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

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

the way what's

"Ehm.."

the young girl avoided Kevin's eyes

screen appeared in front of

ID : Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero program

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

his chin, Kevin looked at the information that was presented

shy young girl once again, Kevin couldn't

one asked Kevin which profession he thought was the strongest in the world, Kevin would

most people would regard things such as swordsmanship, or fancy professions that were flashy and pleasing

Kevin begged

most fearsome out of all the professions

person was born with a certain

a set limit that could never be changed no

you were Ren or Kevin

best you could achieve throughout your whole life was becoming a D-rank

no matter how much extra time you spent

familiar with the despair that stemmed from knowing their talent

it. While everyone around him showed incredible talent that made them stand above their peers, Kevin was born with a mediocre

had low talents blamed themselves for his

he was never saddened by his low

was until that fateful

to infiltrate his hometown, and killed everyone

no rescue came until dawn, five hours after

sacrificed their lives in order to hide him from the

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

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

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. Kevin couldn't remember how many times he had woken up

suddenly appearing before him when 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 let alone enroll in the

owed everything

system he managed to completely

Everything about him changed.

course of a few months

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of

was assed in regards to the profession one

talent caps, was something that could

the time of the second cataclysm and humans were able to access mana, strange status windows similar to the

access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled them to do

window they would notice that, right

was your natural

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

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

in spear arts, their talent cap was still there. So if your talent

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

tamers don't have a level cap because they don't need

the monsters, not the

by the tamer to control the beasts,

of beasts regardless of their potential. Making monster tamers

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 the wealthiest people in

was

time they were fully grown, their daily food consumption

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this didn't