All right. I should have posted this one a looong time ago but I kept stalling. There's still a LOT of work that has to be done on this but I will get on that after I've completely moved into the new apartment.

Edit: due to unforeseen consequences I will not have any internet until the eight of march... read major fuckup of isp. I will be able to post chapters at work however but that means no release today or sunday. I will make up with a double release on monday unless i can get internet throuh other means

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Current chapter status: 50%.
I am incredibly busy in my professional life and it won't be likely that I'll get out a chapter today/friday, but i'll make up for it at the weekend!

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Zaran's stats

Character info
Race	Zuno	Profession	Seeker of truth
Sub-profession 1	Hellbeast master	Sub-profession 2	N/A
Level	53	Unspent stat points	25
Stats
Health	1500/1500 (+1200/1200)	Mana	900/900
Ki	1000/1000	Racial ????	??/??
Strength	310 (+115)	Flexibility	100
Agility	112	Stamina	120
Vitality	75	Focus	100
Intelligence	50	Wisdom	48
Perception	30	Luck	25
Charm	2	Willpower	50
Reputation
Honour	5	Fame	550
God's merit	51

Dance of the butterfly skills

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Flutter (Advanced)
Level	5	Experience	23%
Damage	Weapon damage + 200-250	Ki consumption	30
Description
A powerful combination of an two sideways slashes followed by a stab. With each level the damage increases.

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Rise and Fall (Advanced)
Level	1	Experience	0%
Damage	Weapon damage + 100-150	Ki consumption	50
Description
A powerful combination of an upward slash, a 360° slash and a downward slash is released upon the opponent. With each level the damage increases.

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Velocity (Advanced)
Level	1	Experience	0%
Damage	Weapon damage + 125-150	Ki consumption	50
Description
A powerful series of slashes forming an & is released upon the opponent dealing a tremendous amount of damage as well as having the ability of disarming the opponent. With each level the damage increases.

Ki skills

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Swiftness (Advanced)
Level	1	Experience	0%
Speed increase	450%	Ki consumption	10 per minute
Description
One imbues his feet or arms with ki effectively, dramatically increasing one's speed. Speed increases with every level.

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Tempered body (beginner)
Level	10	Experience	0%
Defense increase	200%	Ki consumption	10-100 per minute
Description
One imbues his cells with ki effectively raising the defensive of their body by a large amount. The ki consumption varies depending on the amount of the body that is covered. Every level the defensive capabilities of tempered body raise. After a threshold is reached, lower leveled weapons may no longer harm the user.

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Buzzard shot (intermediate)
Level	1	Experience	0%
Damage	Arrow damage + 120-160	Ki consumption	50
Description
An arrow is imbued with ki and the ki is forced to swivel around the arrowhead at rapid speeds afterwards, the arrow is fired at a target with a highly penetrative effect. The damage increases with each level.

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Thunderous fist (advanced)
Level	1	Experience	0%
Damage	300-350	Ki consumption	200
Description
You cover your first with ki and strike your opponent with it. Once the fist makes contact with your target the ki bursts forward and explodes within the target, causing a large amount of internal damage. The damage increases with each level.

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Crashing waves(Advanced)
Level	5	Experience	15%
Damage	Greatsword damage + 20-2000	Ki consumption	10-1000
Description
After the greatsword connects with something, increasingly stronger waves of ki are sent to the contact point until the enemy is no longer able to endure. There are currently ten waves of ki emitted and the cost of the skill increases with each wave. With each level the damage increases.

Mountain strike(Advanced)
Level	1	Experience	0%
Effect	Knock-up	Ki consumption	50
Damage	+150-200	Ki consumption	50
Description
Ki is imbued to the greatsword and the enemy is struck with an upwards strike, knocking the enemy in the air. With each level the damage and knock up duration increases.

Devouring Chaos (intermediate)
Level	3	Experience	26%
Defense	+100-560	Damage	100-560
Damage range	2 meter radius around caster	Ki consumption	100-560
Description
You deplete a large amount of your ki energy and shroud yourself with it. Upon releasing the chaos ki that is within it rapidly starts to attack everything within a small radius of you. This skill serves both as defense and offense. Defensively the aura is able to completely block energy strikes or magic spells that are weaker than the aura. The damage, the range, the max output and the defensive strength increase with each level.
Derivated skills
Devouring chaos blade	The aura gets transmitted to the sword and sent towards the target in the form of sword energy.

Magic skills

Gravity (beginner)
Level	1	Experience	10%
Range	5 meters	Mana consumption	25
Description
You command the nearby earth and wind elements to rapidly pull surrounding objects to you. When the level of this skill increases larger objects can be pulled to you. Current limit: 10 KG

Earth lance (beginner)
Level	1	Experience	1%
Piercing damage	15-15	Mana consumption	15
Description
You create sharp earthen spikes in a small cone near your feet. The damage increases with each consecutive level.

Mist (Advanced)
Level	1	Experience	33%
Range	25 meter radius around the caster	Mana consumption	100
Description
You cover a large area around you in a shrouding mist. One cannot see anything within from the outside and the visibility within is severely limited. The caster is able to create corridors to escape from the mist. The range and density of the mist increase with each consecutive level.

Flash fire (beginner)
Level	10	Experience	100%
Range	15 meter radius around the caster	Mana consumption	300
Damage	200-250	cast time	5 seconds
Description
You cause a flash fire to surge forth from you, reducing everything along its path to ashes. The range and damage increase with every level while the cast time reduces with each level.

Metamorphosis (beginner)
Level	3	Experience	3%
Duration	1 hour	Mana consumption	50
Description
You gain the ability to completely change your appearance, perfectly disguising yourself from others.

Racial skills

Racial skill unlocked: Blood awakening
Health cost	90% of max health	Battle-related stat increase	200%
Skill cost reduction	80%	Skill duration	60 Seconds
Description
You burn your life force for an enormous increase in strength. This skill can only be used once a day and only when you are at full health and you cannot receive heals for the next five minutes.

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Racial skill	Battle might
Level	1
Effect	All battle-related stats and passive battle skills are increased by 50% and a domineering aura is released.
Requirement before usage	Filled battle blood meter
Description
Albeit a shy race, the Zuno boast tremendous battle might. Normally their potential does not get unlocked. It is only in extreme situations that they will show their full potential. Extra levels to this skill improve the effect and effective range of the aura.

Cultivation related skills

Heavenly cloud condensation (advanced)
Level	1	Experience	0%
Description
A ki refinement technique in which one condenses the nearby ki before allowing it to enter one's body. Through careful and continues condensation one can create pure ki that can be immediately absorbed in the body. This bypasses the usual way of refining the ki within the body and allows one to absorb pure ki at a far faster rate than usual. However an incredible amount of concentration is needed to condense the ki and a temporary lapse in concentration can cause death or the destruction of one's dantian.
Level effects
Ki condensing speed	+100%	Concentration needed	-25%

Nature's gifts of the elements (advanced)
Level	1	Experience	5%
Description
You command the nearby elements to congeal into a pellet which is then consumed and used to create a mana seed within the body. After the initial source of mana is created, any further pellet that is consumed can be used to grow the mana seed.
Level effects
Mana seed creation speed	+100%	Concentration needed	-25%

Bestow Cultivation (Beginner)
Level	2	Experience	25%
Time required	00:15:00	Ki required	100
Effect	Creates a dantian within a weapon	Maximum material grade	rare
Maximum material level	level 50
Description
You have found a way to create a dantian and ki channels within a weapon which gives it the ability to cultivate and which greatly reduces the ki costs for skills as long as the weapon's ki has not depleted.
Unique effect
Weapons you have given a cultivation level cannot hurt you with their ki as it originally belonged to you and instead an attack by such a weapon will cause your ki to regenerate.

Kirin

Companion info
Name	Kirin	Race	Hellhound
Level	45
Stats
Health	2500	Ki	1500
Strength	195	Dexterity	100
Vitality	125	Intelligence	45
Skills
Dark flame lvl 11	Launches purplish-black fireballs at the target which ignore resistances and deal true damage. - Subskill: flamethrower. Unleash a fiery breath in a small cone in front of itself.
Bite lvl 10	Fiercely bites the opponent, dealing a large amount of damage.
Dark rush lvl 5	Covers oneself with the fire of hell and rushes at the opponent, tackling them down. Deals a massive amount of damage.

Cindarrah

Companion info
Name	Cindarrah	Race	Hellweaver
Level	32
Stats
Health	1200	Mana	2000
Strength	30	Dexterity	60
Vitality	60	Intelligence	175
Skills
Web shot lvl 9	Shoots out an ball of web that explodes on contact and envelopes the target.
Leech lvl 8	Drains life from the opponent. When used on a target that is under the influence of web-shot it deals double the normal damage.
hallucinogenic poison lvl 3	Bites the target and poisons them with a highly hallucinogenic poison, causing the target to be unable to distinguish friend from foe.