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.

results were going to be the

seed of limit, the artifact was no longer capable of assessing my talent

why the orb wasn't

-Clank!

after a man wearing a black suit

man did not stay for long as he nodded his

set up, Irene once

place your

and placed my hand

"Sure"

orb did not light

"What?"

again, Irene directly moved towards the orb and placed

she wanted to test

broken, however, seeing a similar reaction from the

-Fwua!

...and she was right.

hand on the orb, it quickly turned yellow indicating to me that her talent limit was

being displayed on the orb, lifting her

"Are you human?"

comment,

"I think I am"

your body

"...how should I know?"

of

Allergic to the orb?

going on

her face, Irene turned around and moved

"Give me a second"

"Alright, alright"

*Sigh*

mouth as I

point, we were

be able to measure my limit.

say this out loud resulting in this

towards where I was standing, Irene calmly

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

Good.

they have given up on my talent assessment

"Okay"

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

machine, a bitter smile appeared on my

had never seen it in real life, I

...Measure someone's rank.

Yes.

me was a

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

how much someone tried to hide or suppress their rank,

towards the capsule and standing next to it, extending her hand,

please enter the

"Understood"

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

talent assessment, I knew that

that my E+

they could more or less make a guess as a 16-year old E + rank

-Clank!

sensation around my body as my

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

-Di! -Di!

long after, the tingling sensation stopped and the capsule

steam dyed down, the

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 large E+ displayed

...yep.

was no going

a public case and a fairly high profiled one, the test results

that I

along those lines, turning my attention back to Irene who was looking

free to

my annoyed voice as she looked at me

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

"Mhm"

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

honestly, did not listen to

mind was currently racing as I started thinking of the future

circumstances, I knew it was about time

...

figure leaving the hall, tapping on

the results came out, the student's rank has

deep voice filled with authority echoed

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