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

the seed of limit, the artifact was no longer

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 the

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

orb was once again set up, Irene once again took out her

your

placed my hand

"Sure"

orb did

"What?"

moved towards the orb and placed her hand on

wanted

was broken, however, seeing a similar reaction from the second orb, Irene knew that something

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

placed her hand on the orb, it quickly turned yellow indicating to me that her talent

on the orb, lifting her head and

"Are you human?"

comment,

"I think I am"

is this not working, is your body allergic to the orb or

"...how should I know?"

of

Allergic to the orb?

was going on through

around and moved towards a secluded

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

mouth as I stared at the

point, we were just

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

I could not say this out loud

higher-ups and coming up with a conclusion, returning towards where I was standing, Irene

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

Good.

given up on my

"Okay"

where Irene was pointing at, I soon spotted a large metallic capsule that stood upright. Next to

a bitter smile appeared

real life, I

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

a machine that measured

the machine, I knew that it

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

standing next to it, extending her hand, Irene

now please enter the

"Understood"

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

talent assessment, I knew that I

my E+ rank

they could more

-Clank!

sensation around my body as my mana instinctively

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

-Di! -Di!

the tingling

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

in the direction of where she was looking, a

...yep.

was no going

high profiled one, the test results would soon become public

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

Irene who

free

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

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

"Mhm"

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

not listen to what she had

I started thinking of the future

knew it was about time that I stopped

...

tapping on the earpiece in her ear, Irene softly

results came out, the student's rank has been determined to be E+

deep voice filled

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