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.

deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you guys to take this seriously, and please try to come

the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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

least know this

she

luck on your

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

—Vooom!

up you

can you

him were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

everyone entered the portal, and silence descended

that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted

the preparations are ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

the image of a guard strolling around could be seen,

seems to be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

calmly explained. "We're going to observe him for a

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

his hands behind his back, Luther briefly

naturally come. We don't know what he's planning, and we also don't want to startle him

already, but since he was tasked

we've sealed 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 were

let them

It seems

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

observed 876, the more

thought he was someone smart, especially since he had managed

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

looked at his members

let's get this over with, it's time to move out and catch that little

entering the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were no

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

away from the infirmary, a

now you think you've got

were

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

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

out that they weren't wrong. I really

hand pretending to kill her was also

tell that she was pretending to check the patient, and

that I was ready to kill her, she quickly

fooled someone else, but

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head

the nurse was doing at the moment, I knew

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

it was the

as I made it seem like I tried,

about my whereabouts was

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

the beginning was

be the unit captain back in the forest,

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

fake body in my hands,

six months thinking about my escape from the lab to just throw it away

I could change faces was

my worries

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

that's exactly what I

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

thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously

needed to be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an