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 going

limit, the artifact was no longer capable

wasn't reacting

-Clank!

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

that the orb was once again set up, Irene once again took out her tablet

your hand

I moved and placed my hand on

"Sure"

did not light

"What?"

not light up again, Irene directly moved towards the orb and placed her hand

she wanted to test

not done this because she genuinely thought that the orb was broken, however, seeing a

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

hand on the orb, it quickly turned yellow indicating to

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

"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?

was going on through

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

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

escaped from my mouth as I stared at the

this point, we were just wasting

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

not say this out

a conclusion, returning towards where I was

that test aside for now. For now, we will now measure your

Good.

seems like they have given up on my talent assessment for

"Okay"

towards where Irene was pointing at, I soon spotted a large metallic capsule that stood upright. Next to the capsule was a black monitor that was facing away from the

machine, a bitter smile appeared on

it in real

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

machine before me was a machine that measured

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

or suppress their rank, it would

next

now please enter the

"Understood"

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

I knew that I couldn't dodge this

my E+ rank would soon

they could more or less

-Clank!

a weird tingling sensation around my body as my mana instinctively channeled around

I was feeling was not annoying, it was still uncomfortable therefore I wished for it to end

-Di! -Di!

not long after, the tingling sensation stopped and

capsule, as the steam dyed down, the

face, turning around and looking in the direction of where she was looking, a bitter smile on my face as I saw the large E+

...yep.

was no going

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

that happened, I knew that I could no longer operate

back to Irene

I free to

she looked at me in shock. Nodding her

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

"Mhm"

and quickly made my way towards the

not listen to what she

as I started thinking of the future that lay ahead

knew it was about time that I

...

tapping on

came out, the student's rank has been determined to

spoke, a deep voice

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