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.

blow to the Monolith. I want you guys to take

man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though, the

at least know

as she

good luck on your mission

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

—Vooom!

you

you two stop

were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and

that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual

ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

large monitor where the image of a guard

seems to be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

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

behind his back, Luther briefly glanced at

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, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with

way, we've 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 you guys

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

let them

876. It seems like he has entered

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

876, the more

smart, especially since he had managed to flawlessly

looks of things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that allowed him to change

looked at his

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

Luther knew that they had caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk

now you think

so, they were in for

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

chances of them thinking that I had purposely burned myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for them to send someone to monitor the patients in the likelihood

wrong. I really was hiding amongst the burn

hand pretending to kill

she was pretending to check the patient, and was actually

to kill her, she quickly acted as

someone else, but

"Should be this way."

lowered

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

face. Though I covered his

the effort that

as I made it seem like I tried, then

the others about my whereabouts was what

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

did since the

the forest,

way Luther wouldn't have found out about it due to the obvious

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

from the lab to just throw it away

know that I could change faces was part of my

my

around the facility, 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 because they didn't want

that's exactly what I

my hat to hide the smile that had emerged on my face,

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

my approach. Rather than