Chapter 17
Fortunately, he had leveled up on a day off. One whole day after his stat allocation, his entire body felt uncomfortable.
It was neither painful nor itchy; it was more like his entire body felt sore, as if all his muscle groups were working out nonstop.
Luke also learned that allocating stat points wasn’t exactly fun in real life.
But for the sake of increasing his strength, that small amount of suffering was worth it.
For an ordinary person, they had to work out for a long time at the gym and also persevere with their diet before they could build a clearly chiseled body. Comparatively, this tiny discomfort was truly nothing.
Before allocating the stat points, Luke’s body had still been rather ordinary, with a body fat percentage of about 18 percent.
But after the stat allocation, there was already a faint trace of muscles on his abdomen, signifying that his body fat percentage had dropped.
Apart from that, not long after completing his stat allocation, he was assailed by intense hunger. He only felt better after rushing to the kitchen and wolfing down a whole lot of milk and bread.
And less than three hours later, he was hungry again and was forced to hunt for food once more.
Only when the discomfort from his body transformation vanished did he stop feeling hungry. In the span of one day, Luke had eaten nearly 40lbs of food.
Even with the amount of food he ate, his body fat percentage didn’t increase. Instead, it dropped further as his chest and leg muscles became even more distinct.
Luke took this lesson straight to heart. The strength obtained from the system didn’t come from nothing; this transformation was followed by a huge consumption of energy. If he didn’t supply himself with enough food, it was the fat stored in his body that would be consumed instead.
Moreover, strength as a stat was one that enhanced both his body and health. Luke even found that the freckles on his face had reduced.
Thus, strength as a stat still had an obvious result despite the small number of points allocated.
Next, he got back to work.
The police work in a small town like this wasn’t too busy, but it wasn’t as if they had nothing to do at all either.
If one truly wanted to work, one would be able to find something to do at any time.
For example, issues such as quarrels between married couples, or quarrels between neighbors, accidents, drunk people creating trouble, and so on. With everything added together, there were still around 30 to 50 tasks for the entire police force to handle on a daily basis.
The patrol units, comprised of two officers per unit, were generally able to deal with five to ten such cases.
Luke rode along in Selina’s car every day, and occasionally, Selina would steal some of his cases, causing him to lose some experience and credit points. Most of the time, however, he would take the initiative to work and solve the cases.
Luke’s explanation for his actions was that he wanted to quickly familiarize himself with police work. Thus, Selina took on the role of a good guide and instructor.
Selina was personally very satisfied with this arrangement.
For her, these minor cases were boring, and some couples could even quarrel five days a week. It was almost as if quarreling was their day job.
As for other cases such as water leaks, gas leaks, wild animals, and so on, those were similarly dull cases.
Since Luke wanted to do more work, Selina would never refuse.
Luke welcomed all the work too.
Although dealing with all that was boring, he only took about 10 to 20 minutes to deal with each of them, and he was able to earn between 2 to 5 points after that.
With that, he was able to accumulate between 10 to 20 points per day, and after four weeks on the job, he leveled up again.
System notification: Experience points have reached 300. The host is now level 2.
Extra stat points: 3
This time, Luke didn’t allocate the points right away. Rather, he waited until the weekend, and bought a bunch of high calorie, high protein, and high fat foods with his pay before allocating his points.
Again, he increased his strength. Nothing was better than a stronger body.
Furthermore, he reaped both external and internal benefits by increasing the strength stat.
After adding 3 points to strength, he now had 18 points of strength, which was nearly twice that of an ordinary person.
At the next level up, he could add 3 more points to strength to reach 21, which would officially be more than twice an ordinary person’s strength.
How powerful would he be at that time? Luke daydreamed as he stuffed himself with food inside his room.
After that, he used Robert’s workout equipment to do a short test again.
This time, he was able to bench about 330lbs. He couldn’t test how much he could lift and squat as there were no additional weights, but since he worked out daily, he could sense that a weight of 440lbs was starting to feel trivial to him.
Clearly, his strength had increased greatly.
As usual, Luke maintained a low profile. He planned to keep at it for at least half a year. Then, he could start claiming that he had been working out hard to become stronger physically. That would be more believable.
After all, it had only been a month since he started. If he suddenly became strong, it would be a tad too suspicious.
Of course, that didn’t matter too much. However, Luke didn’t enjoy revealing his trump card for everyone to see.
The stat allocation this time had an even more obvious result.
If it wasn’t for Luke’s dislike for showing off, he would only need to raise his shirt to flaunt his six-pack, like those bodybuilders, and maybe attract some muscle-loving girls.
Even with him keeping a low profile, Selina had still asked him if he had been working out since his arm muscles were looking very nice nowadays.
The only thing Luke could do was change the topic. After all, the uniform he wore was a short-sleeved light brown uniform. In a hot place like Texas, only an idiot would wear a long-sleeved uniform. Thus, it was natural that he couldn’t hide his arm muscles.
Fortunately, arm muscles weren’t as conspicuous as chest muscles. Selina dropped the subject soon enough.
After the second level up, Luke became even more diligent.
Others worked for their pay; even if they slacked off a little, their salary would still remain the same. On the other hand, Luke could see the accumulation of experience and credit from work with his own eyes.
Looking at his past two level ups, the current level up requirement wasn’t too high yet. He would probably level up again in a month.
What would his body look like after he added 3 more points to his strength? Would he look like one of those super bodybuilders?
Luke estimated that his body fat percentage had dropped to about 15 percent. Otherwise, his six-pack wouldn’t be so visible.
At the same time, his skin had also become much healthier, and his body hair was falling off as well. It was as if his skin was changing back to the skin of his previous self.
Yes, in his previous life, for some reason, he had better skin than even many females, and he didn’t have a lot of body hair either.
In this life, he was Caucasian. What he disliked about his present body was the body hair. Now, with the change in his constitution after the stat allocation, he felt incredibly joyful.
His hard work brought him another benefit. The veteran officers at the department were all friendlier toward him nowadays.
Nobody would hate a hardworking colleague, especially when this was a colleague who wouldn’t cause one to lose their job.
Thus, the more hardworking Luke was, the easier life became for the others.
Luke treated his job like a video game, and his tasks like he was farming game monsters. Because of that, his other colleagues’ workloads had lightened considerably.