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

the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

gray-suited male 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

as she

good luck on

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

—Vooom!

up you meat

can you

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

and silence descended in the

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

ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

front of the large monitor where the image of a guard

moving towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're

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 the others

hands behind his back, Luther briefly glanced

and we

but since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits,

way, we've sealed the gates, so it wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for

by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over

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

876, the more

was someone smart, especially

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

looked at

over with, it's time to move

had caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk emerged on my

now you think

were in for a

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

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

I really

then, me raising my hand pretending to kill her was also part

a glance, I could tell that she was pretending to check the patient, and was actually looking at

kill her, she quickly

else, but not

"Should be this way."

lowered

nurse was doing at

really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the

was the

as I made it seem like

the others about my

change faces', I thought to myself,

since the

the forest, I knew that my ability to change

Luther wouldn't have found out about it due to

since they were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but not

six months thinking about my escape from the lab

could change faces was

guess my

only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was because they didn't want

that's exactly what

that had emerged on my face, I continued

my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the

Rather than waiting for an