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

me having consumed the seed of limit, the artifact was no

orb wasn't reacting to

-Clank!

Irene took the call, not long after a man wearing a black suit came in holding onto another

one with the new one, the man did not stay for long as he nodded his head in

orb was once again set up, Irene once

place your

I moved and placed my hand

"Sure"

orb did not

"What?"

not light up again, Irene directly moved towards the orb

time she wanted

orb was broken, however, seeing a similar

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

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

displayed on the orb, lifting her head and looking

"Are you human?"

comment,

"I think I am"

working, is your body allergic

"...how should I know?"

of logic was

Allergic to the orb?

was going

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

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

my head, another sigh escaped from my mouth as I stared

point, we were just

to be able to measure my limit. This was what the seed

could not say this out

coming up with a conclusion, returning towards where I was standing, Irene calmly pointed towards the

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

Good.

seems like they have given up on my talent assessment

"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

bitter smile appeared on my

never seen it in real life, I instantly knew

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

before me was a

the technicalities of the machine, I knew that it could measure someone's rank extremely

to hide or suppress their

standing next to

please enter the

"Understood"

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

assessment, I knew that

my E+ rank would

they could more or less make a guess as a 16-year old E + rank was almost

-Clank!

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

was still uncomfortable therefore

-Di! -Di!

the tingling sensation stopped and the

down, the first thing I saw

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

...yep.

was no

fairly high profiled one, the test results would soon become public for the whole world

I knew that I could no

to Irene

free

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

We have taken all 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

"Mhm"

and quickly made

not listen to what she had

mind was currently racing as I started thinking of the future that lay ahead of

I knew it was about time that I

...

on

results came out, the student's rank

spoke, a deep voice

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