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

of limit, the artifact was no longer

orb wasn't reacting

-Clank!

call, not long after a man wearing

new one, the man did not stay for long as he nodded his head in Irene's direction and

up, Irene once again took out

your hand

moved and placed my hand on

"Sure"

did not

"What?"

light up again, Irene directly moved towards the orb and placed

she wanted to

had not done this because she genuinely thought that the orb was broken, however, seeing a

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

she placed her hand on the orb, it quickly turned

displayed on the orb, lifting

"Are you human?"

her comment,

"I think I am"

why is this not working, is your

"...how should I know?"

of

Allergic to the orb?

what was going on through her

around

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

my mouth as I stared at

point, we were

they were never going to be able to measure my limit. This was what the seed of

I could not say this out

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

test aside for

Good.

seems like they have given up on my talent assessment for

"Okay"

stood upright. Next to the capsule

bitter smile appeared on

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

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

me was a machine that

that it could measure someone's rank extremely

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

and standing next to it, extending her hand, Irene

now please enter the

"Understood"

I calmly walked towards the large capsule in the distance and

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

knew that my E+ rank would soon

could more or less

-Clank!

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

it was still

-Di! -Di!

answered as not long after, the tingling sensation stopped and

dyed down, the first thing I saw was

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.

was no

and a fairly high profiled one, the test results would

that happened, I knew that I

those lines, turning my attention back to Irene

free to

at me in shock. Nodding her head, she stepped to the side and

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

"Mhm"

nodded my head and quickly made my way towards the exit of

not listen to what

started thinking of the future that lay

it was about time

...

hall, tapping on the earpiece in her

out, the student's rank has been determined to

after Irene spoke, a deep voice filled with authority echoed

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