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 was, it

the way what's your

"Ehm.."

young girl avoided Kevin's eyes and swiped her

appeared in

ID :

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

shy young girl once again, Kevin couldn't help but be

Kevin which profession he thought was the strongest in the world, Kevin would without

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

Kevin begged

of all the professions was the monster

person was born with a certain

that could never be changed no matter what

that was unless you were Ren or

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

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

with the despair that stemmed from knowing their talent was

was terrible. It was so bad that throughout his whole childhood he was bullied for it. While everyone around him showed incredible talent that

time, his parents who also had low talents blamed themselves for

was never saddened by his low level of

until that

to infiltrate his hometown,

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

had sacrificed their lives in order to hide him

sacrificing ourselves to let you live should be enough to atone for

his parents had said to him before closing

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

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

owed everything

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

Everything about him changed.

from an E-ranked talent to an SSS-rank talent over the course of a few months due to some strange elixir

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of

case, talent was assed in regards

talent caps, was something that could

mana, strange status

the 'awakened' happened. Slowly people started familiarizing themselves with mana through which they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled them to do things that they could've never have hoped

their status window they would notice that, right below their

your natural

meant that your aptitude towards spearmanship was amplified naturally by the

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

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

case of Ava, the reason why Kevin believed her talent was the best, was because she

don't have a level cap

the monsters, not the

was required by the tamer to control the

an unlimited number of beasts regardless of

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 the world to

an S-rank pet was raised. They fed on monster

daily food consumption alone could sustain a whole

It was just inefficient.

to Kevin, this didn't matter