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.

a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you guys to take this seriously, and please try

man's words, everyone

"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

least know this

replied as she put the orb

good luck on your mission

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

—Vooom!

up you meat

you two stop

were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

the portal, and silence descended in the

grey-suited individual

are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

of a guard

be moving towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

Luther calmly explained. "We're

Matthew's 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 others about him and just

his back,

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

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

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

this was a mission given to him by Xavier, he

let them

spotted 876. It seems like he has entered one of the

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

he observed 876, the more

first, he thought he was someone smart, especially since he

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

looked at his members and

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

had caught him. There were no escape routes that

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a

think you've got me,

so, they were in for

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

purposely burned myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for them to send someone to monitor the

they weren't wrong. I

my hand pretending to kill

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

kill her,

fooled someone else, but

"Should be this way."

into a corridor, I lowered my head and hastened

sure what the nurse was doing at

Though I covered his face with

it was the effort

seem like

others about my whereabouts was what

myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of the facility. 'They wouldn't be

that I did since the

captain back in the forest, I knew that my ability to

out about it due to the obvious

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

escape from the lab to just

him know that I could change faces was part of my

guess my

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

exactly

that had emerged on my face, I continued to move forward

being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to cut it when infiltrating the

needed to be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity,