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, it was only natural that his

way

"Ehm.."

the young girl avoided Kevin's

appeared in

: Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero program

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

information that

again, Kevin couldn't help but

which profession he thought was the strongest in the world,

swordsmanship, or fancy professions that were flashy and

Kevin begged to

his opinion, the most fearsome out of all the professions

with a certain level

that could

that was unless you were Ren or Kevin who were

the best you could achieve throughout your whole life was becoming a

how much extra time

with the despair that stemmed from knowing their talent

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

who also had low talents

he was never saddened by

that was until

to infiltrate his hometown, and

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

parents had sacrificed their lives in order to

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

parents had said to him before closing the trapdoor that led to the basement and

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 state of mind.

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

everything to the

to the system he managed to completely change himself, his body,

Everything about him changed.

the course

But, what determined talent?

a measure of

case, talent was assed in regards to the

like talent caps, was something that could not be chosen nor

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

gained access to supernatural powers.

paid closely to their status window they would notice that, right below their status, there was a small section called

was your

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

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

that 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 you could only be a D-rank Hero

why Kevin believed her talent

a level cap because they

the monsters,

tamer to control

tamer could tame an unlimited number of beasts regardless of their potential. Making monster tamers

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

was raised. They fed

their daily food consumption alone could sustain a whole

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this