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

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

way what's your

"Ehm.."

the young girl avoided Kevin's

a screen appeared

:

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

information that was presented

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

was the strongest in the world, Kevin

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

begged to

out of all the professions was the

was born with

could never be changed no

unless you were Ren

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

reached your talent limit, no matter how much extra time you spent training, you would never be able

all too familiar with the despair that stemmed from knowing

bullied for it. 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

time, his parents who also had low talents blamed

was strong and he was never

that was until that

was the day that demons managed to infiltrate his hometown,

any major city, no rescue came until dawn,

in order to

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

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

ceases to attack the immune system. It was almost like a seed had

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

everything to the

managed to completely change himself, his body,

Everything about him changed.

the course of a few

But, what determined talent?

a measure of

talent was assed in regards to the

like talent caps, was something that could not be chosen

mana, strange status windows similar to the ones that appear in games

they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled

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

was your natural

window showed 'Spearmanship' then it meant that your

be nowhere near as fast

course, everyone had different levels of talent in regards to their natural talent. Meaning that even if someone was talented in spear arts, their talent cap was still there. So

the reason why Kevin believed her talent was the best, was because she did not

a level cap because

was the monsters,

tamer to control the beasts, but even then, what

beasts regardless of their potential. Making

as a lot of complicated steps were required. Moreover, the financial

an S-rank pet was raised. They fed

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

It was just inefficient.

this didn't