While at home, Jerry decided to add 6 Attribute Points into Intelligence, and 5 into Dexterity, making his Intelligence reach 29 along with 23 in Dexterity.
Quast found himself at school the next morning, the day before was now just a blur. There weren't that many more students today, but school was going to begin anyways.
Many people in the school were asking each other if they had an ability, Albert was one of them, he was asking some people he knew, and then came the turn of Quast and Jerry.
"So guys, I forgot to ask you yesterday, but do you have abilities?" Albert walked up to them and asked curiously.
"Oh yeah, I sure do." Jerry said, Quast just turned around and looked at him a little surprised.
"What, really?" Albert kind of shouted, thankfully there weren't any people near them to hear this. "What is it?"
"You guess." Jerry smiled, not wanting to continue the conversation anymore.
"No clue." Albert genuinely thought of some abilities that he had seen online, but didn't want to assume anything.
"Haha, I got you didn't I?" Jerry laughed a fake laugh. "I don't have an ability yet!" he lied through his teeth, but made it sound believable, because he didn't want Albert to go and run his mouth off to someone, since Jerry didn't want any trouble for now.
"Damn.." Albert looked devoid from any of the joy he had, and turned towards Quast. "What about you, do you have an ability?"
"Oh, how I wish I did.. how I wish I did." Quast responded a little bit sadly, since he didn't consider his system as an ability.
"..Well, good luck with getting your abilities, guys." Albert went away somewhere and some minutes later the class found itself in the classroom.
However, today wasn't all talking, because the teacher handed out a piece of paper to everyone. It was a questionnaire, asking if the students were feeling a change within themselves, and if they had developed a power.
On the top of it in big bold letters, so that everyone could make it out, it read "PLEASE ANSWER TRUTHFULLY", Jerry grinned when he read that.
"Alright.. so, please do as it says on top of the papers, and answer truthfully." Mary Johnston sat on the teacher's desk just looking out of the window while the students were doing the questionnaire.
"But I don't wanna answer truthfully." Jerry thought. The piece of paper infront of him, being illuminated both from the sunlight outside, and from the lights inside that were turned on, just wasting electricity. "Well, I've been left with no choice.. I guess truth prevails in the end." he decided to actually answer that he had an ability, but with a twist.
There was a description on the piece of paper, that kind of explained what the thing was that was changing the Earth '"Mana", named so, because of the fictional energy that goes by the same name, is an energy that changes humans and other less intelligent life forms, such as some animals, plants, and some insects that have been currently recorded. Even though the World Health Organisation (WHO) has also poured a lot of resources into studying this strange anomaly, nobody knows where it came from or how it originated.'
Reading that the World Health Organisation was involved, made Quast, and Jerry truly realise on what type of scale they've changed the world.
The questionnaire wasn't that prying about if the students had gotten an ability, it was just some questions about what feelings the students felt, and if they indeed had an ability, they were given a choice to get a contract to work for the government to figure out what this thing called Mana truly was, or they could just decline, of course Jerry declined, since he didn't want to work for the government yet, and Quast answered that he had no ability.
"What did you answer when it asked you what ability you had?" Quast asked.
"After some careful thought, I answered that my ability was strengthened sight, since I didn't want to reveal that I had fire magic."
"Understandable." Bordington didn't have anything else to say.
Both of them weren't doing anything, and were just sitting on their desks.
"Man, I wonder when the new education system will come." Jerry wondered.
"I dunno, do you think it will be after we've graduated?" Quast pondered, with his head on his desk.
"Hope not, I wanna get a feeling of an ability school where all the students have powers, but of course there would be that one kid that doesn't have a power, kinda like you, and he's the protagonist, that gets bullied or something." Jerry took a small pause "He has really strong friends though, and they live happily ever after, but one day he gets angered so much by a bully that he just decides to reveal his super-op power that he's been hiding since the beginning."
"Damn, why does that sound like an actual story?" "Also even without an ability I'm not that weak, I've got this thing called an 'Impossible quest'." Quast said.
"Oh yeah, I remember back at my home when we first found out about the system, when you explained most of the important things about it, you said that there were different difficulties of quests and 'Impossible' was one of them." Dankworth remembered. "What does it do, is it not for the users?"
"No.. it's something that I would eventually have to use someday, I just know it, the power of it is a little bit unfathomable." Quast thought deeply about it.
"This actually aligns pretty well with my thought up story, in the fact that you have an overpowered power." Jerry said and just doodled on the one notebook that he had brought with him.
"Wow, you're actually fueling my protagonist syndrome." Quast said.
"It had to be done someday." Jerry was playing along with the joke.
Whatever humour they still had left in them was interrupted almost instantly by the bell, and the teacher entered the classroom soon after.
The 10a didn't really do anything in the second lesson, and once it was over, Quast and Jerry went home.
Back at home, Quast just didn't feel like doing anything, so as he would normally do, he scrolled through his recommended section to find anything to watch, alas he was picky and didn't want to start watching a video that was too long, so he just didn't do anything but look at the thumbnails and titles of the videos until he found something titled 'News: Guy finds a mana plant with fruits in his backyard, WHO shells out even more money for research, and more."
It was just a 7 minute news video, and the most interesting thing that Quast got out of it was the guy who found mana fruits in his backyard, and so he wondered if their forest spot was also already affected by mana.