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

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

by the way what's

"Ehm.."

down, the young girl avoided Kevin's eyes and

appeared in front of

: Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

Hero

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

Kevin looked at the information

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

thought was the strongest in the

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

begged

his opinion, the most fearsome out of all the professions was the

person was born with a certain level of

limit that could never be changed no matter what

was unless you were Ren or Kevin

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

no matter how much extra time you spent training, you would never be

that stemmed from knowing their

Kevin's 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

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

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

until that fateful

was the day that demons managed to

major city, no rescue came until dawn, five

had sacrificed their lives in order

couldn't give you a good talent, sacrificing ourselves to let you live should be enough to atone for letting you be

parents had said to him before closing

in his dreams, like a plague that never ceases to attack the immune system. It was almost like a seed had been implanted inside of him, slowly

he would've never been able to survive, grow strong

everything to the

completely change

Everything about him changed.

talent over the course

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of

was assed in regards to

caps, was something that could not be chosen nor

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

themselves with mana through which they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled them to do things that they could've never have hoped to achieve

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

your

your aptitude towards spearmanship was

trained in sword arts, their comprehension would be nowhere near as fast as their spear arts comprehension

talent cap

talent

cap because

mattered was the monsters,

control was required by the tamer to control the beasts,

of their potential. Making monster tamers some of the scariest opponents to

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 just to raise a monster could even cause some of

an S-rank pet was raised.

grown, their daily food consumption alone could

It was just inefficient.

this didn't