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

where the location of the hidden task was, it was only natural

the way what's

"Ehm.."

avoided Kevin's eyes and swiped

screen appeared in front

: Ava

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

Hero

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

looked at the information that

at the shy young girl once again,

Kevin which profession he thought was the strongest in the world,

most people would regard things such as swordsmanship, or fancy professions that were

Kevin begged

fearsome out of all

with

could never be changed

you were Ren or

then the best you could achieve throughout your whole life was becoming a

your talent limit, no matter how much extra time

with the despair that

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

who also had low talents

was strong and he was never saddened by his low level

was until

demons managed to

any major city, no rescue

lives in order to

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

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

he had still not gotten over 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. Kevin couldn't remember

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

everything

system he managed to completely change himself,

Everything about him changed.

SSS-rank talent over the course

But, what determined talent?

a measure of

was assed in

profession, like talent caps, was something that could not be

time of the second cataclysm and humans were able to access mana, strange status windows similar to the ones that appear in games appeared in front of

'awakened' happened. Slowly people started familiarizing themselves with mana through which they gained access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled them to

window they would notice that, right below their

was your natural

status window showed 'Spearmanship' then it meant that your aptitude

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

regards to their natural talent. Meaning that even if someone was talented in spear arts, their 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 who specialized in spear

believed her talent was the best, was

level cap because they don't need to

mattered was the monsters,

to control the beasts, but even then, what

of their potential. Making monster tamers some

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

pet was raised. They

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

It was just inefficient.

Kevin, this didn't matter