It was now 12:20 and the duo just got off the bus and they were now walking back towards Jerry's home.
"It's been a pretty wild day, hasn't it?" Quast said while they were walking along the sidewalk "And it isn't over too, there is still much more to come, isn't there?"
"I have the feeling that there is a lot more to come, that we can indeed affect the world with this power, and yet it brings even more questions." Jerry kicked a little pebble and it bounced off the sidewalk onto the road.
"Yeah, I know." Quast said.
"Me too." Jerry looked forwards and they were almost in front of his home, after walking for a little bit more they were standing before the doorway, so Jerry unlocked it for the second time that day with his keys and they went in. The door once again closed, and locked behind them and they went up the stairs, after going up 3 sets of stairs they stood in front of the Dankworth's family door, Jerry selected the square headed key out of his key chain and unlocked the door.
"Home sweet home." said Jerry and hanged his jacket on the coat rack, Quast also hung his jacket not too long after, they took their shoes off and went into Jerry's room where their backpacks were.
"So we are back." said Quast surprised "It's been around 2 hours since we left, but it sure doesn't feel like it, so now we need to see how increasing your stats affects you, but where do we go to test them out?" asked Quast.
"Oh, this time I actually know a spot." Jerry said as he put on new clothes and threw the ones he wore while killing the slimes into the laundry basket. "Over there we can test how much a point in strength changes my actual strength."
"Oh, so are we going out again?" Quast sighed.
"Yeah we are, come on." Jerry said as he walked towards the coat rack, but then he decided that he didn't need his jacket since it was quite warm outside. "We don't need our jackets, and also that place is really close to here."
"Oh, I guess it is warm outside, well when we were in the forest it wasn't, so I guess we could leave our jackets here." agreed Quast.
They were outside and were walking down the road again, and they saw the playground once more, but this time Jerry stood still and turned around to Quast.
"Behind that playground is a little public fitness place, let's cross the road and go over there."
And so they crossed the road and went behind the playground to the fitness place, it had a lot of exercise equipment for being a public ground, many people who didn't really have the money to pay for a gym membership went there, so it had good reputation and no one tried to steal from it. Jerry was looking for the specific exercise appliance, there were normal gym appliances everywhere, the same that you could see in a normal fitness studio, but they were a lot more beat up, and they were free so no one was paid to repair them. Jerry stopped in front of the thing he was looking for, it had various weights attached to it, ranging from 5 kilograms to 105 kilograms, they went up by a factor of 10 and one could change them however they found fit, but the weights were hidden, so that they couldn't be stolen, the machine had a strong cable that was attached to a handle.
"Alright I'll try this without adding points to see what the maximum weight I can pull is." he said as he put the weights to 25 kilograms and pulled the handle, it was a little harder than he thought, he put it at 35 and it was hard for him, and 45 kilograms were his limit.
"Seems like 45 is the max I can do, I guess that's to be expected since I don't work out." Jerry said as he gently led the handle to it's original position. "So how many points should I add to strength now?" Jerry asked. "Like two or three?"
"Let's first try one point." Quast suggested.
"I guess you're right." Jerry said "I suppose I have to think about adding a point to strength." and so he did, he thought about adding one of the six attribute points to strength and it worked, his attribute points were now reduced to five and his strength went from 10 to 11.
"Ok, let's try it now." he said as he reached for the handle and pulled, surprisingly it was a little bit easier for him now. "Wow, it's easier, but it's still hard, I don't know what I expected." Jerry once again slowly led the handle back and looked at his hands. "Two more, I've decided I'm doing 3 points into strength and the rest into something else, maybe like 2 into dexterity and 1 into agility."
Jerry thought about adding another point into strength and it worked, the attribute points were now reduced to 4 and his strength stat went up to 12. He laid his hands on the handle, gripped then pulled, to his surprise it was significantly easier now, it wasn't a small difference, but also not that big of a one.
"Damn, I am getting stronger right now, aren't I? Something that should take someone a week or two, I'm doing in the span of minutes, alright, now for the last point into strength." he said as his attribute points went down to 3 and strength up to 13, meanwhile Quast just stood watching Jerry.
As Jerry put his hands on the handle he felt something, a weird feeling that he had never felt before, he realized the true power he and Quast held in the palms of their hands, the power to change reality. He gripped and pulled, him pulling those 45 kilograms felt like he was pulling the 35 kilogram one before he added the 3 points to strength, this time he didn't slowly lead the handle to it's place he let it go and the weights crashed together and made a loud noise.