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.

in, the goal of this mission is finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want

to the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

Monica, the gray-suited male handed her the orb. "Once you're done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal

least know

she put

good luck on your

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

—Vooom!

you

can you

were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

and silence descended in

closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his

ready, the

***

At the same time.

monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could be

to be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

Luther calmly explained.

of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I

back, Luther briefly

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

him, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was

what he's planning. Since I'm responsible

Xavier, he knew that the recruits over here

couldn't let them

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

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

876, the more scornful

was someone smart, especially since he

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

he looked at his

over with, it's time to move

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

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

away from the infirmary, a smirk emerged on

think you've

were

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

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

out that they weren't wrong. I really

my hand pretending to kill her

glance, I could tell that she was pretending to

I was ready to kill

else,

"Should be this way."

into a corridor, I lowered my head

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

burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages,

it was the effort that

made it seem like I

the others about my

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

did since the beginning was

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

wouldn't have found out about it due to the

were distracted by the fake body in

six months thinking about my escape from the lab to

that I could change faces

my worries

were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was because they didn't want to alert

exactly

hat to hide the smile that had emerged on my face, I continued to move forward with even

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

be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had to create