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.

when you go in, the goal of this mission is finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want

to the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me

least know

she put the

on your

Thanking the grey-suited individual, the first one 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 the

—Vooom!

you

can you

were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence descended in the

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

preparations are ready, the rest is

***

At the same time.

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

towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

turning his head,

his back,

naturally come. We don't know what he's planning, and we also don't want to startle him too

and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the

what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for

this was a mission given to him by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over

couldn't let

the cameras for corridor 2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems like he has entered one of the

his head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is he planning on switching faces again?

observed 876, the

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

merely someone who relied

he looked at

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

the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk emerged on

you think you've got me,

were in for

the nurse was closely monitoring me. Not just

it wouldn't have been strange for them to send someone to

wrong. I

hand pretending to kill her was also part of the

could tell that she was pretending to check the

saw that I was ready to kill

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

right into a corridor, I lowered my head and hastened my

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

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

was the

seem like I tried, then everything was

others about my whereabouts was what

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

that I did since the beginning was not a

back in the forest, I knew that my

found out about

distracted by the fake body in my hands, but not someone as experienced as

my escape from the lab to

I could change faces was part of

guess my worries

fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were

exactly

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

inside the lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask

be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than