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.

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 can't afford

man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

male handed her the orb. "Once you're done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear.

at least know this

replied as she put

luck on your

and step into the portal was Amon. "haha, I'll be the first one to go in. I'll see ya'll on

—Vooom!

you meat

you

were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and silence descended in the

the portal that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted

the

***

At the same time.

front of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling around

moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

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

back, Luther briefly glanced

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

876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits, he couldn't be

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 don't

Xavier, he knew that the recruits over here

let them

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

he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is he planning on switching

observed 876, the more

he was someone smart, especially since he had managed

he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much

at his members and

time to move out and catch that

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

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a smirk emerged on

think you've got

were

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

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

wrong. I really was hiding

pretending to kill

I could tell that she was pretending to check the patient, and

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

else, but

"Should be this way."

I lowered my

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

guard's face. Though

the effort

I made it seem

warning the others about my whereabouts was what I

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

did since the beginning was

back in the forest,

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

body in my hands, but not

the lab to just throw it away due to a

him know that I could change faces

my worries were

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

that's exactly what I

to hide the smile that had emerged on my face, I continued to move

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

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