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

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

why the orb wasn't reacting

-Clank!

government was high. After Irene took the call, not long after a man

the man did not stay for long as he nodded his head

once again set up, Irene once again took

your hand

I moved and placed my hand on

"Sure"

the orb did not light

"What?"

light up again, Irene directly moved towards the orb and

time she wanted

thought that the orb was broken, however, seeing

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

orb, it quickly turned

displayed on the orb, lifting

"Are you human?"

comment,

"I think I am"

is your body allergic

"...how should I know?"

kind of

Allergic to the orb?

what was going on through

her face, Irene turned around and

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

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

point, we were just

going to be able

I could not say this out loud resulting in

talking to her higher-ups and coming up with a conclusion, returning towards where

leave that test aside for now. For now,

Good.

up on my talent assessment for

"Okay"

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 and data

the machine, a bitter smile appeared on

I had never seen it in real life, I instantly

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

a

knew that it could measure someone's rank

much someone tried to hide or suppress their rank,

capsule and standing next

now please

"Understood"

I calmly walked

assessment, I knew

E+ rank would soon be

more or less make a guess as a 16-year

-Clank!

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

was not annoying, it was still

-Di! -Di!

were quickly answered as not long after, the tingling sensation stopped and the capsule

as the steam dyed down, the first thing I saw was Irene's

in the direction of where she was looking, a bitter smile on my face as I saw the

...yep.

was no

public case and a fairly high profiled one, the test

I could no longer operate as I

to Irene who was looking through her tablet, I

free

she looked at me in

the testing, you are free to go. We will soon send

"Mhm"

her explanation, I nodded my head and quickly made my

did not listen to what she

racing as I started thinking of the future that

it was about time that I stopped

...

Ren's figure leaving the hall, tapping on the earpiece in

out, the student's rank has been determined to be E+

deep voice filled with

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