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

the way what's your

"Ehm.."

girl avoided Kevin's

a screen appeared in

ID : Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

Hero program Year

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

the information that was presented in

the shy young girl once again, Kevin couldn't help

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

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

begged to

his opinion, the most fearsome out of

with a certain level of

was a set limit that could never be

was unless you were Ren or

the best you could achieve throughout your

limit, no matter how much extra time you spent training, you

was all too familiar with the despair that stemmed from knowing their talent was too

his whole childhood he was bullied for it. While everyone around him showed incredible talent that made them stand above their

also had low talents blamed themselves for his

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

until that

that demons managed to infiltrate his

hometown was far away from any major city, no

their lives in order to hide him from

a good talent, sacrificing ourselves to let you live should be enough to atone for letting

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

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.

state, he would've never been able to survive, grow strong enough to rank first in the school ranking, and

everything to

completely change himself, his

Everything about him changed.

SSS-rank talent over the course of a

But, what determined talent?

measure of natural

talent was assed in regards to

something that could not

access mana, strange status windows similar to the ones that appear in games appeared in

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

your

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

if a person talented in spear arts trained in sword arts, their comprehension would be

talent cap was still there. So if your talent cap was D-rank, then in your lifetime you could only be a D-rank Hero

her talent

cap because

was the monsters, not the

by the tamer to control the beasts, but

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

them to tame a monster, as a lot of complicated steps were required. Moreover, the

pet was raised. They fed

grown, their daily food consumption alone could sustain

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this