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.

were going to

the artifact was no longer capable of assessing my talent as

the orb wasn't reacting to

-Clank!

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

orb was once again set up, Irene once again took

place your hand

I moved and placed my hand on the

"Sure"

did not

"What?"

directly moved towards

time she wanted to

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

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

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

color being displayed on the orb, lifting

"Are you human?"

comment, my

"I think I am"

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

"...how should I know?"

kind of logic was

Allergic to the orb?

was going

on her face, Irene turned around

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

mouth as

point, we were just

they were never going to be able to measure

this out loud resulting in this

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

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

Good.

have given up on my talent assessment for

"Okay"

upright. Next to the capsule was a black monitor that was facing away from the

bitter smile appeared on my

in real life, I instantly

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

me was a machine that

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

hide or suppress their rank, it would not go unnoticed by

next to

now please

"Understood"

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

I knew that I couldn't dodge

that 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!

I suddenly felt a weird tingling sensation around my body as my mana instinctively channeled around my body, and a white hue exuded

feeling was not annoying, it was still uncomfortable

-Di! -Di!

long after, the tingling

down, the first thing I saw was

looking in the direction of where she was looking, a bitter smile on

...yep.

no going

public case and a fairly high profiled one, the test results

I could

along those lines, turning my attention back to Irene

free to

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

free to go. We will soon send you an email detailing the follow-up of our investigation. Thank

"Mhm"

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

listen to what she

thinking

the circumstances, I knew it was about time that

...

leaving the hall, tapping on

the student's rank has been determined to be

spoke, a deep voice filled with authority echoed

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