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.

careful when you go in, the goal of this mission is finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you guys to take this seriously,

the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn

at least know this

she

on your

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

—Vooom!

you meat

you

him were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and silence

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

the preparations are ready, the rest is

***

At the same time.

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

to be moving towards the second level. What should

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

brows knit, obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the others about him

hands behind his back,

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

876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing

what he's planning. Since I'm

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

couldn't let them

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

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

more he observed 876, the more scornful he

thought he was someone smart, especially since he had managed

had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact

looked at

get this over with, it's time to move out and

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

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

from the infirmary, a smirk emerged on my

now you think

so, they were in for

monitoring me. Not just me, but everyone that was

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 to monitor the patients in the likelihood

I really was hiding

my hand pretending to kill her was also part of

glance, I could tell that she was pretending to check the

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

someone else, but

"Should be this way."

into a corridor, I lowered my head and hastened my footsteps

wasn't sure what the nurse was doing at the

honesty, I wasn't really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I

was the

I made it seem

warning the others about my whereabouts was what I

my ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through

did since the beginning

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

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

were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but

escape from the lab to just throw it away due

could change faces was part

guess my

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

that's exactly

on my face, I continued to move forward with

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

Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had