As morning came Thomas crawled into bed and mumbled "Too... Tired." Once he was completely on the bed a smiled and said "Now I can rest for a while." After laying there for a while Opal floated into the room and said "There you are." Opal began to poke him as she said "He's still asleep?" Opal continued to poke him as she said "I can't be too rough with him, Mary already warned me about his condition." After poking him for about a minute she just decided to pick him up and float off with him down the stairs and towards the guild. As she arrived to the guild with him she set him down at the counter and said "I brought him like you asked."
Jules stared at Thomas for a few seconds and asked "Is he okay?" Opal glanced at Jules and said "I don't know, this is how I found him." Jules sighed and said "I can't ask him for methods to get stronger when he's like this." Opal floated off and said "I was only told to bring him to you, waking him is your job, I'll take my leave now." As Opal left Jules said "Hey, don't just leave, help me!" Once she was gone Jules stared at Thomas and asked "What the hell am I supposed to do now?" Jules stared at him for a few seconds and said "Maybe I should ask someone else what he does to get stronger?" Jules sighed and said "I wish I could've asked Malice how she got stronger, but all she'll tell me is, I was born strong, she's really lucky to be so strong."
Jules stared at Thomas for a few seconds and said "I do have a spell that causes nightmares." Jules put his hand on Thomas's back for a few seconds and said "Please don't be mad at me for this." After a few seconds Thomas shot up and fell onto the floor breathing heavily and then mumbled "It was a dream?" Thomas glanced up at Jules and asked "Why am I at the guild?" Jules stared at him and said "Opal brought you here because I asked her to." Thomas put a hand on his own head and mumbled "I'm still tired." Jules stared at Thomas and asked "Well since your awake do you mind telling me a good way to become stronger." Thomas stared at him for a moment and asked "Why didn't you just ask Opal?"
Jules sighed and said "She told me to live life with boulders tied around my feet and to drag them around everywhere I go." Thomas stared at him for a few seconds and said "I technically did the same thing before, why didn't you at least try it though?" Jules stared at him and said "Unlike you, I don't think I'd be able to carry them around like they're nothing, they seem kinda hard to ignore." Thomas thought about it for a moment and said "I normally used the boulders tied to me as a weapon." Jules flinched and asked "Are you serious?" Thomas nodded and said "It's a pretty effective weapon, I don't think I'd prefer it, but I could definitely use it if it was my only option." Jules stared at him in amazement and said "I'm not sure if I should be surprised or not but I'm amazed either way."
Thomas got back up and sat down while yawning and saying "It happened a while ago so I guess it's not really important." Jules held up a power module and asked "So do you think getting stronger with this or without will be better?" Thomas stared at the module for a moment and said "It'll probably be easier to get stronger using that thing." Jules nodded and said "It'll obviously be better, but do you think I should try to also physically become stronger." Thomas snapped his fingers and made the shirt appear on the counter and said "See if you can lift it." Jules stared at the shirt and asked "Is this some kind of joke?" As Jules grabbed it and tried to lift it he paused for a moment and asked "Why won't it budge?" Jules began to pull on it harder and harder as he shouted "It won't move!"
Thomas picked the shirt up easily with one hand and said "This shirt is five tons, they sold these at an adventuring shop, I think you should try to wear it for a while." Jules stared at the shirt for a while and asked "Are you trying to kill me?" Thomas stared at him confused and asked "But don't you want to become stronger?" Jules nodded and said "Exactly, I want to become stronger, not deadweight." Thomas picked the shirt up and asked "Is this really that heavy?" Jules glared at him and asked "Do you really not understand what it means to be a normal person?" As Mira walked into the guild she glanced at him holding the shirt and asked "Were you planning on using that?"
Thomas glanced at the shirt and said "No, I offered Jules to use it but he said it's too heavy." Mira took the shirt and asked "Do you mind if I borrow it for a while?" Thomas glanced at her and said "Sure, you can use it." Jules watched as Mira walked out of the guild while carrying the shirt and said "Other people besides you can carry that?" Thomas nodded and said "Yup, they haven't been slacking all this time you know." Jules sighed and said "I can't hope to catch up with you if I'm not even close to their level." Thomas stood up and said "Now that I think about it, I should probably increase the weight to something heavier then I'm used to." Jules glanced at him and said "Take me with you!"
Thomas stared at him for a moment and said "I guess I could take you." Thomas pulled him closer and said "But I need you to do me a favor and keep quiet about this." Jules nodded and said "Of course." As they appeared in a shady underground Jules glanced around and asked "Where are we?" Thomas began to walk ahead as he said "This is the black market, if someone wanted you dead they'd probably come here." Jules grabbed a paper off of the wall and pointed at it while saying "This is you, and the bounty ain't cheap, what did you do?" Thomas thought for a moment and said "I don't remember." Jules slapped the paper back into the wall and shouted "Bullshit you don't remember."
Thomas walked into a building and said "I'm being serious, I don't remember." Jules followed him and mumbled "Lying bastard." As Thomas entered the building he caught a bottle that was thrown at his head from a lady who was shouting "Get the hell out of here you damned bastard!" Thomas walked over to the counter and said "It's been a while." The lady glanced at him and said "Oh your that boy from earlier, what can I do for ya?" Thomas thought for a moment and said "I'm looking for clothing heavier then five tons." The lady pulled out a piece of paper and said "Weighted clothing, that's pretty easy to get." The lady handed the paper to Thomas and asked "Now what about your friend over there."
Jules nervously approached her and said "I'm also looking for ways to get stronger." The lady looked at him up and down and said "I hope your looks fool me as much as his." Jules stood there and said "No, unfortunately I don't have the same monstrous strength as him." The lady handed him a paper and said "Monstrous strength, he's considered weak down here, and his bounty is pretty low to." Jules stared at her and asked "Wait are you serious?" The lady nodded and said "It's like that saying, there's always a bigger fish in the sea." Jules glanced over the paper and said "All of these items are so strange." The lady held a feather and said "Those are ingredients that can be ground up and cooked with to enhance your strength."
Jules stared at the feather she held and asked "What does that do?" The lady smiled and said "This feather will make you quicker, I'd recommend grinding it into a powder and using it as a salt though." The lady pulled him closer and said "Eating monsters is often an efficient way to become stronger, however most of the monsters flesh and blood and other parts are highly poisonous or don't have any effect." Jules grabbed the feather and asked "How much is it?" The lady thought for a moment and said "Ten gold, but because you know him I'll give it to you for five."
Jules stared at her in amazement and said "Consider it done." As Jules handed her the money Thomas picked something to buy and said "I'll take the twenty five ton shirt and the twenty five ton pants." Jules glanced at him and shouted "Are you insane?" The lady glanced at Thomas and said "Picking extremely heavy weights again I see." Thomas nodded and said "Yup, it's the best way to get stronger." The lady smiled and handed him a hard shell and said "Call this future investment, it's on the house." Thomas stared at the shell and asked "What's this?" The lady smiled and said "I hear your weak to mental attacks, this should help defend against them."