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.

be careful when you 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."

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

at least

replied as she put the orb

luck on your mission

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

—Vooom!

you meat

you two

were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

and silence descended

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

the preparations are ready, the

***

At the same time.

a guard strolling around could

moving towards the second level.

"We wait."

"Wait?"

taking his eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained.

turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we

hands behind his back, Luther briefly glanced

what he's planning, and we also don't

just him, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with

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

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

couldn't let

the 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

observed 876, the

was someone smart, especially since

had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on

around, he looked at his members

time to move out and catch that little

dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were no escape routes that he

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk

now you think

were in for a

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

the chances of them thinking that I had purposely burned myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have

I really was hiding

pretending to kill her was also part of the

that she was pretending to check the patient, and

kill her, she

someone else,

"Should be this way."

lowered my head

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

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

was the

it seem

others about my whereabouts

to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor

that I did since the beginning was not

I pretended to be the unit captain back in the forest, I knew that my ability to change

out about it

by the fake body in my hands, but not someone as experienced as

my escape from the

him know that I could change faces was part of my

my worries were

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

exactly what

hat to hide the smile that had emerged on my face, I continued to move forward with even

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

aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had to create