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.

finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you guys to take this seriously, and please try to come back safely...we can't afford to lose any of you

the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

orb. "Once you're done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal should

at least know this

as she put the

good luck on

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

—Vooom!

you

you

him were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and

was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his finger

the rest

***

At the same time.

in front of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could be

seems to be moving towards the

"We wait."

"Wait?"

Without taking his eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're

head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the others about him and

hands behind his back, Luther briefly

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

gone and captured 876 already, but since he was

planning. Since I'm responsible for

Xavier, he knew that

let them

2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems like

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

more he observed 876,

someone smart, especially since

things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied

at his members and

over with, it's time to

876 entering the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him.

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

away from the infirmary, a smirk emerged

think you've got

were in for

closely monitoring me. Not just me, but

thinking that I had purposely burned myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for them to send

weren't wrong. I really was hiding amongst the burn

my hand pretending to kill her was also part

she was pretending to check the patient,

to kill her,

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

I lowered my head and hastened

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

when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was

the

I made it seem like

about my

to myself, as I calmly walked through

that I did since the beginning was not

I pretended to be the unit captain back in the forest, I knew that my ability to change faces

out about it due

distracted by the fake body in my hands, but not someone as

the lab to just throw it away due to a simple

that I could change

guess my

I noticed that my path was fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was

that's exactly what I

had emerged on my face, I continued

I was stuck inside the lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously

to be more aggressive with my approach. Rather