Versatile: Alternate World

Just like what Janus shouted earlier, things have gotten significantly better as the surroundings have already returned to normal. I also don't need to be careful on every step as the ice that has formed on the floor has also melted along with everywhere else where those ice particles have formed before.

"The temperature has gone up and returned to normal already. I don't know what happened but it seems the situation has gotten better outside," Janus pulled out the heat packs from his body and removed the jacket he is wearing now.

Everyone also removed the covers they put in their bodies that shielded them from the cold. They looked refreshed now that the temperature has gotten better.

"Have you tuned in to the news? Maybe they have an idea of what happened and why it suddenly returned for the better?" I turned to look at the television.

"We are still waiting for the news at the moment. It should be coming a few moments for a bit and I am sure they will immediately give an update already. Oh, speak of the devil, here it is."

The news flash appeared after a few advertisements passed by and I can easily tell it was an update as they didn't even announce it on official news. It's just a flash update but that is what I needed right now.

[News Flash! We have good news to bring about the weather change that occurred a few hours ago. At approximately 5 in the afternoon, the weather has returned to normal in the entirety of Tokyo and its surrounding areas. Reports have arrived at us that only Tokyo and its surrounding areas are currently experiencing the change and the other parts of Japan have yet to return to normal. Experts are still trying to find the reason for the sudden change in Tokyo's weather and why the situation all around the world is still the same...]

The news keep going after that but I already knew what I wanted to know and I didn't expect that the single portal I closed was enough to let the whole of Tokyo recover its weather. It was a small portal but it already affected a whole big coverage of the area meaning the other portals seems to be also connected to it.

Still, I am quite worried. Knowing that it isn't just a normal portal is still quite troublesome.

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Two days passed by quickly. Yesterday, the siblings finally managed to activate their abilities just like Rika who is also progressing her abilities quite splendidly. Akira's ability manifested and his ability is related to defensive capabilities just like in the past timeline. His powers involve hardening his skin and making it as hard as metal. His strength also has a drastic increase. As for Sora, her ability is just as I expected. However, his specialty magic changed from fire to ice and water elemental magic. It was different from what happened in the past timeline and I am a bit confused as to why it was different but I didn't complain as that change is still better. After all, just being able to use two elements in your first awakening is not something to be scoffed about.

Janus is quite jealous and decided to train his best instead to also gain abilities like them but because he is just newly exposed to the Alternate World game and has just started his training to awaken his mana, not to mention that he is still using the cabin version, I doubt he will awaken his abilities soon though but who knows?

As for me, my mana pool has already expanded quite greatly than ever before. Perhaps my actions of closing the portal before have greatly expanded it but who knows, but it certainly is not due to my training that's for sure.

Right now, I am just waiting for the maintenance of the Alternate World to finish up. While waiting, I am currently writing some design patterns on what to do with the scales and plan on expanding the repertoire from that. It is certainly necessary for me to keep track of that for later on for references.

But it wasn't easy to come up with ideas on making things out of that scale especially since I am in the real world and there aren't any existing tools that are good enough to perform a bit of the processing from it so I am limited to things that I can make. Maybe it will expand in the future but we will just see.

DING!

My homophone gives me a notification and that is just what I am waiting for. The notification for the servers to open.

I lie down on my bed and log back into the game. I don't know if I am still in the middle of the horde but I hope I am not. After all, I got kicked out of the game after failing to log out before the allocated time to log out from the game passed by. We will see what is going to happen.

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[Welcome Back, Bladeheart]

I returned to the game and just like before, I am still underground and there are no changes from that, but I am certainly no longer in the area where I fought the monsters before. The location I spawned in is not too far from the battlefield spot where the portal was.

'Perhaps I died?'

I have no idea if I did. But just to make sure, I opened my inventory and check whether I lost something from my belongings since something will definitely drop from my inventory if ever I died back then.

But to my surprise, I didn't have any items lost. All of them are intact and they are not lacking even a single one of them. Kind of strange but it is a blessing knowing that I didn't die back then.

The next thing I did is to check the patch notes. Without knowing why they did sudden maintenance, I needed to see what the hubby is all about.

To my surprise, the patch notes are not related to the whole game's progress or bug-related things that they will need to fix immediately. Nothing game-breaking bugs either which is kinda strange since they don't do something like emergency maintenance for anything and they only do that if a very big game bug appeared that ruins the game experience.

The patch notes did not mention any of that, instead, the patch notes instead have a major change for a specific class and that is the Versatile Class. The pit in some fixes on other matters but it was clear that it was just some additional things added so that they can find some excuse on doing big maintenance like this just to change a character class. Even in the past timeline, I have not seen any changes from the past timeline or anything related to the Versatile class so why all of a sudden? Is it because of how I play the game? Is that maybe the main reason?

Maybe that is the reason but I still hope it wasn't a big nerf. Things would get really bad if that occurs.

First, let's read the patch notes and see any kind of things that have changed to the Versatile Class.

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[Class Tree Overhaul for the Versatile Class]

Reason for the changes: Due to the complaints about keeping track of all skills the Versatile Player needs to do, the team decided to overhaul the whole skill tree and rebuild it for easier and player-friendly skill tree navigation. Here is the list of changes that involves the Versatile Class.

1. SP or skill points will be removed from the Versatile Class. Due to the difference in skill trees of Versatile Class, it was first divided as the Level up SP where you can use it like usual to unlock a specific skill in any class, and the individual Class SP in which you can only use that to unlock a certain class skill using those points which you can earn by using a skill from that specific class weapon or skill related to the class.

2. Introduction to the Class Levels only for the Versatile Class. Since skills are divided into tiers, specific tiers can only be unlocked if you reached a certain class level from that specific class. Just like before, it needed the user to use a specific class weapon or skill to accumulate class experience. For players who already invested quite a huge amount of skill points in some classes, the system has already converted them to experience points. In certain level thresholds, tiers of skills will be unlocked correspondingly.

3. Just like before, to obtain a skill, you need to purchase it. However, this time around, you can only obtain one skill, one level at a time. For example, if your Swordsman class level has reached level 5, you can choose 5 Swordsman class-specific skills, whether it was passive or active skills, doesn't matter. Also, holding up on the skill level and skill selection will not work here. To unlock a certain tier of the class, you will need to obtain a specific number of skills from that previous tier before the next tier will be unlocked. Choose wisely.