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

interest in interacting with them, since they knew where the location of the hidden task was, it was only natural that

by the way what's

"Ehm.."

girl avoided

appeared in front of

:

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

: Hero program

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

at the information that

young girl once again,

Kevin which profession he thought was the strongest in the

such as swordsmanship, or fancy professions that were flashy and pleasing to

begged to

out of all

born with a certain level

limit that could never be changed no matter what

Ren or Kevin

best you could achieve throughout

how much extra

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

showed incredible talent that made them stand above

time, his parents who also had low talents blamed themselves for

was strong and he was never saddened by his low level of

was until that fateful 'day'

day that demons managed to infiltrate his hometown, and killed

any major city, no rescue came until dawn, five hours

sacrificed their lives in

sacrificing ourselves to let you live should be enough to atone for letting

said to him before closing

seed had been implanted inside of him, slowly eroding his state of mind. Kevin couldn't remember how many times he had woken

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

owed everything

system he managed to completely change himself, his body, his talent, his

Everything about him changed.

the course of a

But, what determined talent?

measure of

talent was assed in regards

talent caps, was something

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

happened. Slowly people started familiarizing themselves with mana through which they gained access to supernatural powers.

to their status window they would notice that, right below their status,

was your natural

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

in sword arts, their comprehension would be nowhere near as fast as

spear arts, their talent cap was still there. So if your talent

believed her talent was the

cap because

was the monsters, not the tamer

of control was required by the tamer to control the beasts, but even then,

an unlimited number of beasts regardless of their potential. Making monster

highly regarded. This was simply due to how difficult it was for them to tame a monster, as a lot of complicated steps were required. Moreover, the financial burden one would incur just

was raised. They fed

daily food consumption alone could sustain a

It was just inefficient.

this didn't