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

them, since they knew where the location of the

by the way what's

"Ehm.."

looking down, the young girl avoided Kevin's eyes

screen appeared in front

ID :

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

Hero

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

looked at the information that was

once again,

thought was the strongest in the world,

regard things such as swordsmanship, or fancy professions

Kevin begged to

opinion, the most fearsome out of

person was born with a certain level

set limit that could never be

were Ren or

was ranked D, then the best you could achieve throughout your whole life was becoming a

extra time you spent training, you would never be able

too familiar with the despair that stemmed

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 possible talent that anyone could

the time, his parents who also had low talents blamed themselves for his

was never saddened by his

until that

that demons managed to infiltrate his hometown, and killed everyone

was far away from any major city, no rescue came until dawn, five hours

lives in order to hide him from the

give you a good talent, sacrificing ourselves to let you live should be enough to atone for letting

faces, those were the last words his parents had said to him

haunts him in his dreams, like a plague that never ceases to attack the immune system. It was almost like a seed had been implanted inside of him, slowly eroding his state

would've never been able to survive, grow strong enough to rank first in the school ranking, and let alone enroll in the

owed everything to

managed to completely

Everything about him changed.

went from an E-ranked talent to an SSS-rank talent over the course of a few months due

But, what determined talent?

measure of natural

case, talent was assed in regards

profession, like talent caps, was something that could not be chosen

cataclysm and humans were able to access mana, strange status windows

to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled them to do things that they could've never have hoped to achieve

that, right below their status, there was

your

your status window showed 'Spearmanship' then it meant that your aptitude towards spearmanship was amplified naturally by the status

would be nowhere near as fast as their

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

the case of Ava, the reason why Kevin believed her talent was the best, was because she

a level cap because they don't need to

mattered was the monsters, not

of control was required by the tamer to control the beasts, but even then,

tamer could tame an unlimited number of beasts regardless of their potential. Making

them to tame a monster, as a lot of complicated steps were required.

was raised. They fed on monster

daily food

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this