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.

goal of this mission is finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you guys to take this seriously, and please try to come back safely...we can't

man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though, the orb

least know

replied as she put

on your mission

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

—Vooom!

you meat

you two stop

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and

closing, the grey-suited individual lifted

are ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

the image of a guard strolling around could be

seems to be moving towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

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

behind his back,

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

it was just him, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the new

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

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

couldn't let them

have spotted 876. It seems like he has entered one of the guard's

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

he observed 876, the

someone smart, especially since he had managed to flawlessly escape

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

around, he looked at his members and

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

876 entering the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were no escape routes that he

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk emerged on my

think you've got me,

so, they were in for a

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

thinking that I had purposely burned myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been

out that they weren't wrong. I really was hiding amongst

hand pretending to kill her was

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

I was ready to kill her, she quickly acted

fooled someone else, but not

"Should be this way."

I lowered

the nurse was doing at the moment, I knew that she had

Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was pretty obvious that it

the

seem like I tried, then everything was

warning the others about my whereabouts was what

ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of

since the

pretended to be the unit captain back in the forest, I

found out about it due to the obvious difference in

others since they were distracted by the fake body

about my escape from the lab to

I could change faces was

guess my worries

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

that's exactly what I

the smile that had emerged on my face,

being passive and continuously hiding

approach. Rather than waiting for an