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.

in, the goal of this mission is finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you guys

to the man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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

at least know this

as she put the

good luck on your

grey-suited individual, the first one to move forward and step into the portal was Amon. "haha, I'll be the first one to go in. I'll see ya'll

—Vooom!

you

you

him were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence descended

portal that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses

preparations are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

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

target seems to be moving towards the second level. What should we

"We wait."

"Wait?"

from the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're going to observe him for a

bit of hesitation, turning his head,

behind his back,

patient, Matthew. 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 trap him

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

it wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning. Since

this was a mission given to him by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over here were

couldn't let them

have spotted 876. It seems like he has entered one

"Dormitory?" Luther's face

876, the

thought he was someone smart, especially since he had

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

around, he looked at his members and

let's get this over with, it's time to

876 entering the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were no

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a smirk

think you've

were

closely monitoring me. Not just me, but everyone

were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for them to send someone to monitor the patients in the likelihood that this

I really was

to kill her was

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

to kill her, she

fooled someone else, but

"Should be this way."

I lowered my head

what the nurse was doing at the moment, I knew that she had probably warned the

face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was pretty obvious that it

the effort

seem like

warning the others about my whereabouts was what I

faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through

that I did since the beginning was

the very moment I pretended to be the unit captain back in the forest,

out about it due

by the fake body in

six months thinking about my escape from the lab to just throw it away due to a simple

that I could change faces was part of my

guess my worries were

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 because they didn't want

that's exactly what

the smile that had emerged on my face, I continued to

thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being

needed to be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had to