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 you guys to take this seriously, and

man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

handed her the orb. "Once you're done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear.

at least know this

replied as she put the

good luck on your mission

and step into the portal was Amon.

—Vooom!

up you meat

can you two stop

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

everyone entered the portal, and silence descended

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

ready, the rest is up to

***

At the same time.

image of a guard strolling

target seems to be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the

back, Luther briefly

know what he's planning, and we also

but since he was tasked with

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

given to him by Xavier, he knew

couldn't let them

spotted 876. It seems like he has

head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl.

more he observed 876, the more

thought he was someone smart, especially since

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

at his

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

knew that they had caught him. There were no escape

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk

you think you've

were in for a

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

not slim. Therefore, it

weren't wrong. I really was

pretending to kill

was pretending to check the patient, and was actually

that I was ready to kill her, she quickly

someone else, but

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head and hastened my

already left and wasn't sure what the nurse was doing at the moment, I knew that she had

Though I covered his face

it was the

it seem like I

others about my

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

I did since the beginning

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

have found out about it due to the obvious difference

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

not spent six months thinking about my escape from the lab to just throw it away due to a simple

I could change

my worries were

could only mean one thing, they were monitoring

that's exactly what

had emerged on my face,

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

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