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 of the hidden task was, it was only

way what's

"Ehm.."

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

appeared

ID : Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

Hero program

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

at the information

shy young girl once again,

thought was the strongest in the world, Kevin would without

fancy professions that were flashy and pleasing to the eye

Kevin begged to

fearsome out of all the professions was

was born with a certain level

that could never be changed no matter what someone

that was unless you were Ren or Kevin who were both

the best you could achieve throughout your whole life was becoming a D-rank

much extra time

that

talent was terrible. It was so bad that 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

also had low talents blamed themselves for his poor

Kevin's mentality was strong and he was never

until that fateful 'day'

was the day that demons managed to infiltrate his hometown, and killed

far away from any major city, no rescue came until

in order to hide him from the

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

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

that never ceases to attack the immune system. It was almost like a seed had been implanted inside of him, slowly eroding his state of mind. Kevin couldn't remember how many times he had woken up because of the nightmares, only to

appearing before him when he was in his most dire state, he would've never been able to survive, grow strong enough to rank

everything

to completely change himself, his body, his

Everything about him changed.

the course of a

But, what determined talent?

measure of natural

was assed in regards to

something that could not

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

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

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

your natural

meant that your aptitude towards spearmanship was amplified naturally by the

arts, their comprehension would be nowhere near as fast as

arts, their talent cap was still there. So if your

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

have a level cap because they don't

monsters, not the

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

regardless of their potential. Making monster tamers

of complicated steps were required. Moreover, the financial burden one would incur just to raise a monster could even cause some of the wealthiest people in the

if an S-rank pet was raised. They fed on

fully grown, their daily food consumption alone could sustain a

It was just inefficient.

this didn't