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.

them, the results were

having consumed the seed of limit, the artifact was no longer capable of assessing my talent as it was beyond its

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 came in holding onto another similar-looking orb to the one

new one, the man did not stay for long as

orb was once again set up, Irene

place your hand

placed

"Sure"

the orb did not

"What?"

the orb not light up again, Irene directly moved towards the

time she wanted to

thought that the orb was broken, however,

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

her hand on the orb, it quickly turned

the orb, lifting

"Are you human?"

comment, my

"I think I am"

not working, is your body allergic to

"...how should I know?"

of

Allergic to the orb?

what was going on

her face, Irene turned around and moved

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

another sigh escaped from my mouth as I stared at the

we

try, they were never going to be able to measure my limit. This

this out loud resulting in this

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

test aside for now. For

Good.

have given up on my talent

"Okay"

that stood upright.

bitter smile appeared on my

seen it in real life, I instantly knew

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

me was a machine

the technicalities of the machine, I knew that it could measure someone's

tried to hide or suppress their

walking towards the capsule and standing next to

please

"Understood"

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

my talent assessment, I knew that I couldn't dodge

knew that my E+ rank

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

-Clank!

closed, I suddenly felt a weird tingling sensation around my body as my mana

sensation I was feeling was not annoying, it was still uncomfortable

-Di! -Di!

were quickly answered as not long after, the tingling

steam dyed down, the first thing

the shock displayed on Irene's face, turning around and looking in the direction of where she was looking, a

...yep.

no

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

I could no

my attention back to Irene who was looking through her

I free to

Irene out of her thoughts was my annoyed voice as she looked at me in shock. Nodding her head, she

all of your answers and have also finished with the testing, you are free to go. We will soon send you an email detailing the follow-up of our

"Mhm"

explanation, I nodded my head and quickly

honestly, did not listen to what she had

currently racing as I started thinking of the future

the circumstances, I knew it was about time that I stopped

...

leaving the hall, tapping on

student's rank

after Irene spoke, a deep voice filled

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