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 the man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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 all out

at least know this

she put the orb

luck on your mission

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

—Vooom!

up you

you

him were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence

at the portal that was slowly closing, the grey-suited

preparations are ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

image of a guard strolling around could

to be moving towards the second level. What should we

"We wait."

"Wait?"

the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're going to observe

After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why

his back, Luther

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

and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits, he couldn't be

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

given to him by Xavier, he knew that the recruits

let

spotted 876. It seems like

he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's

more he observed 876,

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

things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too

looked at

let's get this over with, it's time to move out and

had caught

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a smirk emerged on my

think you've got me,

they were

the nurse was closely monitoring me. Not just me, but everyone that

it wouldn't have been strange for

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

raising my hand pretending to kill her was also part of

tell that she was pretending to check

to kill her, she quickly acted

someone else, but not

"Should be this way."

right into a corridor, I lowered my head and hastened

was doing at the moment, I

burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was pretty

it was the effort

it seem like I tried,

my whereabouts was what I

myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor

I did since the beginning was not a

the forest, I knew that my ability to change faces would be found

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

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

about my escape from the lab to just

him know that I could change faces was part of my

my worries

one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why

exactly what

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

stuck inside the lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to cut it when infiltrating

my approach. Rather than waiting