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.

the goal 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

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

at least know

she put the

luck on your mission

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

—Vooom!

you

you two

him were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and

closing, the grey-suited

preparations are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could be

moving towards the second level.

"We wait."

"Wait?"

taking his eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're going

hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If

hands behind his back, Luther briefly glanced at

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

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

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

a mission given to him by Xavier, he knew that the

couldn't let

corridor 2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It

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

he observed 876, the more

someone smart, especially

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

at his

with, it's time to move

caught him. There were no escape routes that he

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk emerged on

you think you've

were

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

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

weren't wrong. I really was

me raising my hand pretending to kill her was also

pretending to check the patient,

that I was ready to kill her, she quickly acted

else, but

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered

doing at the moment, I

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 effort that

it seem like I tried, then everything

others about my whereabouts

my ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of the facility. 'They wouldn't

the

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

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

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

not spent six months thinking about my escape from the lab to just throw it away due to

change

guess my

unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was

exactly

my hat to hide the smile that had emerged on

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

with my approach. Rather than