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

with them, since they knew where the location of the hidden task

the way what's

"Ehm.."

young girl avoided Kevin's eyes and

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

young girl once again, Kevin couldn't help but

was the strongest in the world, Kevin

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

begged to

of all the

born with a

level was a set limit that could never be

that was unless you were Ren or Kevin

your talent was ranked D, then the best you could achieve throughout your

much extra time you spent training,

with the despair that stemmed from knowing their

incredible talent that made them stand above their peers, Kevin was born with a mediocre E-rank talent. The worst possible talent that anyone

his parents who also had low talents

and he was

that was until that fateful

the day that demons managed to infiltrate his

no rescue

sacrificed their lives in

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

smile on their faces, those were the last words his parents had said to him before closing the

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

he would've never been

everything to

to completely

Everything about him changed.

went from an E-ranked talent to an SSS-rank talent over the course

But, what determined talent?

measure

assed in regards to the

talent caps, was something

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

with mana through which they gained access to supernatural

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

your natural

that your aptitude towards spearmanship was amplified

sword arts, their comprehension would be nowhere near as fast as their spear arts comprehension which was amplified by the

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 specialized in

her talent was the best, was because she did

have a level cap because they don't need

mattered was the monsters,

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

number of beasts regardless of their potential. Making monster tamers some

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

S-rank pet was raised. They fed

daily food consumption

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this