slicing is entirely different thing and action, but you won't be able to slice bone with a knife as well. Knife is just too short and the physical restrictions on that are too much. There is a reason why combat knives are used for slicing and stabbing, not for cutting the target.