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

man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though, the orb requires a lot of mana to

at least know this

as she put the

on your

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

—Vooom!

you

you two

him were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

everyone entered the portal, and silence descended in the

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

the rest is up

***

At the same time.

the image of a guard strolling around

target seems to be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're

knit, obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask,

behind his back, Luther

come. We don't know what he's planning, and we also don't want to startle him too early. We should first trap him before moving

he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he

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

him by Xavier, he knew that

couldn't let them

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 a scowl. "Is he planning on switching faces again? How laughably

876, the

he was someone smart, especially since

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

looked at his members

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

entering the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

away from the infirmary, a smirk emerged

you think you've

were

I knew that the nurse was closely monitoring me.

not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for them to send someone to monitor the patients in the likelihood that this

I

to kill her was also part of

glance, I could tell that she was pretending

ready to kill her, she

else, but

"Should be this way."

into a corridor, I lowered my head

sure what the nurse was doing at the moment, I knew that she had probably warned

guard's face. Though I covered his face with

the effort

made it seem like I tried, then everything was

about my whereabouts

by now they know about my ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor

since the beginning was

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

found out about it due to the obvious difference

body in my hands, but not someone

about my escape from the lab to just

could change faces was part of my

my

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

exactly what I

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

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

more aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an