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

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

orb wasn't

-Clank!

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

with the new one, the man did not stay for long as he nodded his

was once again set up,

your

placed

"Sure"

orb did

"What?"

moved towards the orb and placed

wanted

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

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

as she placed her hand on the orb, it quickly turned

on the orb, lifting her head and looking at

"Are you human?"

her comment, my

"I think I am"

why is this not working, is your body

"...how should I know?"

kind of logic was

Allergic to the orb?

was going on through her

Irene turned around

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

head, another sigh escaped from my mouth as I

this point, we

of what they were going to try, they were never going to be able to measure

not say this

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

will leave that test aside

Good.

given up

"Okay"

at, I soon spotted a large metallic capsule that stood upright. Next to the capsule was a black monitor

the machine, a bitter smile appeared

I had never seen it in real life, I instantly

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

machine before me was a machine

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

to hide or suppress their rank, it

capsule and standing next to

now please enter

"Understood"

sigh escaped from my mouth, I calmly walked

I knew

E+ rank would

there, although they wouldn't be able to know what my talent was, they could more or

-Clank!

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 body,

I was feeling was not annoying, it was still

-Di! -Di!

long after, the tingling sensation

the first

shock 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 the

...yep.

was no going

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

I could no longer

lines, turning my attention back to Irene who was looking through her tablet, I irritably

free to

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

have also finished with the testing, you are free to go. We will soon send you an email detailing the follow-up of

"Mhm"

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

did not listen to what she had

was currently racing as I started thinking of the future that lay ahead

the circumstances, I knew it was about time

...

figure leaving the hall, tapping on the earpiece in her ear, Irene

out, the student's rank

deep voice filled

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