Chapter 9: Chapter 8 – A good morning

I can pretty much fall asleep instantly and thanks to [Quick Sleeper] I only need 4-5 hours of sleep instead of 6-8, normally I use the extra time productively by raising the proficiency of my skills or leveling up by hunting. But my current position doesn't allow me to do that.

"Huu... huu..."

I am currently being hugged by a sleeping Silvia. She is hugging me not only with her arms but also with her legs, so my range of movement is quite limited. More importantly, I wouldn't want to move away even if I could, somehow, she has a nice smell even in the morning and her, albeit slightly forceful, hug feels nice, especially with her soft breasts pressing against my chest. I'm not some degenerate pervert by the way.

Originally people meditated to empty their minds and process the massive amount of information input they get every day. So, let's do just that for now, I can think about what to do about this later.

Hmmm... I already knew about it beforehand but when I came here first, I was still surprised, or rather delighted, to see demi-humans, longer ears, all kinds of hair colors, animal ears and tails or even horns, smaller and larger people, everyone walking around normally doing everyday things. It was quite the sight to behold. From what I could see everyone was treated pretty much the same, so at least in the royal capital of the Taluria Kingdom there doesn't seem to be racial segregation among the common folk, I can't be sure about royalty and nobility though.

Other than that, ... I noticed that some of my skills are influenced by how well I can perform those tasks in the normal world. [Cooking] for example was not only extremely easy to learn, but its proficiency is already at 40, compared to that, most other skills are around 10 to 50 even though I use some of them way more. Maybe it's also just a skill that needs less time to get better at. But that theory would explain why someone as geographically challenged as me has such struggles in getting the [Map] skill. Ah, [Meditation] is my highest skill with a proficiency of over 70. My gut is telling me something nice is going to happen once it reaches 100!

My current status is looking like this now.

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