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 the hidden task was, it was only natural that his interest was

by the way what's your

"Ehm.."

young girl avoided Kevin's eyes and swiped

a screen appeared

ID : Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

Hero program

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

looked at the information

once again, Kevin

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

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

begged

fearsome out of all the

person was born with

could never be changed no matter

were Ren or Kevin who were both

then the best you could achieve throughout your whole

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

the despair that stemmed from knowing

It was so bad that throughout his whole childhood he was bullied for it. While everyone around him showed incredible talent that made them stand above their peers, Kevin was born with a mediocre E-rank talent. The worst possible talent

had low talents blamed themselves for his

was strong and he was never saddened by his low level

until that fateful

the day that demons managed to infiltrate his hometown, and killed everyone without

city, no rescue

lives in

though we couldn't give you a good talent, sacrificing ourselves to let you live should be enough to atone

said

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 his state of mind.

him when he was in his most dire state, he would've never been able to survive, grow

everything to the

managed to completely

Everything about him changed.

course of a few months due to some strange

But, what determined talent?

measure of natural

this case, talent was assed in regards

something that could not be chosen nor

strange status windows similar to the ones

then, the age of 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 to achieve

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

was your

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

be nowhere near as fast as their spear arts

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

reason why Kevin believed her talent was the best, was because she did not

have a level cap because

the monsters,

the tamer to control the beasts, but even then,

could tame an unlimited number of beasts regardless of their potential. Making monster tamers some of the scariest opponents to

of complicated steps were required. Moreover, the financial burden one would incur just to raise a monster could even cause

an S-rank pet was raised. They

their daily food consumption alone

It was just inefficient.

to Kevin, this