Versatile: Alternate World

What? Overhauling the skill tree? I don't know if I would be happy about this change or not. The fact that they removed the SP earned by the Versatile Class and have all skills locked behind levels seems to be a bad move to me. Now, Versatile Player skills are locked out at class level and if they wanted to have a specific skill that they needed in a specific class, they will need to either use a skill of that class or use its weapon to level it up and hopefully reach a high level to reach it. They will be forced to focus on either one or two classes to level up and hopefully get a good and high enough level to get each skill.

I continue to read as there is still one more patch note left aside from what I just read.

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4. To those players who have unlocked some Secret Skills from unlocking some skills before, the secret skills will remain but the skills that were bought by SP or class sp will not be available until the player manually unlocked them themselves.

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I didn't expect that I will retain the secret skills I got before these changes. That is good if I say so myself. But it's not as reassuring when all of the skills that are needed to unlock them are once again necessary to be selected again for purchase.

There are no more changes from the Versatile Class and they didn't improve the Versatile Class's exp bar's ridiculous amount of experience needed just to level up. Guess they still love to torture the Versatile Players.

Closing the patch notes, the next part of the agenda is to check the skill tree and see what are the current levels of all the classes I have and see how much I got for levels and how far do I have to level them up just to use them up again.

When I opened up the class tree, there are some classes that have very high and significant levels and there are some that barely have any experience points in them. Maybe because I rarely ever use them or I only have used their passives instead that the levels are these low.

Currently, the class levels of all my skills are like this.

Swordsman: Level 15

Samurai: level 4

Alchemist: level 3

Ninja: level 3

Assassin: Level 5

Hunter: Level 9

Cleric: Level 27

Paladin: Level 40

Holy Knight: Level 10

Magic Knight: Level 51

Magician: Level 50

Fighter: Level 5

Gunslinger: Level 21

Druid: Level 2

Berserkers: Level 3

Necromancer: Level 6

Chronomancer: Level 4

Cannoneer: Level 4

Saboteur: Level 20

By the way, all the class skills that an ascension class has can be selected at level 50 of that class. All ascension classes that certain classes have are unlocked at level 50. For example, a certain class has two ascension classes available, the Versatile Class can choose from both skill trees of those ascension classes once they reach level 50. Of course, I also needed to satisfy the requirements to choose them but for now, I don't think I have much to do with them right now.

Because it is a lot of trouble to check all of them up while I am in a hostile zone, I decided to just pick up the skills I am sure that I will use at the moment. With the Magic Knight and Magician classes up to level 50, I can grab straight all of the starter skills I have before. I also didn't forget to grab some passives as well.

As for the rest of the skills, I will do that later once I am sure I will no longer be busy and no longer have to worry about the monsters all around the place.

Now that I am done, I continue to proceed and check the portal before. That is my target to clear today.

I continue to proceed slowly as my passives are no longer the same as before. However, the unexpected happened. Before, a huge portal that spawns monsters should be currently floating above the air, ready to release different kinds of abominations. But that expectation is not what I am seeing right now. In fact, it was missing.

Yes, the portal is missing.

It is a relief that it is no longer there but where did it go? I am quite sure I never closed it before the maintenance occurred which is why I am confused as to why it is missing right now. One of the questions that popped out of my mind is... where is it?

It was a big portal and it spawns monsters. It is impossible that I am just confused about where it was located before and where I am now. I am quite certain that where I am right now, should also be the place where the portal should also be located too.

Looking around the area didn't help as there isn't any signs that the portal existed there before. More like nothing is currently connected to the portal incident at all making me tilt my head in confusion.

Where did it go?

As much as I want to think about where it was, it's not the right time for me to keep thinking about it. Now that it is gone, it's time to proceed and continue the progress to go and fight back.

Pulling out the map that I made before, I called out to Lina.

"...Master. It seems you are safe."

"I apologize for not saying anything and letting you guys worry about me about making myself fight the monsters alone."

"Yes, Master. You didn't know how worried we were when you did that. We know that you can just revive somewhere if you die but you are always making sure that you won't have to die and make a priority of staying alive most of the time. So even if you wanted to sacrifice yourself, you should have said or explained something to us. We are not just going to be standing there and do nothing too."

"I'm sorry. That won't happen again. This time, I will explain things to everyone. Anyways, are you fine to explore again? We will be going to continue the exploration progress that halted earlier."

"Yes, Master. We are ready whenever you are ready. Summon us as you will."

"Let's go. If my assumption is correct, another portal might appear again once we move closer to our current destination."

"Master, we finally gained some idea on how to close the portal."

​ When Lina said that, I turned to look at her in surprise. A way to close the portal? That is something that I have to hear. It might even help me learn how to efficiently close the portal back in the real world too."

"Let's hear it while we walk."

"Yes, Master. So while we are stuck in the summon's area after you recalled all of us, the young half angel and half devil woke up. As you can remember, Atlas-san is the one who is handling him and ever since he is in the summons area, he is sleeping without any signs of waking up. Just the other day, he woke up with a nonchalant yawn."

"At that time, we are still discussing how to close the portal since we assumed you have died because our calls were not being answered so we decided to discuss how to solve and close the portal up. That's when he decided to join our conversation."

"He just joined the conversation without anyone inviting him?" I frowned. Knowing the personality of the kid, I was surprised it went well and they managed to get good info out of him without much problem.

"Right? It was so surprising I didn't know it would happen like that. His participation in our conversation though is proof that he is not always a prick most of the time. Atlas-san didn't even need to step in to stop the kid. The kid is just conversing with us like normal. Since it was the very first time for us to speak with him, it was awkward at first but thanks to Gobu's ability to talk over someone easily and keep the conversation going, we soon managed to talk to the guy and learn some things from him."

"Now, here is what we learned. During the conversation, he mentioned that the Portals might be holes from a certain reality and were connected to our world. Treat it as a normal gate that we use to ward off strangers away from our yard. If it is remained open, it will normally invite multiple unwanted visitors. That's when he said the main way to stop the portal from functioning. Currently, there are two ways to do it."

"First is the normal way, close it by overloading it with mana, causing it to collapse due to the amount of mana it cannot handle causing the portal to fail. The second one though is a bit different. The way to close it properly is to drain all the current mana the portal is currently holding to remain present in the world. Not only does it closes the portal, but it also increases the max mana pool of the current person closing the portal, making it extremely beneficial to magicians to close a portal if they see one by absorbing all the mana the portal possesses.