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.

the results were

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

why the orb wasn't reacting to

-Clank!

efficiency of the central government 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 Irene's direction

the orb was once again set up,

your

and placed my

"Sure"

did not light

"What?"

light up again, Irene directly moved towards the orb and placed

wanted to

she had not done this because she genuinely thought that the orb was broken, however, seeing

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

on the orb, it quickly turned yellow indicating to me

at the yellow color being displayed on the orb,

"Are you human?"

comment, my

"I think I am"

working, is your body allergic to the

"...how should I know?"

of

Allergic to the orb?

going on through

around and moved towards a secluded area of

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

escaped from my mouth as

we were just

what they were going to try, they were never going to be able to measure my limit. This was what

I could not say this

conclusion, returning towards where I was standing, Irene calmly pointed towards the right side of the

Mr. Dover, it seems like we will leave that test aside for now. For now, we will now measure

Good.

given up on my talent assessment for

"Okay"

stood upright. Next to the capsule was a black monitor that was facing away from the capsule with different numbers and

bitter smile appeared

had never seen it in real

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

machine before me was a machine that measured

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

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

next to it, extending her hand,

now please enter

"Understood"

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

assessment, I

that my E+ rank would

could more or less

-Clank!

sensation around my

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

-Di! -Di!

not long after, the tingling sensation stopped and the capsule

capsule, as the steam dyed down, the first thing

was looking, a bitter smile on my face as I saw

...yep.

no going

public case and a fairly high profiled one, the

once that happened, I knew that I could no longer operate as

my attention back to Irene who was looking through

free to

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

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

"Mhm"

nodded my head and quickly made

listen to what

thinking of the future that

it was about time that I stopped

...

on the earpiece in her ear,

the student's rank has been determined to be

Irene spoke, a deep voice filled with authority echoed in

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