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 this

the man's words,

"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

least

replied as she put

good luck on your

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 on the

—Vooom!

you

can you two

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

everyone entered the portal, and silence descended in the

slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses

the preparations are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling

target seems to be moving towards

"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

back, Luther briefly

and we

since he was tasked with

wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I have

given to him by Xavier, he knew

let them

spotted 876. It seems like he has entered one of the

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

more he observed 876,

he thought he was someone smart, especially since he

merely someone who relied too much

he looked at his members and

it's time to move out

the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a

you think you've got me,

so, they were

the nurse was closely monitoring me. Not

were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't

that they weren't wrong. I really was hiding amongst

pretending to kill her

tell that she was pretending to

kill her, she quickly acted

else, but

"Should be this way."

a corridor, I lowered my

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

thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I

the effort that

long as I made it seem like I

about my whereabouts was what

myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of the facility.

I did since the beginning was

the forest, I knew that my ability to change faces would be

was no way Luther wouldn't have found out about it due to the

they were distracted by the fake body

not spent six months thinking about my escape from the lab to just

could change faces was part of

guess my worries were

could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was because they didn't want to

exactly

had emerged on my face, I continued

was stuck inside the lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously

my approach. Rather