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

knew where the location of the hidden task

the way what's your

"Ehm.."

avoided Kevin's eyes and

appeared in front of

:

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero program

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

looked at the information that was presented in front

young girl once again, Kevin couldn't help

the strongest in the

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

Kevin begged to

of all

with a certain level

level was a set limit that could never be changed no matter what

was unless you were Ren or Kevin who were

ranked D, then the best you could achieve throughout

your talent limit, no matter how much extra time you spent training, you

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

around him showed incredible talent that made them

who also had low talents blamed themselves for

mentality was strong and he was never saddened

that was until that

the day that demons managed to infiltrate his

city, no rescue came until dawn, five hours after

their lives in order to

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

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

not gotten over that day as it still haunts him 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 eroding his

never been able to survive, grow strong enough to rank first in

everything to the

managed to completely change

Everything about him changed.

course of a few months

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of

assed in regards to the profession one

something that could

of the second cataclysm and humans were able to access mana, strange status windows similar to the ones that appear in games appeared in

then, the age of the 'awakened' happened. Slowly people started familiarizing themselves with mana through which they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled them to

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

your natural

'Spearmanship' then it meant that your aptitude towards spearmanship was amplified naturally by the status

would be nowhere near as fast as their spear arts comprehension which

even if someone was talented in spear arts, their talent cap was still there. So if your talent cap was D-rank, then in your lifetime

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

have a level cap

the monsters,

required by the tamer to control the beasts, but even then, what mattered most was the

beasts regardless of their

in modern society 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,

S-rank pet was raised.

fully grown, their daily food

It was just inefficient.

to Kevin, this didn't matter