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

had no interest in interacting with them, since they knew where the location of the hidden task was, it

the way what's

"Ehm.."

looking down, the young girl avoided Kevin's eyes

appeared in front of

ID :

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

Hero program

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

chin, Kevin looked at the information that was presented in

at the shy young girl once again,

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

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

Kevin begged to

of

was born with a certain level

set limit that could never

you were Ren or Kevin

could achieve throughout your whole life was becoming a

no matter how much extra time you spent training,

familiar with the despair that stemmed from knowing their

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

his parents who also had

he was never saddened

that was until that fateful 'day'

was the day that demons managed to infiltrate

from any major city, no rescue

had sacrificed their lives in order to hide

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

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

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

strange system suddenly appearing before him when he was in his most dire state, he would've never

everything

completely change himself, his body,

Everything about him changed.

talent over the course of a few months due to some strange

But, what determined talent?

was a measure of

was assed in regards to the profession

caps, was something that could not be chosen nor

able to access mana, strange status windows similar to the ones

people started familiarizing themselves with mana through which they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled them to do things that

window they would notice that, right below their status, there was a

was your natural

that your aptitude towards spearmanship was amplified naturally by

talented in spear arts trained in sword arts, their comprehension would be nowhere

their talent cap was still there. So if your talent cap

the reason why Kevin believed her talent was the

cap because they don't

the monsters, not the

the tamer to control the beasts, but even then, what

of their potential.

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 the

was raised. They fed

fully grown, their daily food consumption alone could sustain a whole city for

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this