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.

for them, the results were

of limit, the artifact was no longer capable of assessing my talent as it

the orb wasn't

-Clank!

a man wearing a black suit came in holding onto another similar-looking orb to the one that was

the old one with the new one, the man did not stay

was once again set up, Irene

place your

placed my

"Sure"

orb did

"What?"

directly moved towards the orb and placed her hand

time she wanted to test it

genuinely thought that the orb was broken, however,

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

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

being displayed on the orb, lifting her

"Are you human?"

her comment, my

"I think I am"

this not working, is your body allergic to the orb

"...how should I know?"

of logic was

Allergic to the orb?

going on

on her face, Irene turned around and moved towards a secluded area of the

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

another sigh escaped from my mouth as I stared at the orb

we

of what they were going to try, they were never going to be able to measure my limit. This was what the

could not say this out

her higher-ups and coming up with a conclusion, returning towards where I was standing, Irene calmly pointed towards the right

will leave that test

Good.

like they have given up

"Okay"

my head and turning my attention towards where Irene was pointing at, I soon spotted a large metallic capsule that stood upright.

machine, a bitter smile appeared

in real life, I instantly knew what that

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

me was a machine that

technicalities of the machine, I knew that it could measure someone's rank extremely accurately with an extremely small

how much someone tried to hide or suppress their rank, it would not go unnoticed

standing next to it, extending her hand, Irene

please enter the

"Understood"

I calmly walked towards the large capsule in the

talent assessment, I knew that I couldn't dodge

my E+ rank would

wouldn't be able to know what my talent was, they could more or less make a guess as a 16-year old

-Clank!

tingling sensation around my

was feeling was not annoying, it was

-Di! -Di!

after, the tingling sensation stopped and the capsule opened and steam rose

the capsule, as the steam dyed down, the first thing I

she was looking, a bitter

...yep.

was no going

a fairly high profiled one, the test results would soon become public for the whole world

knew that I could no longer operate as

along those lines, turning my attention back to Irene

free to

thoughts was my annoyed voice as she looked at me in shock.

have taken 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

did not listen to what she had

thinking of the

it was about

...

hall, tapping on the earpiece in her

the results came out, the student's rank has been

spoke, a deep voice filled with authority echoed

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