Versatile: Alternate World

Chapter 562 The Next Patch Announcement

Two days have passed after I earned the EX Job and I officially mastered cooking like I was a chef from the very beginning. I am not sure what to think of it since I didn't have much practice like most EX Jobs do and how much they can influence someone in real life. Most of the time, if you are always practicing it, you would slowly integrate the things you learned in the game into the real world, allowing you to learn the fundamentals of things like you are learning from a master.

However, this EX Job is very different as I have not expected this to influence me too much. Not only my cooking capabilities have improved by a very big margin but it has already caused me to feel like I can just open my own restaurant and open up a business. I barely just got this EX Job a few days ago and yet, it has already affected me this much. Although it was not a bad thing, I am just confused on why I managed to become like this very fast even though I have not practiced cooking that much while I have this EX Job and yet, I feel like a pro already.

Even the others have already commended me on my cooking as they felt that I improved a lot. It's not like I just added more seasonings to the food I cooked but all of my manner of preparations have improved a lot.

And right now, I am at school listening to some boring lecture. There is nothing wrong with it, it's just I heard it before and I have the info on my head like it was already printed so I have no more interest to keep listening to it. I can even recite the whole thing if they wanted me to do so. Thankfully, the bell rang and class has finally ended. But everyone did not go home yet and instead went straight to the library.

"Sorry, Manato. Unlike you who got a very good memory, we have to cram our heads with the lessons to pass the tests. We will not be playing the game until the test is over so you have to play by yourself for now," Riko bid farewell and headed straight to the library.

"Yeah bro, as much as I like playing, I also don't want to flunk and miss the chance to graduate so I would rather have to cram books for a while," Janus also bid farewell to me and went with Riko.

The siblings also will have to study. Even Sora who is blind has noted braille letters so she will not be able to play with Akira who will also start studying. I am left without anyone to play games with. Yesterday, my parents wanted to go and visit my grandparents who are living in Fukushima and will stay there for a while so they will be not playing for a while too. I didn't forget to ask if the guy inside the bear suit who loves to work out and they said that he is still there and regularly works out by himself and occasionally goes inside the Reality Verse Cabin.

Perhaps he can play the game just fine even if he is a ghost? I don't know if he does or he just uses that as his bed. Anyways, since my parents are going to my grandparents, they asked him to guard the house while they are gone. I didn't know you can now ask a ghost to guard a house but that sounds very epic especially if you are friends with one. No burglar would dare to invade your house if that's the case.

Since everyone will not be at home for a few hours, I went to the market and bought some food. Recently, the elf is craving some veggies so I decided to buy some so that I can make food for her later on. Rika also wanted to eat some veggies since we keep eating meat for quite a while and she wanted to have a diet for now.

While on my way home, I received a notification on my holophone. I had custom notifications in my holophone that will notify me whenever I receive a message, call, or news about Alternate World. This time, it's the notification sound whenever the Alternate World will have any news released. I opened it up to see what is up with it and to my surprise, it was the incoming maintenance that will be happening 2 days from now. This means the recruitment would happen either today or tomorrow.

I sit down on the nearby bench and started reading the patches. I have already expected the patch to come but not this soon. I want to see what has changed and what remained the same.

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Official Patch Notes on Version: Luminous

After the maintenance, the following features will be implemented.

-Floating Continent of Angels and Fallen Angels: Luminous will be released.

-After the Expedition to the Luminous Continent is completed, all players will gain access to the continent immediately.

-4 new classes added to the game. Older players who wanted to change class will gain the chance to change classes once for free while the subsequent change classes that will happen again will need real money.

1.) Reaper

Weapon: Scythe

Info: Class that specializes in high damage and high crit attacks, forcing enemies to die and get their lives harvested. Can utilize the power of darkness to aid them in their jobs of collecting souls. The more the reaper kills, the stronger he gets. You can be the grim reaper if you wanted to!

2.) Onmyoji

Weapon: Talisman

Info: Using the powers of mystic arts and supernatural world, Onmyojis are a force to reckon with, allowing them perform attacks against enemies using their trusty shikigamis that can fight for them. They can perform both healing, defense and kill opponents. They are not your average exorcist.

3.) Dancer

Weapon: Chakram

? Info: Using the movements used for dancing, Dancers can fight offensively by dancing alone. Agile in their feet and nimble in movements, Dancers excels in dodging and delivering lethal attacks while also captivating enemies from their hypnotizing dances. Just because she only dances doesn't mean she can't proceed to kill you.

4. Puppeter

Weapon: Puppets and Dolls

Info:  Puppeters used to be using their puppets to entertain the audience, now they are using their abilities to control their puppets to fight. Gains the  ability to customize and make their own puppets for their own gameplay.

-Flight System will be introduced. Once players gets to access Luminous Continet, they will have to pass a tutorial quest that will allow them to fly in short distances. Angel and Fallen Angel races are exempted from this.

-New Races added: Angels and Fallen Angels(older players will get the chance to have a one time race conversion. Flight System will be available to you the moment you if you are an Angel or a Fallen Angel race.

-many more features that will not be revealed until the whole continent is fully open.

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It seems that they ommited a few new features implemented as it is not yet gonna be put immediately since most of the ommited features can only be seen and experienced once the continent stabilizes and the players other than the pioneers can enter this place.

Also, I expected only to have 3 classes to be released initially once the Luminous Continent is released but they decided to just add a new one which will only be released in the Kamikaze Continent which is the Puppeter. It seems Tojiro did some changes but having the puppeteer early will be a good idea. That means even Versatiles will now be able to make puppets and these puppeteers are pretty solid class as it is one of the broken classes I have encountered especially in the late game as they will not be able to control one, not two, and not three puppets but 10 maximum puppets.

Of course, you are extremely a mad man if you get to the point to be able to control 10 as controlling two is already hard to handle at times according to one of my friends in the past timeline who is using the Puppeter class.

As for the Reaper and Onmyoji, they are also classes I like to experience as they have cool mechanics too. But I have a problem with the 3rd class, Dancer. Don't get me wrong, that class is good and strong, but this class just mocks me to the point I might not even touch this class in the future.

In some games in the PC, Dancers can only be female. However, in Alternate World, dancers can be both genders and this allows players to be capable of using their dance moves to fight. In fact, I heard that a hip-hop dancer tried the game as a dancer and thrived using his hip-hop moves to battle. One of the most eyecatching stunts he did is during the PVP, he defeated a player by breakdancing. Not only the opponent was defeated, it was a perfect victory as he managed to kill the opponent who was practically cursing on trying to beat him up.

I need to go back to the game as soon as possible and start to prepare for the recruitment phase for the Expedition soon. Alright, time to hit the market, perhaps I can even hit the sales period and grab some goodies that are cheap.