Versatile: Alternate World

12 hours pass by quickly and everyone who are away from the caravan returned. My parents, Hagane and Chase are now on their ascension and now ready to dive deeper as they are no longer barred with any level cap.

"What did you all get in your ascension classes?" I asked and everyone showed me their status boards.

Father has chosen quite a typical class named "Asura" which focuses on unleashing the full limits of close quarter combat. Mr. Teddy already has a class up and it was Martial Master. Comparing the two, the Martial Master is capable of unleashing different martial arts and adapting different combat styles, mastering them with ease and allowing on taking down foes in a stylish, and efficient way. As for Asura, it still focuses on close-quarter combat but in a more lethal way, and the burst of energy from every attack is very eyecatching. Most brawlers probably have chosen the Asura so yeah, definitely not an odd choice.

As for mother, her choice was not a buffer-oriented path of the alchemist like what I am expecting her to pick but the combat-oriented one which is the Element Manipulator. It focuses on conjuring different elements in the surroundings, very close to what a practitioner of Alchemy does but this class already mastered it and focuses on improving it. She can still do the same things she does in her past class but with much less focus since the other classes focuses on improving the duration and effects of those potions.

About Hagane, I expected him to choose the combat-oriented Paladin, the Knight Lancer but to my surprise, he had chosen the Iron Wall class, the ranked up class of the paladin that abandons the spear and focuses on using more shields. In short, his weapon is the shield. Strangely enough, his equipment still consists of the spear but once it is equipped, it becomes a shield. I don't know if it was fixed since Spear and Shield were inseparable from each other but I don't really care much. Now, Hagane is now much more durable. Much more durable than Iron who has his class as the Guardian who excels in both offensive and defensive.

As for Chase, since he was focusing on Combat Medic the entire time, he indeed picked it up since Combat Medic is one of the ascension classes of the Cleric. Combat Medic abandons the etiquette of being a support and this time, joins the frontlines by fighting back and healing allies. He also got an extra weapon which is the Syringe Gun. It wasn't a piece of equipment you can get since it was a class-specific class. You still retain the Ceremonial Staff, Holy Book, or a catalyst as your main choice of weapon so it's not even a choice of new equipment, just a new arsenal you can use to fight back. I have that if I choose to become a combat medic but I haven't used that yet so I don't have much experience in that area either.

This time, we have to change a cart to ride this time around since our participation is vital in the next battle. And as expected, our cart is the one in the very front of the caravan and is also the one leading the carts that carry one Sealer of Gods. This cart is being manned by none other than Almira.

"You guys must be the family and friends of my disciple. Good, you all have the potential. Make sure to help out later on in this battle. We will be fighting against a behemoth and you all are very important for the plan to succeed," Almira calmly stood there as she evaluates everyone else.

"Can we ask what we are going to do?"

"It's very simple and you guys are already doing it since earlier. Yes, that is right, you guys will continue doing the same thing as before but because it was the main frontline, we will have to use the specialized weapons that were designed to destroy the surrounding enemies that will attack our caravan. As for Bladeheart, you will be having a different task. I will be assigning you to help me fire the Sealer of Gods later on."

"What? Me?"

"Yes. The Sealer of Gods requires two people to fire this thing and even though you modified it to be useful enough that a single person can fire it by himself or herself without the help of others, having two people fire this thing off gives off the full power of this thing."

"Alright then, although I am not confident, I will do my best," I gulped since I have not fired this huge ballista that looked like a crossbow to me and I am afraid of missing using it.

"Straighten up boy, you are not the one who will aim since I know you are greenhorn on this and we don't want to risk using the [The Smite of the Fallen] then totally miss the target instead. That is a big bad no in my book, you know."

Soon, the soldiers are now shouting to each other to begin the expedition and it seems Queen Tanya and Queen Tina who are also in one of the carts carrying one of the Sealer of Gods are also agreeing to begin.

"Alright, everyone. I am counting on you all to protect the cart. The weapon is inside the cart and everyone can use it whether you are a healer or a fighter, anyone can use it. It's not a class restricted weapon anyways and it is exclusive only in this caravan so use it to your heart's contents!"

Everyone went inside and saw the box containing the weapons that Almira is talking about. It is a hand cannon. It was like the same cannon that m*gaman uses in battle. Everyone equipped it and the hands that they use to hold the item attached the small hand cannon to that place.

"Oh yeah, I feel like I am m*gaman now!" Hagane aims the cannon outside the cart.

"Oy, be careful with that. You can fire it accidentally if you are not careful. It was a pretty much destructive weapon so be sure to handle it with care and aim it only to enemies!"

"How do you shoot this one?" Chase asked.

"Just like how you guys use your skills, channel your mana to the weapon and it can do the rest, you just needed to aim and command to shoot it mentally on your mind. And you are set."

Because I was the one who will help Almira, I am not given a single one of those hand cannons and I can't even check their stats as it was hidden. Only Almira can do that and I sighed since that is a very good extra weapon to use especially since it can bypass the class restriction. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

Once the discussions and preparations are done, we departed from the first stop and continue our journey towards the deeper parts of the Expedition.

And we are not that far from the Castle of Snow when we heard a loud noise of a beast. I don't know which kind of beast that noise came from but it was a pretty clear sign that a behemoth is near us.

"That was fast. The Mistfall Turtle of the Damned is pretty near the first stop. That makes our battle plan much easier as we can just resupply again in the first stop if we fail on finishing this. Oh, everyone, prepare to fight now. I see enemies incoming!"

That made everyone stand up from their seat and aim their hand cannons, as for me, I can only watch as I don't have that weapon they are carrying and Almira forbid me to participate as that will only tire me faster. My energy will be needed to help on the Sealer of Gods so I have can only observe.

PEW!

The attacks shot by the hand cannon are very similar to the sound of some beam-related weapons with a "PEW" sound. However, despite the "Harmless" sounding "Pew" is released, the bullet that was released was not and the rampaging monster that was rushing towards the attack head-on was blasted to pieces in one hit and a big "BANG!" sound.

"What the heck are these enemies? They looked like turtles!" Harmless Sparrow commented as soon as she saw the appearance of the giant enemies attacking us. And unlike the slow walking turtles that landed on the sand, these guys seem like similar to tortoises that have only an upgraded speed and a mouth full of teeth.

"Looks like our enemy behemoth is a female! It already is giving us its welcome greetings!" Almira grinned, seemingly giddy upon knowing that it was a female Mistfall Turtle of the Damned.

"Female?! Then that means..." Dolly frowned as she looked at the enemies.

"Yeah, you guys are blasting her children right now. And as a mother, it wouldn't like it if their children were blown to smithereens by a bunch of humans. End of story!" Almira grinned.

And after saying that, the  roar of the Mistfall Turtle of the Damned echoed throughout the whole place and a strong shake to the ground shook all of us as the damnable turtle started moving.