12 School 3 (2/2)
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.”