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

they knew where the location of the hidden task was, it was only natural that

the way what's your

"Ehm.."

the young girl avoided Kevin's eyes and swiped her hand

a screen appeared in front

ID : Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

Kevin looked at the information that was presented

again, Kevin couldn't help

thought was the strongest in the world, Kevin

professions that were flashy and pleasing to the eye as

begged to

out of all the professions was

was born with a

was a set limit that could never be changed no

you were Ren or

your talent was ranked D, then the best you could achieve throughout your whole life was becoming

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

was all too familiar with the despair that

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

his parents who also had low talents

was never saddened by

was until that fateful

the day that demons managed to infiltrate his hometown, and

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

in order

be enough to atone for letting you be born with a low

those were the last words his parents had said to him before closing the trapdoor that led to the basement and disappearing from his

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

a strange system suddenly appearing before him when he was in his most dire state, he would've never been able to survive, grow strong enough to

everything

completely change himself, his

Everything about him changed.

talent to an SSS-rank talent over the course of a few months due

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of natural

this case, talent was assed in regards to the

like talent caps, was something that could

able to access mana, strange status windows similar

through which they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers

their status window they would notice that, right below

your natural

meant that your aptitude towards spearmanship was amplified naturally by

comprehension would be

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

believed her talent was

a level cap

was the monsters, not

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

of

them to tame a monster, as a lot of complicated steps were required. Moreover, the financial burden one would incur just

pet was raised. They fed

time they were fully grown, their daily food consumption

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this