The Author's POV

Calmly glancing at everyone in the room, the grey-suited male's eyes paused towards a certain girl.

An orange-haired one.

"Monica, I want you to listen carefully." Lifting his glasses with his finger index finger, he sternly said. "Your task is simple, you are to create as much chaos as possible. The location we've set is right outside the Monolith, you alongside the others are to divert the attention of the higher-ups away from the main building."

"Tsk, why do I get the most boring task."

Monica clicked her tongue.

"You're not the only one doing the boring task."

Behind her, one of the individuals spoke up causing Monica to turn around and glare in his direction.

"Shut up meat fodder."

"What did you call me?"

"I called you meat fodder, isn't that what you are?"

"Do you wanna fight?"

"Come on, I'm ready."

Bickering with Monica was a white-haired man with red eyes.

His skin was quite tanned and he had a sturdy build. An unfathomable aura exuded from his body, it was to the point that it even exceeded Monica's.

Ranked 5th in the Hero ranking, SS ranked hero, Amon Slabaugh, the unbreakable shield.

"Calm down both of you."

Stepping in and stopping the both of them, was a tall black-haired old man. A light gray goatee drooped down from the middle of his chin, and a white stripe appeared by the side of his hair.

Ranked 4th in the Hero ranking, SS ranked hero, Tasos Mallatos.

"Let's not do this now." Raising his hand to stop Amon from attacking Monica, before turning his attention towards her. "Monica, if you think about it, Amon and I are going to be the ones that will do the real heavy work. We're the ones that will actually be suffering the most, please be a little more respectful."

Both being SS ranked, it was them who were actually shouldering most of the troubles.

Monica was merely there to deal with the weaker S-ranked villains.

Raising her hands, Monica complained.

"That's why I'm saying it's boring. With you two next to me, how am I supposed to get a piece of the fun?"

Tasos smiled.

"Monica, if only it was as easy as you make it seem."

The mission they were currently being tasked to do was extremely dangerous.

Even he, an SS-ranked hero felt threatened by the mission. Less need to be said about Monica who was weaker than him.

"I know bu—"

"Alright, everyone please be quiet, I'm about to activate the artifact."

Cutting Monica off was the grey-suited male from before. Closing his eyes, and channeling his mana into the sphere, a yellow glow suddenly enveloped the room.

Shortly after, small threads of mana lingered in the air as a small portal formed before everyone's eyes.

—Vooom!

The moment the portal appeared, everyone stopped whatever they were doing and solemnly stared at the portal.

Heavy tension descended into the room.

"Haa..haa...done "

With heavy breaths, the grey-suited individual looked at all the people present in the room. Evening his breathing, he spoke.

to the Monolith. I want you guys to take this seriously, and please try to

the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though, the orb requires a lot of mana to activate, so don't go all out and preserve some

least know this

as she

luck on your

first one to move forward and step into the portal was Amon. "haha, I'll be the first

—Vooom!

you meat

you two stop

him were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence

the grey-suited individual lifted his

preparations are ready, the rest is up to

***

At the same time.

monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could be seen,

to be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

Luther calmly explained. "We're going to

with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert

his hands behind his back, Luther briefly glanced

Our turn will naturally come. We don't know what he's planning, and we also don't want to startle him too

he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the

gates, so it wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I have to make sure you guys don't

a mission given to him by Xavier, he knew that the

couldn't let

It seems like he has entered one of

Matthew. Turning his head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is he planning on switching faces again? How laughably

he observed 876, the more scornful he

he was someone smart, especially since he had managed

from the looks of things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact

around, he looked at his members and

time to move out and catch

dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were no escape routes that

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

from the infirmary, a smirk emerged on

now you think you've

so, they were in for

beginning, I knew that the nurse was closely monitoring me.

of them thinking that I had purposely burned myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for them to send someone to monitor the patients in the likelihood

that they weren't wrong. I really

to kill her was also

could tell that she was pretending to check the patient, and was actually

that I was ready to kill her, she quickly acted

someone else,

"Should be this way."

right into a corridor, I lowered my head and hastened my footsteps

doing at the moment, I knew that she had probably warned the others

honesty, I wasn't really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was

the effort

it seem like I tried,

others about my whereabouts was

about my ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly

the beginning was not

back in the forest, I knew that my ability to change faces

Luther wouldn't have found out about it due to the obvious

the fake body in my hands, but not someone as experienced as

escape from the lab to just throw it away

know that I could change

my worries

could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why

that's exactly

emerged on my

routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was

aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I