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 going to be the

seed of limit, the artifact was no longer capable of

wasn't reacting to

-Clank!

was high. After Irene took the call, not long after a man wearing a black suit came in holding onto

the man did not stay for long as he

set up, Irene once again took out

your hand

I moved and placed

"Sure"

the orb did not light

"What?"

directly moved towards the

wanted to test

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.

it quickly turned yellow indicating to me

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

"Are you human?"

her comment, my

"I think I am"

your body allergic to

"...how should I know?"

kind of

Allergic to the orb?

going on through her

turned around and moved towards a

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

mouth as I stared at the orb before

point, we

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

say this out

coming up with a conclusion, returning towards where I was standing, Irene calmly

leave that test aside for now. For now,

Good.

have given up on my talent

"Okay"

my head and turning my attention 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 capsule with different numbers

the machine, a bitter smile

never seen it in real life,

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

before me was a

it could measure someone's rank extremely

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

the capsule and standing next to it, extending her hand, Irene

now please enter

"Understood"

sigh escaped from my mouth, I calmly walked

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

my E+ rank would

could more or less

-Clank!

around my body as my mana instinctively channeled around my body,

I was feeling was not annoying, it was still uncomfortable therefore I wished

-Di! -Di!

answered as not long after, the tingling sensation stopped and

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

on Irene's face, turning around and looking in the direction of where she was looking, a bitter smile on my face as I saw the

...yep.

no going

fairly high profiled one, the test results would

that I could no longer operate

to Irene who was looking through her tablet, I

I free to

voice as she looked at me in shock. Nodding her head, she

you may leave. We have taken 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 investigation. Thank you for

"Mhm"

her explanation, I nodded my head and quickly made

honestly, did not listen

as I started thinking of the future

the circumstances, I knew it was about

...

on the

rank

deep voice filled

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