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 to be

the seed of limit, the artifact was no longer capable of assessing my talent as it was beyond its

why the orb wasn't reacting to my

-Clank!

of the 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 the one

one with the new one, the man did not stay for long

that the orb was once again set up, Irene once

place your hand

placed my hand on the

"Sure"

orb did not

"What?"

light up again, Irene directly moved towards the orb and

time she wanted to test

broken, however, seeing a similar reaction from the

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

it quickly turned yellow indicating to

yellow color being displayed on the orb, lifting her

"Are you human?"

her comment, my mouth

"I think I am"

your body

"...how should I know?"

kind of logic

Allergic to the orb?

was going on through her

look on her face, Irene turned around and moved towards a

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

mouth as I stared at the orb before

this point, we were just

be able to measure my limit. This was what

say this out

where I was standing, Irene calmly

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

Good.

seems like they have given up on my talent assessment

"Okay"

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

a bitter smile appeared

had never seen it in real life,

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

was a machine that

that it could measure someone's rank extremely accurately with an extremely

to hide or suppress their rank,

walking towards the capsule and standing next to

now please enter the

"Understood"

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

talent assessment, I knew that I couldn't

my E+

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

-Clank!

doors of the capsule closed, I suddenly felt a weird tingling sensation around my body as my mana instinctively channeled around my body, and a white hue exuded

sensation I was feeling was not annoying, it was still

-Di! -Di!

were quickly answered as not long after, the tingling sensation stopped and

the steam dyed down, the first thing I saw was

and looking in the direction of where she was looking,

...yep.

was no

a fairly high profiled one, the test results would

happened, I knew that I could no longer operate as I did

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

free to

Irene out of her thoughts was my annoyed voice as she looked at me in shock. Nodding her head, she stepped to

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.

"Mhm"

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

not listen to

currently racing as I started thinking of

knew it was about

...

figure leaving the hall, tapping on the earpiece

the student's rank has been determined to be

a deep voice filled with

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