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.

be careful 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 please try to come back safely...we can't afford to lose

to the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

his attention towards Monica, the gray-suited male handed her the orb. "Once you're done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though, the orb requires

at least know

she put the orb

good luck on your

first one to move forward and step into the portal was Amon.

—Vooom!

up you

can you two stop

were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and silence descended in

the portal that was slowly closing, the grey-suited

preparations are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

where the image of a

target seems to be moving towards the second level.

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the others about him and just

his hands behind his back, Luther briefly glanced

and we also don't want to startle him too early.

and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked

so 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 over

let them

spotted 876. It seems like he has entered one of the

his head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned

more he observed 876, the more scornful he

especially since he had managed to flawlessly escape the

876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that allowed him to change

he looked at his

it's time to move

had caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a

think you've got

they were in for

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

slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for

I really was hiding amongst the burn

me raising my hand pretending to kill her was also part of the

could tell that she was pretending to check the

ready to kill her, she quickly acted

else, but

"Should be this way."

lowered my head and hastened my footsteps

sure what the nurse was doing at the moment, I knew that she had probably warned

Though I covered his face with the bandages,

was the effort that

I made it seem like I tried, then everything was

others about my whereabouts was what

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

did since the beginning

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

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

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

months thinking about my escape from the lab to just throw it away due to a

change faces

my worries

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

exactly

smile that had emerged on

thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being

more aggressive with my approach. Rather