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.

I want you

man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

the 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

least know

she put the orb

good luck on your mission

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

—Vooom!

up you meat

can you two stop

were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and

grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up

the preparations are ready, the

***

At the same time.

of a guard strolling around could be seen, Matthew turned his head and

be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I

back, Luther briefly

We don't know what he's planning, and we also don't want to

just him, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits, he couldn't

hurt to know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all,

him by Xavier, he knew that the recruits

let

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

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

more he observed 876, the more

someone smart, especially since he had

merely someone

he looked at

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

caught him. There were no escape routes that he

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk emerged on

now you think you've got

so, they were in for a

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

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

I really was hiding amongst the burn

raising my hand pretending to

tell that she was pretending to check the patient, and

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

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

lowered

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

was the effort that

made it seem like I tried, then everything was

about my whereabouts

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

did since the beginning was not a

in the forest, I knew

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

body in my

my escape from the lab

know that I could change faces was part of my

guess my

the facility, I noticed that my path was fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was because they didn't want to alert

that's exactly what

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

lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive

Rather