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

way what's

"Ehm.."

the young girl avoided Kevin's eyes and

screen appeared in front

:

Age : 16

Picture : (Holographic image)

Hero

School Rank : 1078/2055

Potential : Unranked

Profession : Monster tamer

"..Ava? Monster tamer?"

information that was

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

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

fancy professions that were flashy and pleasing to the

Kevin begged to

fearsome out of all the professions was the

born with

was a set limit that could never

unless you were Ren or Kevin who were

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

how much extra time you spent training, you would

with the despair that stemmed

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 that anyone could

his parents who also had low

strong and he was never saddened

was until that

to infiltrate his hometown, and killed

major city, no rescue

in order to hide him

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

the most beautiful smile on their faces, those were the last words his parents had said to him before closing the trapdoor that led to the basement and disappearing from his

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

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

owed everything to the

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

Everything about him changed.

the course of a few

But, what determined talent?

was a measure

assed in regards to the

something that could

the second cataclysm and humans were able to access mana, strange status windows similar to

to supernatural

status window they would notice that, right

was your natural

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

trained in sword arts, their comprehension would be nowhere near

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

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

cap

was the monsters, not the

the tamer to control the beasts, but even then, what mattered

regardless of their potential.

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 people in the world to feel

S-rank pet was raised. They fed

daily food consumption alone

It was just inefficient.

to Kevin, this didn't matter