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.

go in, the goal of 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

to the man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you

least know

she put

luck on

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

—Vooom!

up you

you

were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence descended

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

are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

monitor where the image of a guard strolling

seems to be moving towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

taking his eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly

After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked.

his back, Luther

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

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

what he's planning.

a mission given to him by Xavier, he

let

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

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

he observed 876, the more

first, he thought he was someone smart, especially since he had managed to flawlessly

He was merely someone who

looked at his members

it's time to move out

entering the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk emerged on

you think you've got me,

so, they were in for

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

weren't wrong. I really was hiding amongst

hand pretending to kill her was also part of the

she was pretending to check the patient, and was actually looking

I was ready to kill

someone else, but not

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered

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

the guard's face. Though I covered his face

was the

I made it seem

the others about my whereabouts was what I

faces', I thought to myself,

did since the beginning was not a

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

have found out about it due to

they were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but

from the lab to

could change faces was

guess my

were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was because they didn't want

exactly

emerged on my face,

thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask

Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had