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.

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

the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

orb and a portal should appear. Let me

at least know

as she put the

on

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

—Vooom!

you

you

him were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

everyone entered the portal, and silence descended

grey-suited individual lifted his

are ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

the image of a guard strolling around could

target seems to be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

brows knit, 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

behind his back, Luther briefly glanced at

and we also don't want to startle him too early.

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

planning. Since I'm responsible for you all,

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

couldn't let

2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It

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

more he observed 876,

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

the looks of things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied

looked at his members and

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

they had caught

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk

think you've got me,

they were

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

them thinking that I had purposely burned myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for them

wrong. I really was hiding

my hand pretending to kill her

could tell that she was pretending to check the patient, and was actually

was ready to kill her, she quickly

fooled someone else, but

"Should be this way."

right into a corridor, I lowered my head

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

face. Though

was the effort

seem like I tried,

warning the others about my whereabouts was what I

ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of the facility. 'They wouldn't be that dumb,

did since the beginning was not a

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

Luther wouldn't have found out

fake body in my hands,

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

that I could change faces

my

they were monitoring

exactly what I

emerged on

the lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to

with my approach. Rather than waiting for an