Versatile: Alternate World



Since it was our final rest until our battle against the Shogun, we decided to have one free day before the showdown. So I went back to the real world to check the status of everyone.

When I got out, everyone is busy helping my parents with the housework. I was surprised as they were not in the Alternate World right now.

"Oh, hey there, Manato. Morning," Dad greeted me as he continue seasoning some meat.

"It seems you just got out from the Alternate World. Just sit tight there as we are still preparing food. Thanks to the supplies you bought, we are good to go splurging for quite a while."

"That's great. Although I am not yet starving, I feel like we will be having a good meal for today! Let me help as well."

I started helping them and continue cooking. We ate breakfast with everyone after that.

After dinner, the girls wanted to explore Nagoya for a while and since my parents are free, they decided to accompany them and use the van that they bought with the Alternate World money that they earned themselves and might not be back until later this evening. The elves on the other hand are not too interested in travelling around and wanted to focus more on the research so they remain at home. As for Mr. Teddy, we continue to call him as he still doesn't want to tell us his real name is just doing what he usually does, having some exercise.

As for me, I don't have much to do with almost everyone gone and so I returned to the Alternate World to continue the little adventure that will be soon coming to a close.

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When I returned, it was still pretty much nighttime in the Alternate World. Although I am no longer bothered by the time conversion here compared to the real world, it's much better than we are taking long hours of exploring this world spanning from a few days, and when you return, only a day or two have passed.

I don't feel sleepy at all so I decided to review all of my skills this time around. I have not bothered much with the new skills that I got aside from the skills that I needed. It was like I lost all of the reasons for buying a skill due to how the Versatile Weapon seems to be handling everything and most of the skills I use can be replicated by using scrolls nowadays so aside from the passives, I have no more incentives to buy new skills.

But I am now a bit sick of not checking the skill panel in denial of using it but more of a lazy attempt to just not bother with the process of learning this and that. However, I can't escape that path. If I wanted to maximize all the power I have then I have to spend the points and buy new skills, and fight more enemies.

Now I am liking the way gunslingers fight. Add the fact that I can just pull the gun that seems cracked for some reason and aim it at a boss for an easy quick kill, you can say that this is something that I might even consider.

I also like a few of the skills that Queen Tori used before especially the yokai summoning. Since I have the summoning crystal needed for the Yuki-Onna, perhaps I could use some skills invested in the Onmyouji skill tree.

Archery seems also a great deal. I like how I can just go sneak and shoot on monsters using a bow and arrow, it's pretty enjoyable as time goes on.

Punching and kicking is something I am not so used to in the past timeline, but that changed when I finally got to try out the Fighter class. Using the gauntlet for fighting and punching enemies like there is no tomorrow, I think I see the appeal of it now, plus there are some kick skills as well, so it might not be that bad to also invest in them later as well.

Then, the healing skills which is governed by the skill tree of the cleric. As much as I keep on relying on potions, there is undoubtedly going to be a bad time when accessing inventory will be hard or sealed up, which will lock me out of any of the contents in my inventory. And one of them being locked out is the potions.

Since I am carrying loads of potions, it's gonna hit me hard if that indeed happens. So having extra ways to heal would be beneficial. It would be great to have a few more stuff in the future as well.

As for the rest, I think I can just run through them and see whether I might use them or not.

Because the skill trees of these classes are massive, I decided to just go and scour them on useful stuff as well. Looking at the points I accumulated for quite a while which is now amounting to a thousand since I have not spent much after the revamp, picking up the skills I might need will be easily purchased here and each class has those thousand points so the skills are not just relying on a single pool of thousand points, each class gets a thousand points.

Anyways, back to the skills. As always, great active skills will be great but will be expensive in points. Passives that have a great impact will also cost a lot. I will be needing to properly read a few of them and pick them out depending on my play style. A few years have passed by and I already have a good playstyle I have adapted which was incorporated by my experiences as a Magic Knight.

Aside from the normal passives and normal active skills, there are also those direct upgrades of the old skills. Life [Fireball]. It's a tier 1 skill, but how I am now capable of using the skill multiple times because I purchased one of the passives before that helps with the cooldown of the skills which is the [Magic Recast], a passive skill that allows me to reuse any magic skills that belonged to the Magician Skill tree for a total of 5 times before the skill hits its cooldown and [Aether Cooldown] which significantly reduces the cooldown of magician skills by a lot.

However, because I needed more firepower that can be really good in one cast instead of using it multiple times, upgrades will be definitely needed once more. Even a few skills needed them as well.

Then, I started planning. If I choose some skills, I have to ensure that they are not total mana hungry as the mana headache is pretty annoying and the only way to recover mana is to either stop using skills for a bit or drink potions. I also needed to ensure how practical they are, whether they can be useful for the long term or not, and whether it is gonna assist with the change or not.

Careful planning and calculations soon arrived me to a few conclusions. After jotting down a few skills, I soon found a few skills that look interesting, jot them down, and scour for more interesting skills in case the other skill might be more valuable or interesting compared to the other skills.

Comparing, checking, analyzing, you got it all as I slowly took over the whole night. The skill trees have a huge amount of skills and with a lot of tiers, a lot of skills are also there, waiting for me to see whether they are worthy or not.

Most of the time, they don't sound worth it, but after a few analyses, some of the skills seem to be a bit broken and some are just practical and useful in a different situation.

There are also some skills I found interesting but soon enough found out to be a bit of a double-edged sword. There are also some evolved skills that are useful in the beginning but soon get useless once upgraded further, making some of the upgrades, worth it or not.

At first, I didn't think I would finish up all of the evaluation but I did it. And I also regretted I didn't do this a lot sooner. There are lots of skills and passives that I have disregarded before to be absolutely cracked now after learning how to use them. Now that I can experience and use all kinds of weapons, some of the passives that don't make sense at first finally made some good sense of their own uses.

After marking all of the skills I might be buying, I made sure to double-check all of the skills that I marked down as potential purchases. And once I am quite sure that they are indeed good purchases, I made a checkmark on them and crash out the others I don't need. And I think I am happy with it.