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

artifact was no longer capable of assessing my talent as it was

why the orb wasn't reacting to my

-Clank!

was high. After Irene took the call, not long after a man wearing a black suit came

one, the man did not stay for long as he nodded his head in

up, Irene once again

place your hand

I moved and placed my

"Sure"

the orb did not

"What?"

moved towards the

time she wanted

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.

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

the orb, lifting

"Are you human?"

comment, my mouth

"I think I am"

is your

"...how should I know?"

kind of logic

Allergic to the orb?

was going

on her face, Irene turned around

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

sigh escaped from my mouth as I stared at the orb

we

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

this

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

seems like we will leave that test aside

Good.

seems like they have given up on my talent assessment

"Okay"

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

a bitter smile appeared

seen it in real life, I instantly knew what that machine

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

was a machine that measured

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

suppress their rank, it would not go unnoticed

towards the capsule and standing next to it, extending

now please

"Understood"

escaped from my mouth, I calmly

my talent assessment, I knew

E+

talent was, they could more or less make a guess as a 16-year old

-Clank!

after the 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

not annoying, it was still uncomfortable therefore I wished

-Di! -Di!

were quickly answered as not long after, the tingling sensation

the capsule, as the steam dyed down, the first thing I saw was

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

...yep.

was no going

one, the test results would soon become public for the whole world

that happened, I knew that I could

attention back to Irene who was looking through her

free to

voice as she looked at me in

you are free to go. We will soon

"Mhm"

head and quickly made my way towards

honestly, did not listen to what she

was currently racing as I started thinking

I knew it was

...

the hall, tapping on the earpiece

the results came out, the student's rank

voice

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