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

them, since they knew where the location of the hidden task was, it was only natural that his interest

by the way what's your

"Ehm.."

looking down, the young girl avoided Kevin's eyes and swiped

a screen appeared in

ID :

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero program

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

at the information that was presented in front of

girl once again, Kevin couldn't help

asked Kevin which profession he thought was the strongest in the world, Kevin would without a doubt say the monster

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

begged

opinion, the most fearsome out of all the professions

was born with a certain level of

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

Ren or

you could achieve throughout your whole life was

much extra time you spent

the despair that stemmed from knowing their talent

showed incredible talent that made them stand above their

also had low talents

Kevin's mentality was strong and he was never saddened by his low level of

was until that

demons managed to

any major city, no rescue came until dawn, five hours after the massacre

had sacrificed their lives in order

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

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

immune system. It was almost like a seed had been implanted inside of him,

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 rank first in the school ranking, and let alone enroll in

owed everything to the

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

Everything about him changed.

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

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of natural

in

was something that could not be

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

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 status, there was a small section called

your

meant that your aptitude towards

if a person talented in spear arts trained in sword arts, their comprehension would be nowhere near as fast

was talented in spear arts, their talent cap was still there. So if your talent cap was D-rank, then in your lifetime you

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

have a level cap because

the monsters,

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

regardless of their potential. Making monster tamers some of the scariest opponents

highly regarded. This was simply due to how difficult it was for them to tame a monster, as a lot of complicated steps

pet was raised. They fed on

food consumption alone could sustain a

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this didn't matter