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 to

artifact was no longer capable of assessing my talent

orb wasn't reacting to

-Clank!

took the call, not long after a man wearing

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

set up,

place your

placed my hand on the

"Sure"

the orb did

"What?"

the orb not light up again, Irene directly moved towards the orb and placed her hand on

wanted to test it

orb was broken, however, seeing

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

on the orb, it quickly

being displayed on the orb, lifting her head and looking at me she

"Are you human?"

her comment, my mouth

"I think I am"

your body allergic to the orb

"...how should I know?"

of logic

Allergic to the orb?

what was going on

look on her face, Irene turned around and moved towards a secluded area of the room as she

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

escaped from my mouth as I stared at the

this point, we were just

to be able to measure

say this out

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

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

Good.

like they have given up on my talent

"Okay"

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 what that machine

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

me was a machine

the technicalities of the machine, I knew that it could measure someone's rank extremely accurately with an extremely small margin of

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

next to it,

now please

"Understood"

head as an extended sigh escaped from my mouth, I calmly

before with my talent assessment, I knew that

knew that my E+ rank would soon

there, although they wouldn't be able to know what my talent was, 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 my mana instinctively channeled around my

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

-Di! -Di!

my prayers were quickly answered as not long after, the tingling sensation

the

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

...yep.

no

fairly high profiled one, the test results would soon become

I knew that I could

my attention back to Irene who was

I free to

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

leave. We have taken all of your answers and have also finished with the testing, you are free to go. We

"Mhm"

explanation, I nodded my head and quickly

not listen to

racing as I started thinking of the future that lay ahead

knew it was about

...

figure leaving the hall, tapping on the earpiece

the student's rank

spoke, a deep voice filled with authority echoed in

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