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 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

man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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 a lot of

at least know

she put the

on your mission

portal was Amon. "haha, I'll be the first one to go in. I'll

—Vooom!

up you meat

you

were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and silence descended in

that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted

are ready, the rest is up to

***

At the same time.

a guard strolling

be moving towards the

"We wait."

"Wait?"

calmly explained. "We're going to observe him for a little bit

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

hands behind his back, Luther

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.

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

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

this was a mission given to him by Xavier, he knew

let them

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

his thoughts was Matthew. Turning his head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is

876, the more

he thought he was someone smart, especially since he

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

around, he looked at his members and

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

had caught him.

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a

you think

were in

the nurse was closely monitoring me. Not just

they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have

they weren't wrong. I really was hiding amongst the

to kill

pretending to check the patient,

ready to kill her, she quickly acted as

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

I lowered my head and

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

honesty, I wasn't really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was

was the

as I made it seem like I tried, then

others about my whereabouts was what

thought to myself, as

that I did since the beginning was not

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

wouldn't have found out about it due to

the fake body in my hands, but

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

know that I could change

guess my

were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was

exactly what

smile that had emerged on my face,

inside the lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding

with my approach. Rather than waiting for