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

artifact was no longer capable

wasn't

-Clank!

not long after a man wearing a black suit came in holding onto another similar-looking orb to

did not stay for long as he

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

your

moved and placed

"Sure"

orb did not light

"What?"

Irene directly moved towards the orb and placed her hand on

she wanted to

done this because she genuinely thought that the orb was broken, however, seeing a similar reaction from the second orb, Irene knew that something was

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

quickly turned yellow indicating to me

on the orb, lifting her head and looking at me

"Are you human?"

comment, my

"I think I am"

this not working, is your body

"...how should I know?"

of

Allergic to the orb?

was going

look on her face, Irene turned around and moved towards a secluded

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

my mouth as I

this point, we were just

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

not say this out loud resulting

where I was standing, Irene

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

Good.

have given up on my

"Okay"

Irene was pointing at, I soon spotted a large metallic capsule that stood upright. Next to

bitter smile

never seen it in real life, I instantly knew what that

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

machine before me was a machine that

machine, I knew that it could measure

suppress their rank, it

next to it, extending

now please enter

"Understood"

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

assessment, I knew that I

E+

was, they could more or less

-Clank!

sensation around my body as my mana instinctively channeled around my body, and a white

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

-Di! -Di!

long after, the

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

direction of where she was looking, a bitter smile on

...yep.

no going

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

that I could no longer

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

free to

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

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

"Mhm"

nodded my head and quickly made

not listen to what she had

I started thinking of the future that lay

the circumstances, I knew it was about time that

...

the hall, tapping on the earpiece in her

out, the student's rank has been determined

a deep voice

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