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.

mission is finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you

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

least know this

as she

luck on your

individual, the first one to move forward and step into the portal was Amon.

—Vooom!

you meat

can you

him were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence descended in the

closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses

are ready, the rest is up to

***

At the same time.

the image of a guard strolling around could be seen, Matthew turned his head and

seems to be moving towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly

turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the others

his hands behind his back,

Our turn will naturally come. We don't know what he's planning, and we also

and captured 876 already, but since he

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

let them

It seems like he has

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

observed 876, the more

smart, especially since he

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

he looked at his members

with, it's time to move out

that they had caught him. There were no escape routes that he could

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a smirk emerged on

you think you've got me,

were in

very beginning, I knew that the nurse was closely monitoring me. Not just me,

they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange

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

to kill her was

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

ready to kill her, she quickly

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head and hastened

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

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

the

long as I made it seem like

my whereabouts was what I

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

did since the beginning was not

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

found out about it

others since they were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but

my escape from the lab to just throw it away due

change faces was

guess my worries

This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements.

exactly what

the smile that had emerged on my face,

realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to cut

to be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an