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

since they knew where the location of the hidden task was, it was

way what's

"Ehm.."

down, the young girl avoided

a screen appeared in

: 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

at the shy young girl once again,

the strongest in the world, Kevin would without

fancy professions that were flashy and pleasing to the eye as the

begged to

the most fearsome out of all

with a certain level

level was a set limit that could never

that was unless you were Ren or Kevin who

was ranked D, then the best you could achieve throughout your

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

despair that

so bad that throughout his whole childhood he was bullied for it. While everyone around him showed incredible talent that made them

had low talents blamed themselves for his

and he was never saddened by his

that was until that fateful 'day'

that demons managed to infiltrate

no rescue came until dawn, five hours

sacrificed their lives in

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

on their faces, those were the last words his parents had said to him

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 how many

when he was in his most dire state, he would've never been able to survive, grow strong enough to rank first in the school ranking,

everything to the

he managed to completely change himself, his

Everything about him changed.

went from an E-ranked talent to an SSS-rank talent over the course of a few months due to some strange elixir

But, what determined talent?

measure of natural

this case, talent was assed in regards to the profession

talent caps, was something that could not be

able to access mana, strange status windows similar to

gained access to supernatural powers. Powers that enabled them to do things that they could've never

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

your natural

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

trained in sword arts, their comprehension would be nowhere near as fast as their spear arts comprehension which was amplified by

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

the reason why Kevin believed her talent was the best,

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

mattered was the monsters, not the

of control was required by the tamer to control

regardless of their potential. Making monster tamers some of

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

was

food consumption

It was just inefficient.

to Kevin, this didn't