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

no interest in interacting with them, since they knew where the location of

way

"Ehm.."

girl avoided Kevin's eyes

screen appeared in front of

ID : Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

Hero

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

Kevin looked at the information that was presented in front of

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

which profession he thought was the strongest in the

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

begged

of all the professions was the monster

person was born with a

set limit that could never be changed no

you were Ren

could achieve throughout your whole life was

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

too familiar with the despair that stemmed from knowing their talent was

was bullied for it. While everyone around him showed incredible talent that made them stand above their peers, Kevin was born with a mediocre

his parents who also had

strong and he was never saddened by his

until that

the day that demons managed to infiltrate his hometown, and

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

their lives in order to hide him

let you live should be enough to atone for letting you be born with a low talent that made you suffer throughout

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

that never ceases to attack the immune system. It was almost like a seed had been implanted inside

was in his most dire state, he would've never

everything to

he managed to completely change himself, his body, his talent, his

Everything about him changed.

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

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of natural

talent was assed in regards to the profession

was something

strange status windows similar to the ones that appear in games appeared in front

of the 'awakened' happened. Slowly people started familiarizing themselves with mana through which they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled them to do things that they could've never

notice that,

was your

that your aptitude towards spearmanship was amplified naturally by

would be nowhere near as fast as

was talented in spear arts, their talent cap was still there. So if your talent cap was D-rank, then in your lifetime you could only be a D-rank Hero who

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

cap because they

the monsters, not the

tamer to control the

could tame an unlimited number of beasts regardless of their potential. Making monster tamers some of the scariest opponents

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,

pet was raised. They

were fully grown, their daily food consumption alone could sustain a whole

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this