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.

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

the man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

his attention towards Monica, 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

least know this

replied as she put

luck on your mission

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

—Vooom!

up you

you two

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

and

closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his finger

are ready, the rest is

***

At the same time.

in front of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could be seen, Matthew turned his

moving towards the second level. What should

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head,

back, Luther briefly glanced at

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

and captured 876 already, but since he

he's planning. Since I'm responsible for

Xavier, he knew

let

It seems like he has entered one of the

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

more he observed 876, the more scornful he

someone smart, especially since he had managed to

someone who relied too much on an

at

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

that they had caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

away from the infirmary, a smirk emerged on

now you think you've

they were in for

that the nurse was closely monitoring me. Not

of 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 to monitor the patients in

that they weren't wrong. I really was hiding amongst the

raising my hand pretending to kill her was also part

pretending to check the

was ready to kill

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

lowered my head and hastened my

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

really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered

was the

long as I made it seem like I tried, then everything was

about my whereabouts

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

the beginning was not

back in the forest, I knew that

way Luther wouldn't have found out about

the others since they were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but not someone as experienced as

my escape from the lab to just throw it away due to a simple

know that I could change faces was part

guess my worries

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

that's exactly what I

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

being passive and continuously hiding using

be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting