Maria had put it off a while ago because she was too busy exploring Gaia but now that she was faced with a wall that was the Advanced Class, she finally remembered that she could do that as well. There were many skills and stat multipliers that were locked behind the second class advancement and Maria had been handicapping herself all this time because she had completely forgotten about it. She had received many other power-ups that closed the gap in stats between her and the players who had completed their Second Class Advancement but compared to an NPC, she’d definitely lose out against them. The earlier NPC was the first Second Class Advancement NPC that Maria had encountered in the game and the feeling that NPC gave off was like an insurmountable mountain. Back when she was fightin