The Author's POV

"pfff, you can't even remember the faces of your own teammates?"

Smirking, Jin mockingly looked at Kevin.

"Oh? so you're telling me that you remember the face of all your teammates?"

Raising his brow, Kevin turned around and skeptically looked at Jin.

"..."

Turning around, Jin pretended to have not heard Kevin and walked away.

Dumbfounded, Kevin helplessly looked in Emma and Amanda's direction, only to be left even more speechless.

Swiftly moving around the trees, Emma was currently being chased by Amanda whose face remained expressionless.

-Swish!

-Swish!

-Swish

Taking out her bow. At an inhuman speed, Amanda's fingers danced between the bow and the quiver. Soon, three arrows flew in Emma's direction at a speed that couldn't be seen by the naked eye.

-Thud! -Thud! -Thud!

"Stop! Stop! Stop! I give up!"

Taking cover behind a tree, Emma raised her hands in defeat as she fearfully looked at the arrows that were imbued on the tree she was hiding. Each arrow perfectly penetrated the hard outer shell of the tree. Looking closely, the tip of each arrow was only a few centimeters from Emma's face, sending cold shivers down her spine. If it weren't for the fact that Amanda restrained herself, Emma might've actually died.

Shaking his head, Kevin turned his attention back to the young girl, not before letting out a long sigh. He was starting to doubt whether grouping with them was the right thing to do.

'Maybe if Melissa was here things wouldn't have been as bad...'

Thought Kevin for a moment before shaking his head.

Knowing Melissa's personality, things might've actually turned out for the worse.

Sighing once again, and ignoring the commotion that Amanda and Emma were causing, Kevin squinted his eyes and took a good look at the girl before him.

She was a beautiful, light-skinned young girl with a petite yet curvaceous frame and below-average height. She had long, slightly curly black hair that reached all the way to her back. Her large crystal eyes were slightly covered by short square bangs. She had plump rosy cheeks which accompanied by her short figure made one want to tightly squeeze them.

"Did you come to me to ask me to protect you?"

"N-no!"

Quickly shaking her head, the young girl timidly pointed towards another group of people in the distance.

"They sa-id that they know where the hidden task was..."

"...oh?"

Taking one good look at the members in the distance, Kevin was reminded of the people he had previously seen in the waiting room.

Although he did not remember the young girl, he did remember two out of the four individuals gathered.

They were the most arrogant and prideful of the bunch, so of course, he knew about them.

If he didn't remember wrong, they should've been ranked around the hundreds and were extremely prideful of their ranking. They were so proud and arrogant that they thought that they could fight Kevin on equal terms.

Like they all say...

Powerful people often grew confident, and confident people were often conceited.

Power gets in the head of everyone. Kevin was no better, but because he had a clear goal, he managed to suppress his inner desires.

Shaking his head, he walked towards them

since they knew where the location of the hidden task was, it

by the way what's

"Ehm.."

young girl avoided

a screen appeared

ID :

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

his chin, Kevin looked at the information that was presented in front

shy young girl once again, Kevin couldn't help but

was the strongest in

such as swordsmanship, or fancy professions that were

begged

fearsome out of

with

set limit that could never be changed no

Ren or Kevin

then the best you could achieve throughout your whole life

extra time you spent training, you would never be able to

familiar with the despair that stemmed from knowing

throughout his whole childhood he was bullied for it. While everyone around him showed incredible talent that made them stand above their peers, Kevin was born with a mediocre E-rank talent. The worst

had low talents blamed themselves for his

and he was never

that was until

day that demons managed to infiltrate his hometown, and killed

away from any major city, no rescue came until dawn, five hours after the

parents had sacrificed their lives in order

to atone for letting

last words his parents had said to him before closing the trapdoor that

he had still not gotten over that day as it still haunts him in his dreams, like a plague that never ceases to attack the immune system. It was almost like a seed

in his most dire state, he would've never been able to survive, grow strong enough to

everything

system he managed to completely change

Everything about him changed.

to an SSS-rank talent over the course of a few months due to some strange elixir the system

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of

in

caps, was something that could not be chosen

humans were able to access mana, strange status windows similar to the ones

Slowly people started familiarizing themselves with mana through which they gained access to supernatural powers.

status window they would notice that, right below their status, there was a small section

was your

status window showed 'Spearmanship' then it meant that your aptitude towards spearmanship was

be nowhere near as fast as their spear

spear arts, their talent cap was still there. So if your talent cap was D-rank, then in your

Kevin believed her talent was the best, was because she did not have

level cap because they don't need

monsters, not the tamer

certain amount of control was required by the tamer to control the beasts, but even then, what mattered

of beasts regardless of

society monster tamers weren't highly regarded. This was simply due to how difficult it was for them to tame a monster, as a lot of complicated steps were required. Moreover, the financial burden one would incur just to raise a monster could even cause

an S-rank pet was raised. They fed on

time they were fully grown, their daily food consumption alone

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this didn't matter