Chapter 262 - Versatile, Jack Of All Trades And The Versatile Battle Maid (I)

I ate a bit of food after resting for two hours. After doing so, I jumped back to the game to join my parents and friends for the celebration. When I logged back in, confetti and a big surprise from everyone appeared before me.

"SURPRISE!"

I was prepared to see a chaotic place in my mansion but I didn't expect to see everyone surprise me with it like I have a birthday today. It's not worth it for them to prepare an elaborate surprise since I just won in the Arena but I appreciate the gesture.

"Congratulations, for the win, Bladeheart! Who would have thought you would be capable of pulling off that kind of tactic? Even I would have lost if I fought against Sigma in the finals!" Dolly said as he handed me a slice of cake that my mother baked.

And as expected, even though my mother's Ex Job Chef is not yet at a high level, it is already showing off the greatness of the food it can make with the abilities of the Ex Job Chef plus the innate talent of my mother in cooking, no one can top it off. If she fully develops the Ex Job's effects, she can easily become one of the top-class chefs at this point.

"She isn't easy to defeat indeed. If I didn't have a plan, I would have easily gotten killed without much struggle. Thankfully, I challenged her fully prepared and emerge victoriously. But slight miscalculation would have resulted in my loss in the process."

"I see. Seeing different people fighting in the arena motivates me to also get stronger. As strong as Sigma. Honestly, I think I am now a fan of her!"

I grinned hearing that from Dolly, she has been a fan of her since she appeared in public and easily defeated a few boss mobs by herself and also kept the teammates and NPCs that are dying alive which resulted in zero casualties. If Dolly saw her doing that, she might faint.

Anyways, everyone immediately congratulated me and the party in my mansion just keep on progressing more chaotic as time pass by. I won't bother elaborating it since it's more chaotic than ever and I don't remember almost half of what happened.

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After everyone logged out of the game to rest and take care of what their business to be done, I finally have time for myself to prepare for the class up quest of Versatile. Honestly, I don't have any idea what the class up quest of the Versatile Class was and even if I try to find a memory involving it, the only info I have in the past timeline about it is what the class up is and that's basically it.

Every basic class has its own class-up quests. Also, the most basic class has multiple class-up classes that are basically an upgrade to the basic class but focus on one aspect of that said class. For Example, a swordsman can choose between Hero, Dark Knight, Sword King, and Blademaster. Every upgraded class has its own perks and they are all unique from each other. Of course, a player can only choose between one of those upgraded classes. Once they choose one class, they cannot choose the other and they cannot change their mind either.

Now, I only said most and not all classes. That is because not all classes have multiple class-ups. According to those players who managed to become a level 100 Versatile and tried to get the class up the quest for the Versatile class, there is only one upgraded version of it and there are no other choices besides that specific class.

Although I am relieved that the Versatile has only one class up the quest, allowing me to not worry what class up quest should I choose, I won't just say this is easy to do since according to what the players who did the quest, failed a lot of times to clear due to some sort of event that happens in the middle of the quest. Due to this, they got a huge chance of failure than usual. It also didn't help that no one is willing to give info about it. Due to that, I can only trust my skills and instinct to finish this quest since this will be basically a blind run for me.

After preparing potions and some spare armor and other resources, I am now good to go. Goro will be coming along with me and even though I want to bring along his wife, she can't go since she is watching over her kids and the Priestess of the Stars.

I also plan to fetch Lina from the inn where she is helping her mother but when we are about to depart, I saw Lina in front of the mansion.

"Lina? I was just about to go and fetch you from the inn. I never thought you will be coming here personally."

"Actually Master. I already left the inn a few weeks ago and started to train for the Battle Maid promotion in our company. Thanks to your help and support, I came in first in the assessment exams allowing me to gain the highest honors that allowed me to gain the best enough support to help my mother. Now, I don't need to keep helping her since she already hired enough workers. Now, I can focus on my job as a follower of you. As a dedicated Battle Maid, I, Lina, have returned and ready to resume her duties as your Battle Maid."

Lina then proceed to kneel in front of me and paid respects. I still remembered Lina doing this gesture in the past timeline after I helped her gain recognition too. To think I would be seeing her doing this again made me a little bit nostalgic.

I smiled inside my mask and I helped her stand back up to her feet.

"It's good to have your back at a time like this."

After that, I explained to Lina our current situation and what I was about to do.

"Come to think of it, just a while ago, I saw your level hit 100 already. If that is the case, you are going to choose a new class for your class up rank?"

"That's right Master. That is also one of the main reasons I also came here since I also need some help regarding this. Since you are my master, it is normal for me to hold off my class-up job promotion. I wanted you to be the one who will choose what kind of class up I will be getting."

"I see. So we are already into that point, huh, then I am not going to make it hard for you. I want to see my selections for your class up for later. I bet you already have the selection of classes you will choose for the class up quest since you come here to ask for my opinion about this matter, right?"

"Yes. I can show it to you but since there are many selections, I don't know what to select at all."

She then swipe up her status and shared it with me. In the past timeline, I choose the battle-oriented class for Lina which is the Warmonger Battle Maid since I really need someone who can help me with combat during my time where I am too weak to handle strong enemies. Even though Lina became the strongest battle maid as the result of me choosing that class before, I regretted doing that since she lost a lot of potentials when she choose that class and I only realized it when she is already at the peak and I am already strong enough to understand the stats and some potentials.

During the time when Lina is not yet choosing her class up, her stats are high in magic and balanced between defense and attack. She also has a very high-speed stat which allowed her to become really swift in battle during the time I choose the Warmonger Battle Maid.

Her talents and potential were wasted when I choose the Warmonger Battle Maid so now that I am at the point of choosing her class up, I decided to avoid that class and automatically cancel that out of the choices.

There are 5 classes that her class has and since the Warmonger Battle Maid is out of the question, there are only 4 choices left to choose from. The remaining 4 are all different and the two classes focus more on magic which is the Elementalist Battle Maid and the Magic Sage Battle Maid. The other one focuses more on the defensive which is the Battle Maid of Iron. As for the other one, it is a balanced one, both specializing in magic and physical which is the Ultimate Battle Maid.

I was focused on the Magic-oriented classes that I didn't notice that there is another class hidden. It is similar to the other class with balanced stats. However, this class is different in many ways from the Ultimate Battle Maid.

Versatile Battle Maid

Prerequisites to unlock: Gain a deep understanding of how a Versatile class Works.

Info: A battle maid that has attained the mastery of all skills a maid and a warrior can possess. You can say that this is the Ultimate Battle Maid but due to her focus on more masteries, it might take a long time before she can be truly called the Ultimate of all Ultimate Battle Maids.

Info#2: Unlocks all the class trees of all Battle Maid classes available.. SP will be unlocked and talent modifier unlocked.