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.

is finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you guys to take this

to the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

gray-suited male 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 to activate, so don't go all out

at least

as she put

good luck on your mission

was

—Vooom!

you

you two

were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and silence descended

at the portal that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his finger before

the rest is

***

At the same time.

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 bit

see..." Matthew's brows knit, obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked.

behind his back,

planning, and we also don't want to startle him too early. We should first trap him before moving

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

the gates, so it wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning. Since I'm

given to him by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over here

let

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

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

he observed 876, the more scornful he

thought he was someone smart, especially since

876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that allowed him to

looked at his members and

get this over with, it's time

they had caught him.

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a

you think

they were in

me. Not just me, but everyone that was present in

myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have

I

raising my hand pretending to kill her

was pretending to check the

kill her, she

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head and

left and wasn't sure what the nurse was doing at the moment,

the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was pretty obvious that it

it was the effort

it seem like I tried, then

warning the others about my whereabouts was

that by 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 that dumb,

that I did since the beginning was not

captain back in the forest, I knew that my ability to change faces would

out about it

body

my escape from the lab to just throw

I could change faces was

guess my worries were

facility, I noticed that my path was fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring

that's exactly

had emerged on my face,

escape routes, I realized that being

my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had