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.

of this mission is finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you guys to take this seriously, and please try to come back safely...we

to the man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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 mana

least know this

as she put the orb

good luck on

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

—Vooom!

up you

can you two stop

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

the portal, and silence

closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his finger

are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

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

towards the

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

brows knit, obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I

his back,

know what he's planning, and we also don't want to startle

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

know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I have to make sure you guys don't

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

let them

876. It seems like he has

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

observed 876,

he thought he was someone smart, especially since he had managed to

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

at his members and

time to move out and

had caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a smirk emerged on

think you've

so, they were in for

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

the 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

wrong. I really

to kill her was also part of

could tell that she was pretending to check the

saw that I was ready to kill her, she quickly acted as though everything was

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head and hastened

though I had already left and wasn't sure what the nurse was doing at the moment, I

burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was

the effort

it seem like I

the others about my whereabouts

to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of the facility.

since the beginning

in the forest, I knew that my ability to change

no way Luther wouldn't have found out about it

since they were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but not someone as experienced as

from the lab to just throw it away due

could change faces

guess my worries

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

that's exactly what I

emerged on my face, I continued to move forward with even

that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to cut it when infiltrating the

aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had to create