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.

the results were going

the artifact was no longer capable of assessing

wasn't reacting to

-Clank!

long after a man wearing a black suit came in holding onto another similar-looking

the new one, the man did not stay for long

once again set up, Irene once again took out her tablet

your hand

I moved and placed my hand

"Sure"

orb did not light

"What?"

directly moved towards the orb and placed

time she wanted to test

orb was broken, however, seeing a similar reaction from the second orb,

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

the orb, it quickly turned yellow indicating to me that her talent limit was

yellow color being displayed on the orb,

"Are you human?"

her comment,

"I think I am"

your body allergic to the

"...how should I know?"

of

Allergic to the orb?

going on

look on her face, Irene turned around and moved towards a secluded area of the room as she

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

sigh escaped from my mouth as I stared

we were just

to be able to measure my limit. This was what

could not say this out loud resulting in this

returning towards where I was standing, Irene calmly pointed towards the right

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

Good.

up

"Okay"

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

in real life, I instantly knew

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

a machine that

it could

how much someone tried to hide or suppress their rank, it would not

standing next to it, extending her hand,

please enter the

"Understood"

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

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

that my E+ rank would soon

know what my talent was, they could more or less make a

-Clank!

felt a weird tingling sensation around my body as

sensation 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 the capsule opened and steam

down, the first thing I saw

face, turning around and looking in the direction of where she was looking, a bitter smile on my face as I saw the large E+ displayed

...yep.

no

fairly high profiled one, the test

I knew that I could no

back to Irene who was looking through her tablet, I

free

she looked at me in shock. Nodding her head, she stepped

leave. We have taken all of your answers and have also finished with the testing, you are free to go. We will soon

"Mhm"

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

did not listen to what

thinking of the future that

I knew it was about time that I

...

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

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

a deep voice

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