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.

were going to

artifact was no longer capable of assessing my talent as it was beyond

orb wasn't reacting to

-Clank!

call, not long after a man wearing a black

did not stay for long as he nodded his head in Irene's

up,

your hand

placed my hand on

"Sure"

the orb did not light

"What?"

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

time she wanted to

the orb was broken, however, seeing a

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

on the orb, it quickly turned

orb, lifting her head and looking at me she

"Are you human?"

her comment, my mouth

"I think I am"

this not working, is your body allergic to the

"...how should I know?"

of logic was

Allergic to the orb?

what was going on

her face, Irene turned around and moved towards a secluded area of the

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

escaped from my mouth as I stared

we were

they were never going to be able

this

conclusion, returning towards where I was

that test aside for now. For

Good.

like they have given up on my talent

"Okay"

soon spotted a large metallic capsule that stood upright. Next to the capsule was a black monitor that

bitter smile appeared

had never seen it in real life,

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

was a machine that

the machine, I knew that it could measure

someone tried to hide or suppress their

standing next to it, extending

please enter the

"Understood"

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

before with my talent assessment, I knew that I couldn't

my E+ rank

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

-Clank!

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

it was still uncomfortable

-Di! -Di!

long after, the tingling

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

looking in the direction of where she was looking,

...yep.

was no going

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

happened, I knew that I

along those lines, turning my attention back to Irene

free to

Irene out of her thoughts was my annoyed voice as she looked at me in

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

"Mhm"

head and quickly

not listen to what

I started thinking of the future

knew it was about time that I

...

leaving the hall, tapping on the earpiece in

out, the student's rank has been determined to

deep voice filled with authority

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