Son of Chaos 12 School 3

"I'm not really sure why that is, but i heard that permanent pills have to change a indicator forever, while temporary change it only for some time and healing pills are just supposed to increase the regeneration rate by a lot, so the effect seems instantaneous, but isn't in reality."

At this point Serge opened his mouth to confirm what Greg said. "According to one of the books I have read, which is about pill refinement, this is really the case, but there is more to it. There aren't really crafted permanent pills, since they only have a long duration. For example there are pills which are called permanent, which give a small stat increase, but they only work until a person dies.

It doesn't really make much difference, but strictly speaking a permanent pill would still be in effect even after a person dies, so these pills effect has an end and as such aren't really permanent."

"So there aren't any real permanent pills?"

"There are, just not any that are crafted. But some bosses may drop them and I heard that they are sold for horrendous prices since if you are rich you can get a temple to resurrect you and as such these people need real permanent pills."

"You can be resurrected?"

"Yeah, but since it is a privilege of the temples I don't know much about it."

"That's great. But I guess that even if it was there is no way, we could pay for it."

"Well as far as I know during the training sessions organized by the school there is a safety policy with a temple close by so the students will be resurrected, but they will have a dept which is quite sizable."

"Still its good to know that there is such a form of safety."

"I recon they had to do it or they couldn't organize these sessions."

"Sarge, how come you know so much about it?", Ivan asked curiously. It was quite surprising for him to hear Sarge talking so much, but it seemed that he liked spreading his knowledge.

"My parents operate a book store so whenever I had nothing to do I would go there and read. After a while I naturally came to collect this knowledge."

"Then do you know anything about hard reset?"

"You mean that hat happened to you? Sorry, although I have seen it being mentioned before I don't really know anything about it."

At this moment an old voice cut in, "It happens if you go against the System or if you get caught up in a cleanup."

The three of them turn around to check who had cut into their conversation. It was an old woman who had long white hair which was in sharp contrast to her dark blue robe, which completely covered her straight figure. To be honest if not for the hair and the wrinkles in her face one would have guessed her to be at most 30 years old.

"Sorry, boys. I just happen to hear your question and since you seem to be affected I thought it wold be helpful to tell you a bit about it."

"So you know about hard reset?", Serge asked eager. It seemed like only knowledge could get him to talk, independent of whether he was the one spreading it or gaining it.

"Yes, it's not really a secret but only the truly powerful would ever get in contact with it. As I said, you either have to go against the System, which requires power far above most or you will have to get caught up in a cleanup."

"I thought no one could go against the System."

"That's usually the case for people of our realm, but if powers from other realms come into play it may change."

"Other realms?"

"I won't tell you much about it, since your levels are way to low. Just knowing that there are other realms and really powerful people can travel from one realm to another is enough.

And when that happens it may influence our realm. It may only be an object being left behind or it might be more direct influence, anyways all of that is perceived as outside influence by the System and it will try to get rid of that but since it comes from another realm it can't directly be influenced so the System will generate quests for people powerful enough to get rid of the problem.

But sometimes the object may be useful for the person send, so there is the possibility of a trial to integrate it into the system. Some weird powerful items have there origin in this trial.

Each trial is a risk, since some of the objects can to lead great damage, so there is a price for starting such a trial and that is a hard reset. It basically means that the person starting the trial will die if he fails, but since they are really powerful their souls are to strong to be easily eradicated so the system will just remove all memories, leaving only some knowledge intact, as well as stats, skills, titles and anything else that makes up the strength of such a person."

"So that means that Ivan was powerful before."

"Yes, but it won't matter anymore, since he has to start anew and often power just comes from luck so he most likely won't be able to reach the same level again."

"Oh, then what about the other reason for a hard reset."

"The System might be quite powerful, but it to runs experiments and sometimes they run awry so it then has to clean up after that. If you happen to be in an area where something like this happens, then your data gets corrupted and you too will be hard rest."

"Wow, that sounds really unfair."

"That's just how it is. If you run into an experiment by another humanoid you won't even have the chance to start anew, so it isn't that bad."

Chapter end