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.

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 lose any of 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

least know

as she

luck on your

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

—Vooom!

up you

can you two

him were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence

that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his finger before

are ready, the rest is

***

At the same time.

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

be moving towards the second level. What should we

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

obviously not 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 about him and just take

his hands behind his back, Luther briefly glanced

and we also don't want to startle him too early. We should first trap him

already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the

he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I have to make sure you

by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over here

let them

for corridor 2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems like

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

observed 876, the more scornful

someone smart, especially since he had managed to flawlessly escape the

looks of things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an

he looked at his members

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

the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him.

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a smirk

think

were in

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

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

that they weren't wrong. I really was hiding

hand pretending to kill

that she was pretending to check the patient, and

kill her, she quickly

fooled someone else, but

"Should be this way."

I lowered my head

sure what the nurse was doing at the

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

was the

long as I made it seem like I

warning the others about my whereabouts was

faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly

since the beginning was not

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

no way Luther wouldn't have found out about it due to the obvious

were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but

escape from the lab to just throw it away due

change faces was part of

my worries

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

exactly

on my face, I continued to move forward with even

realized that being passive and continuously hiding

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