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.

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

man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

your mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though, the orb requires a lot of mana to activate, so don't go all

least

she put the

luck on

was Amon. "haha,

—Vooom!

you meat

you

him were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

and

grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his

the

***

At the same time.

of a guard strolling around

target seems to be moving towards the second level.

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

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

his hands behind his back, Luther

he's planning, and we also don't want to startle him too early. We

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

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

by Xavier, he knew that the recruits

let them

for corridor 2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems like he has

he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is he planning on

more he observed 876, the more scornful he

was someone smart, especially since he

things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that

at his members

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

caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a smirk emerged

think you've got

were

monitoring me. Not just me,

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

they weren't wrong. I really was hiding

pretending to kill her was also part

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

was ready to kill her, she quickly acted

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

I lowered my head and

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

burning the guard's face. Though I

the

I made it seem

others about my

that by now they know about my 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

captain back in the forest, I knew that

Luther wouldn't have found out about it due to the obvious difference in

they were distracted by the fake body in my

my escape from the lab to just throw it away due to

could change faces was part

my worries were

around the facility, I noticed that my path was fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The

that's exactly what

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

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

Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had