I managed to get some actual sleep last night. I have no idea how many hours I slept, but Aurelia is the one that woke me up.
[You had a normal sleeping night
Your potential across skills increased by 30% for today!
Your stats potential increased by 25%!]
The better the bed and better the sleep the more potential I can get for stats and skills. The percentage is a direct increase on the amount of XP you gain for each skill. Is a percentage that can go up from eating or resting. Gaining XP reduces is.
It usually starts at 100%, and you consume it as you level up skills and gain XP. And because up to this point I have been sleeping on mats and the floor… Basically I have not had a good night sleep that the System considers worth to let me gain potential.
The only potential I have been getting has been from simple food, and the System doesn't tell you about how much you gain when you eat in skills.
Raw food and simple foods, like mushrooms or meat, can only increase stats potential, and is barely any amount. Either way, it only works when you are hungry, so I cannot just stuff my mouth with food and then go training for incredible gains.
But, basically, anything that is more than just a piece of meat cooked in a fire and nothing else works. Even putting some species in the meat makes potential go up.
[Spell Weaving Lv1+18 Potential 110%]
I should check my stuff more often… Potential for Spell weaving, the skill that affects my spells, went down to lower than 100% means less XP for Bloodless. That means each cast gave me less growth than the base value. Not good.
Speaking of Bloodless… What do we have there?
[Bloodless Level 18 Ego Weapon
+3400 MP
+14 Magic
+18 Spell Weaving
Increased Magical Damage +
+12 Magic Control
+2000 HP]
Magic is 19 (1 base + 14 on Bloodless) and Faith is 21 (1 base and 20 from the [Sacred Amulet of Demisaus of Renewal]).
So basically, now I have 2100 HP, 7500 MP thanks to the gem stones on Bloodless, Magic and Faith… Then I have MP regeneration from the necklace I appropriated from the Eye, with its resistances. I have good magical resistances so far, but against physical combat I have nothing. A well delivered sword cut could take a nice chunk of HP.
I am a glass cannon, basically. Aurelia's Buff has been keeping me alive by increasing my HP and damage resistance, but I cannot keep counting on her. She will not be around me all the time.
And Feats…
[Feat: Silent casting Lv3 MAX]
[Allows casting Mystic Spells or lower without the need to use words. This nullifies silence status]
I need to get more… they can be complicated to get and I used too much time to get only that one and get it to level 3 to cast Mystic level spells or lower without worrying about being silenced.
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After having breakfast in the inn we went to the townhall. Mayors are elected every 5 years in town by Federal laws… and as we walk we find people carrying signs and colourful banners.
"Rohan Russell and Talia Dawson…" I read the names outloud.
We are on election days… seems we got here the moment the propaganda started to be displayed so people know who the options are and what they are offering.
The last name Russell sounds familiar…
At the townhall, I ask about the mayor… the person that receives me looks at me up and down. She is wearing a long dress and has blonde hair held in a ponytail on the back. Her eyes are green.
"You are not going to meet the mayor Rusell without a meeting." She answers and returns to her documents.
"Hmph… rude…" Aurelia comments under her breath.
She was clearly not hired for her customer service skills.
"Good morning…" I answered, annoyed, almost sarcastic. "Can you please tell him that Amber came to visit him?"
She looks up and down at me once more.
I dislike her completely.
"Look, cutie, as I said, you cannot see him without a previously arranged meeting, he is busy right now and-"
"...as I said, the fish from the port of Kerval are the best in the whole world." A very deep voice came from the entrance we just came in. "No, as I said, I have the whole morning free."
In the entrance I see a big man with a lush mustache and beard wearing a blueish tunic. He enters with someone, talking about some fish from a certain town.
That is when he notices me and waves his companion goodbye. Then approaches me.
"Ah, talk to you later! I seem to have received some visitors!"
The man approaches us. I can hear the receptionist sighing loudly when he comes in walking.
"Good morning, Mayor. I left a message that arrived while you were out in your office." She comments.
"...wait, are you…?" He looks at me, inspecting my appearance. "Ah! Amber. I had heard you came into town! It has been a while, hasn't it?"
He puts his hand on my shoulder. The touch is weird, making me feel uncomfortable and out of place, I even felt him squeezing a bit while he smiles.
I remember having interacted with him in the game, now that I think about it. But nothing that complex, I just accepted a couple of rewards after I killed a bunch of monsters directly from him.
I did not think about it as a big deal.
"Why don't you come to my office, I have something to discuss with you. About your situation and some help I need to ask."
He turns to his secretary, who is now silent.
"I will be busy talking with my friend here. I don't want any interruptions unless it is an emergency." He comments.
The secretary stares at me with squinted eyes, like she is annoyed, and then nods.
"Understood, Mayor." she answers and returns to her documents.
"Aurelia, you are free to do as you please… just don't cause trouble." I tell her.
Aurelia huffs, while staring at the mayor.
Then at me. I twitch my mouth and then signal with my face towards the Mayor. Then she nods.
Time to find out what this man wants with me… and why he cannot get his hand off my shoulder.