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

way

"Ehm.."

young girl avoided Kevin's eyes and swiped

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 in

shy young girl once again, Kevin

asked Kevin which profession he thought was the strongest in

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

begged to

out of

was born with a certain level of

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

that was unless you were Ren or Kevin who

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

extra time

despair that stemmed from knowing their talent was

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

had low talents

he was never saddened by his low

was until

the day that demons managed to infiltrate

hometown was far away from any major city, no rescue came

sacrificed their lives in order

enough to atone for letting you be born with a low talent that made you

smile on their faces, those were the last words his parents had said to him before closing the trapdoor

like a seed had been implanted inside of him, slowly eroding

he would've never been able to survive, grow strong enough to rank first in the school ranking, and

everything

he managed to completely change

Everything about him changed.

SSS-rank talent over the course of a few months due to some strange elixir the system

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of natural

in regards to the profession

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

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

which they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers

notice that, right below their status, there

was your

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

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

had different levels of talent in regards to their natural talent. Meaning 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 who specialized in spear

believed her talent was the best, was because she did not have a talent

tamers don't have a level cap

the monsters,

a certain amount of control was required by the tamer to control

regardless of their potential. Making monster

complicated steps were required. Moreover, the financial

pet was raised.

fully grown, their daily food consumption alone

It was just inefficient.

to Kevin, this