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.

for them, the results were going to be the

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

why the orb wasn't reacting to

-Clank!

a man wearing a black suit came in holding

man did not stay for long as he nodded his head in Irene's

orb was once again set up, Irene once again took

your hand

moved and placed my hand on

"Sure"

the orb did not light

"What?"

moved towards the orb and placed her hand on

she wanted to test it

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

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

hand on the orb, it quickly turned

at the yellow color being displayed on the orb, lifting her head and looking

"Are you human?"

her comment,

"I think I am"

this not working, is your

"...how should I know?"

of

Allergic to the orb?

was going on through

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

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

escaped from my mouth as I stared at

we were just wasting

try, they were never going to be

this out loud resulting in this

higher-ups and coming up with a conclusion, returning towards where I was standing, Irene calmly pointed towards the right side

like we will leave that test

Good.

have given up on my talent

"Okay"

metallic capsule that stood upright. Next to the capsule

a bitter

had never seen it in real life,

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

was a

machine, I knew that it could measure someone's rank extremely accurately

someone tried to hide or suppress their rank, it would

standing next to it, extending

please enter

"Understood"

escaped from my mouth, I calmly walked towards the large capsule in the distance and entered

I knew that I couldn't dodge this

my E+

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!

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

feeling was not annoying, it was still uncomfortable therefore I

-Di! -Di!

long after, the tingling sensation stopped and the capsule opened and steam rose

dyed down, the first thing I

on Irene's face, turning around and looking in the direction of where she was

...yep.

was no going

the test results would soon become public for the

that I

Irene who

I free

out of her thoughts was my annoyed voice as she looked at me in

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

"Mhm"

her explanation, I nodded my head and quickly made my

honestly, did not listen to what

currently racing as I started thinking of

the circumstances, I knew it was about time that I stopped

...

tapping on the earpiece in her ear,

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

Irene spoke, a deep voice

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