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

to the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

the orb. "Once you're done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal

least know this

replied as she put

on your

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

—Vooom!

you meat

can you

him were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

and

at the portal that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his

the preparations are ready, the rest is up to

***

At the same time.

of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could be

towards the

"We wait."

"Wait?"

his eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly

head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the others about him and just

back, Luther briefly glanced

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

since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits, he couldn't

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

given to him by Xavier,

couldn't let

It seems like he has

head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is he

he observed 876, the more scornful he

smart, especially since he had

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

around, he looked at his

this over with, it's time

caught him. There were no escape routes

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a smirk

you think you've got me,

were in for

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 strange for them to send someone to monitor the patients in the likelihood that this

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

to kill her was also part of the

glance, I could tell that she was pretending to check

that I was ready to kill her, she quickly acted as though

else, but not

"Should be this way."

into a corridor, I lowered

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

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

the effort

I made it seem like I tried,

the others about my whereabouts was

that by now they know about my ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of

since the beginning was

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

wouldn't have found out about it due to

others since they were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but

about my escape from the lab to just

change faces was part of my

my

unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my

that's exactly what

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

being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to

approach. Rather than waiting for an