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 going to

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

why the orb wasn't reacting

-Clank!

the central government was high. After Irene took the call, not long after a man wearing a black suit

with the new one, the man did not stay for long as he nodded his head in Irene's direction and

once again set up, Irene once again took

place your hand

moved and placed

"Sure"

the orb did

"What?"

light up again, Irene directly moved towards the orb and placed her hand

wanted to

the orb was broken, however, seeing a similar reaction from the second orb, Irene knew

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

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

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

"Are you human?"

her comment, my

"I think I am"

not working, is your

"...how should I know?"

of logic

Allergic to the orb?

what was going on

with a complicated look on her face, Irene turned around and moved towards a secluded area of the room as she

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

from my mouth as I stared at

we were just wasting

of what they were going to try, they were never going to be able

say this out loud resulting

conclusion, returning towards where I was standing, Irene

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

Good.

up on my

"Okay"

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

a bitter smile

it in real life,

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

machine before me was a

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

hide or suppress their

capsule and standing next to it, extending her

now please enter the

"Understood"

as an extended sigh escaped from my mouth, I

I knew that I couldn't dodge this

E+ rank would soon be

know what my talent was, they could more or less make a

-Clank!

the capsule closed, I suddenly felt a weird tingling sensation around my body as my mana instinctively channeled around my body, and a white hue

was still uncomfortable therefore

-Di! -Di!

the tingling sensation stopped and the capsule

down, the first thing

she was looking, a bitter smile on

...yep.

was no

case and a fairly high profiled one, the test results would soon become public for

that happened, I knew that I

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

I free to

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

with the testing, you are free to go. We will soon send you an email detailing

"Mhm"

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

listen to what she had

started thinking of

knew it was about time that

...

hall, tapping on the earpiece in her ear, Irene

student's rank has been determined to be

a deep voice filled with authority echoed in her

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