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

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

the orb wasn't reacting

-Clank!

central government was high. After Irene took the call, 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 nodded his

up, Irene once again took

your hand

I moved and placed

"Sure"

orb did not

"What?"

up again, Irene directly moved towards the orb and placed her hand

she wanted

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.

orb, it quickly turned yellow indicating to me

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

"Are you human?"

comment, my mouth

"I think I am"

is your body

"...how should I know?"

kind of logic

Allergic to the orb?

what was going on

turned around

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

escaped from my mouth as I

we were just

to try, they were never going to be able to measure

say this out

with a conclusion, returning towards where I

we will leave that test aside for now. For now, we will

Good.

given up on

"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

a bitter smile appeared on

seen it in real life, I instantly knew what that machine

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

was a machine that measured someone's

the technicalities of the machine, I knew that it could measure someone's rank extremely accurately with an extremely small margin

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

walking towards the capsule and standing next to it, extending her hand,

please enter the

"Understood"

sigh escaped from my mouth, I calmly

with my talent assessment, I knew

knew that my E+

there, although they wouldn't be able to know what my talent was, they could more or less make a guess as a

-Clank!

weird tingling sensation around my body as my mana instinctively channeled around my body, and

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

-Di! -Di!

the tingling sensation stopped and the capsule opened

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

and looking in the direction of where she was looking, a

...yep.

was no going

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

I could no longer operate as I

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

I free to

my annoyed voice as she looked at me in

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"

explanation, I nodded my head and quickly made my way towards

listen

currently racing as I started thinking of the

circumstances, I knew it was

...

hall, tapping on the earpiece in

came out, the student's rank has been determined

Irene spoke, a deep voice filled with

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