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 words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

the gray-suited male handed her the orb. "Once you're 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

at least

replied as she

good luck on

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

—Vooom!

you

can you two

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

everyone entered the portal, and silence descended in the

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

preparations are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

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

be moving towards

"We wait."

"Wait?"

Without taking his eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're going to observe him for a little bit

obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he

hands behind his back, Luther

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

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

sealed 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

mission given to him by Xavier,

let

cameras for corridor 2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems like he

head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned

more he observed 876, the

smart, especially since he had

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

at

with, it's time to move out and catch that little

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

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk

now you think you've

they were in for

very beginning, I knew that the nurse was closely monitoring me. Not just me, but everyone that was present in

not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have

I really was

pretending to kill her was also part of the

I could tell that she was pretending

that I was ready to kill her, she quickly

else,

"Should be this way."

I lowered my head and

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

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

it was the effort

long as I made it seem like I tried, then everything was

the others about my whereabouts was

I thought to myself, as

that I did since the

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

have found out about it

others since they were distracted by the fake body

six months thinking about my escape from the lab

him know that I could change faces was

guess my

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

exactly what I

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

about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to cut it when

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