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

he had no interest in interacting with them, since they knew where the location of

way

"Ehm.."

avoided Kevin's eyes and

screen appeared in

: Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero program Year

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

his chin, Kevin looked at the information that was presented in front

girl once again, Kevin couldn't help but be slightly

thought was the strongest in the world, Kevin would without

things such as swordsmanship, or fancy professions

Kevin begged

fearsome out of

was born with a

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

that was unless you were Ren or

the best you could achieve throughout your whole life was

how much extra

all too familiar with the despair that stemmed from knowing their

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

had low talents blamed themselves for his

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

until that

demons managed to

city, no rescue came until dawn, five hours after the

sacrificed their lives in order to hide him

to

his parents had said to him before closing the trapdoor that led to the basement

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

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

everything to the

managed to completely change

Everything about him changed.

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

But, what determined talent?

a measure of

assed in regards to

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

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

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

your

it meant that your aptitude towards spearmanship was amplified

comprehension would be nowhere near as fast as their spear arts comprehension which

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

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

tamers don't have a level cap because they don't need to have

was the monsters, not the tamer

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

beasts regardless of their potential. Making monster tamers some of the

lot of complicated steps

S-rank pet was raised. They fed

fully grown, their daily food consumption

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this didn't