The Author's POV

Chapter 192

-Di! -Di!

"Alright, you can remove your hand"

Indifferently staring at a blue orb before me, I removed my hand from it as Irene looked at the tablet in her hand with a small frown on her face.

With each passing second, the frown on her face deepened as an odd and confused look appeared on her delicate face.

Lifting her glasses up with her finger, she softly muttered.

"Odd..."

After a couple of seconds, alternating her eyes between the orb and me, she once again asked me to place my hand on the orb.

"Please put your hand on the orb again"

"Okay"

Heeding her command, once again placing my hand on the orb I inwardly clicked my tongue as thought to myself

'tsk, how useless'

The orb before me was called the 'Talent assessment orb'

A dwarven artifact that measured the talent of an individual. Although the relationship between the humans and the three races wasn't the most ideal, trades between them still happened, as dwarves required a lot of resources to develop their artifacts.

The talent assessment orb was an orb that the dwarves had created and developed with the goal of assessing an individual's talent.

By measuring the general structure of the body from the veins to muscle fibers as well as mana proficiency and mana affinity, the orb was able to determine the talent limit of a person.

In general, the test was fairly accurate with more than 99.98% of cases reaching their dictated talent limit. For the 0.02% of cases where the artifact was inaccurate, generally, it was only by a margin of error of one rank. Meaning that if the orb dictated that someone's talent was D rank, there was a 0.02% chance that their talent could be C.

However such occurrences were rare. Furthermore, aside from that, there really haven't been any cases where the artifact was wrong by a large margin.

...at least as of yet.

Once again staring at her tablet and then proceeding to look at the orb that was beneath the palm of my hand, Irene muttered.

"Is the device perhaps malfunctioning?"

Typically once someone placed their hand on the talent assessment orb, the orb would immediately change color depicting their talent limit.

Yellow - G

Green - F

Orange - E

Red - D

Blue - C

Purple - B

Grey - A

White - S

Pink - SS

Black - SSS

...those were the different colors that the orb would display upon someone touching it. However, as she looked at the orb that I was currently touching, she couldn't see any changes in color as the orb did not light up.

Was the artifact perhaps malfunctioning?

Though extremely rare, such cases were not unheard of.

Placing her finger on her ear where her earpiece was, Irene softly muttered.

"Sir, we've got a situation. It seems like the talent assessment orb is malfunctioning"

"Yes, it seems to be that way"

"I haven't tested it myself but the looks of things it really seems to be broken since everything else is working fine"

"Understood, yes"

Staring at Irene who was obviously speaking to a higher-up, I tried to eavesdrop on their conversation.

Since the conversation was related to me, it was only natural that I was curious.

Unfortunately, as the earpiece was stuck in her ear, I couldn't hear what she was talking about and thus could only give up.

Either way, although I wasn't able to properly listen to their conversation, from what I've gathered it seems as though they wanted to replace the talent assessment orb.

Realizing this I shook my head.

results were

consumed the seed of limit, the artifact was no

why the orb wasn't reacting

-Clank!

man wearing a black suit came in holding onto another similar-looking orb

the new one, the man did not stay

orb was once again set up, Irene once

place your

I moved and placed my hand

"Sure"

orb did

"What?"

moved towards the orb and placed

she wanted to

she had not done this because she genuinely thought that the orb was broken, however, seeing a similar reaction from the second

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

the orb, it quickly turned yellow indicating to me that her talent limit

color being displayed on the orb, lifting her head and looking at me she

"Are you human?"

comment, my

"I think I am"

not working, is your body allergic

"...how should I know?"

kind of

Allergic to the orb?

going on through

Irene turned around and moved towards a secluded area of the room as she

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

another sigh escaped from my mouth as I stared at the

point, we

to try, they were never going to be able to measure

this

with a conclusion, returning towards where I was standing, Irene calmly pointed towards the right

seems like we will leave that test aside for now. For now, we will now

Good.

like they have given up on my

"Okay"

large metallic capsule that stood upright. Next to

machine, a bitter smile

had never seen it in real life, I instantly

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

was a machine

it could measure someone's rank extremely accurately

or suppress

and standing next to it,

please enter the

"Understood"

an extended sigh escaped from my mouth, I calmly walked towards the large capsule in the distance

before with my talent assessment, I knew that I couldn't dodge this

knew that my E+ rank would

to know what my talent was, they could more or less make a guess as a 16-year old E + rank was almost unheard

-Clank!

of seconds after the doors of the capsule closed, I suddenly felt a weird tingling sensation around my body as my mana

not annoying, it was still uncomfortable therefore

-Di! -Di!

my prayers were quickly answered as not long after, the tingling sensation stopped and the capsule opened and steam

dyed down, the first thing I

was looking, a bitter smile on my face as I saw the large

...yep.

was no

public case and a fairly high profiled one, the test

knew that I could no longer operate as I

turning my attention back to Irene who was looking through her tablet,

I free to

looked at me in shock. Nodding her head, she stepped to the side

all of your answers and have also finished with the testing, you are free to go.

"Mhm"

I nodded my head and quickly made my way towards the exit of the

not listen to what she had

mind was currently racing as I started thinking of the future

knew it was about time that

...

on the earpiece

out, the student's rank has been determined

after Irene spoke, a deep voice filled with authority echoed in

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