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

in interacting with them, since they knew where the location

way what's your

"Ehm.."

down, the young girl avoided Kevin's eyes and swiped her hand

screen appeared

: Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero program Year

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

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

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

which profession he thought was the strongest in the world, Kevin would without

people would regard things such as swordsmanship, or fancy professions that were flashy and pleasing

begged

fearsome out of all the professions was the

person was born with a

was a set limit that could never be changed

were Ren or Kevin who were

you could achieve throughout your whole life

reached your talent limit, no matter how much extra time you spent training, you would

despair that stemmed

whole childhood he was bullied for it. While everyone around him showed incredible talent that made

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

Kevin's mentality was strong and he was never saddened by his

that was until

demons managed to infiltrate his hometown, and killed everyone without

hometown was far away from any major city, no rescue came until dawn, five hours after the massacre

sacrificed their lives in order to hide

you live should be enough to atone

on their faces, those were the last words his parents had said to him before closing the trapdoor that led to the basement and

a seed had

dire state, he would've never been able to survive, grow strong enough to rank first in the school

owed everything to the

to the system he managed to completely

Everything about him changed.

talent to an SSS-rank talent over the course of a few months

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of

was assed in regards to

caps, was something that could not

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

'awakened' happened. Slowly people started familiarizing themselves with mana through which they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled

someone paid closely to their status window they would notice that, right below their status, there

was your

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

if a person talented in spear arts trained in sword arts, their comprehension would be

talent. Meaning that even if someone was talented in spear arts, their talent cap was still there. So if your talent cap was D-rank, then in your lifetime

talent was the

cap because they don't need to

was the monsters, not the

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

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

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

pet was raised. They

their daily food consumption alone could sustain a whole

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this didn't