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.

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

to the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

done with everything, channel your mana 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

least know

replied as she put the orb

good luck on

portal was Amon. "haha, I'll be the first one to go in. I'll see ya'll on

—Vooom!

you

you

were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

and silence

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

preparations are ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

of a guard

towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

his eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're going to observe him for a little bit

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

behind his back, Luther briefly

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

since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits, he

know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I have to make sure you

was a mission given to him by Xavier, he knew

couldn't let

2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems

out of his thoughts was Matthew. Turning his head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is

876, the more scornful

he was someone smart, especially since he had managed to

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

looked at his members

it's time to move out

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

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk emerged on my

you think

so, they were in

nurse was closely monitoring me. Not just me, but everyone that was present

it wouldn't have been strange for them to send someone to monitor the patients

wrong. I really was hiding amongst the burn

to kill

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

I was ready to kill her, she quickly acted

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my

left and wasn't sure what the nurse was doing at the moment, I knew that she had probably warned the others

I wasn't really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the

it was the effort

seem like I tried, then everything

others about my whereabouts was what

myself, as

I did since the beginning was not a

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

wouldn't have found out about

fake body in my hands, but not someone as experienced

from the lab to just throw it away due

that I could change faces was part

guess my worries were

that my path was fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements.

that's exactly what

on my face, I

the lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not

my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had