I’ve Been Reincarnated as a Tentacle Slime~ I Want to Live a Comfortable, Secure Life and Do Whatever I Want~ - Chapter 126

[Now that we’ve finished with the two guilds, shall we start leveling up?]

[Father-sama, before that, I have a suggestion.]

[Hmm? Rafa, is there anything else we need?]

At the Magic Armor Guild, I ordered bronze magic armor and learned how to use it.

At the Apothecary Guild, I learned how to heal Christia and the nursery girls, as well as the materials for intermediate healing potions.

I think that should be enough already…

[Big sis Rafa! It’s the Spada Cathedral!]

[That’s right. Don’t you think we should also research our skills?]

Wouldn’t it be fine to level up first?

[What’s the reason it would be better to do it now?]

If you don’t know, it’s better to ask. Pretending to know will cause trouble later.

[The first reason is to narrow down the monsters we kill when leveling. Let’s level up by hunting monsters that have skills we can’t learn with skill orbs and then devour them. For skills that can be solved with money, we can just pay if necessary.]

Got it. They did say we couldn’t learn skills like [Charm]. It would be more efficient to level up skills at the same time.

[But in that case, wouldn’t it be fine to hunt monsters that don’t have the types of skills Natalie mentioned?]

[It’s not necessarily only the skills Natalie mentioned, you know? There’s information she can’t disclose to us. Or perhaps she didn’t mention skills like [Cooking] or [Metalworking], which aren’t related to the Adventurer’s Guild.]

I see. I had assumed the skills Natalie mentioned were everything, but if that’s the case, it would mean other guilds wouldn’t be able to level up their skills. That can’t be true.

[I see. So, what’s the second point?]

[The second point is to resolve our lack of knowledge about skills!]

[That’s right, Kouga. Right now, we’ve just arrived in the city, so we can make excuses for not having high levels. But if we’re level 35 and still don’t understand skills, our evaluation could drop.]

I see. We know a little about our original world, but we almost know nothing about this world. We’ve been learning a bit from each guild, but we’re still overwhelmingly lacking.

[Alright, then let’s go to the Spada Cathedral. It’s probably that huge, extravagant building over there, right?]

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It’s a magnificent cathedral that looks like it came straight from an image search. It’s predominantly white, but with red accents here and there, making it clear that it’s the symbol of this town. It’s probably as extravagant, if not more, than the castle where the Earl lives in the distance.

We enter through the cathedral’s entrance, which is modeled after a black-and-white gate, intricately carved with fine details.

The interior is luxurious, with white and black as the dominant colors and red accents scattered throughout.

I’m glad I brought Kouga and the others. This might give us some inspiration for future building projects.

“Hello, welcome to Spada Cathedral. How may I assist you today?”

As I walked down the hallway among the other townsfolk, a woman in splendid nun’s attire, more luxurious than Sister Tirie’s from the village, called out to me.

On top of that, I noticed her belly was about the size of someone who was 7-8 months pregnant. In fact, it seems a good number of the other nuns are pregnant as well.

(With this many pregnant women working, how badly are they lacking in staff…?)

“I was thinking of learning some skills.”

“I knew it! I thought so. If you go that way, you’ll reach the chapel. Skill learning is over here.”

While being guided by the pregnant nun, I decided to ask her something that had been on my mind.

“That’s amazing. It must be tough being pregnant like that.”

“Those who become clergy are often the most devout in the Dungeon religion, so it’s normal.”

Even with remarks that might come off as sexual harassment, the nun responds with a smile.

(Seriously… Working while pregnant is too devout.)

There probably wasn’t maternity leave back in those days, so maybe this was normal… Even so, I think it’s a tough thing to do.

“Sister, you must be a very devout clergy member.”

“Hehe, thank you. This will be my sixth child.”

She still looks like she’s in her teens, yet she’s had so many children. I wonder if her husband is extremely potent? She’s so cute, I’d probably impregnate her a lot too.

“It’s really impressive. To take care of that many children and work while pregnant. You must be extremely devout to do something like that.”

“Huh? Were you not complimenting me for having six children?”

“Eh?”

“”…Eh?””

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Looks like I misunderstood. After hearing the explanation, it seems that working while pregnant is normal in this era.

Moreover, I thought Dungeon religion was a cult because they consider getting pregnant and making others pregnant acts of virtue, but it turns out it’s actually one of the most powerful religions in the world. It seems that almost all the citizens in this town follow the Dungeon religion.

(So, the reason the public baths were so freely permissive and no issues arose from impregnating Natalie might be because of their sexual openness.)

From what I’ve heard, having children is considered a good thing in order to gain dungeon expansion bonuses. It’s also considered virtuous to go into dungeons and earn money. Apparently, the religion’s teachings are solely based on dungeon-related matters. They also have a facility at the church, kind of like an orphanage or educational institute, to raise the children they’ve had. They say the operational funds are more than enough thanks to donations.

It’s hard to believe that rape is considered a significantly lesser crime than theft. That’s terrifying.

“I see… So, having many children is something to be proud of. It must be tough for your husband, though.”

“I’m single, you know? In fact, most clergy members are single, as we dedicate ourselves to God.”

“Huh…? Then, who’s the father of the child…?”

“The father could be either a priest, someone from the public baths, or a donor who made a generous donation.”

(Wow… So, she doesn’t know who the father is… Well, I guess common sense varies from country to country. If the world is different, maybe that’s just how things are…)

I realized there was no point in thinking about it any further, so I stopped.

Chapter length 2509 characters.