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.

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

"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 should appear. Let me warn you though, the orb requires a lot of mana to activate, so don't go all out and preserve

least

she put the orb

good luck on your mission

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

—Vooom!

up you meat

you

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence

closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his

the preparations are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

front of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could be seen, Matthew

towards

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

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

his back, Luther briefly

patient, 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. We

876 already, but since he

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

to him by Xavier, he knew that

couldn't let

It seems like

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

observed 876, the more scornful he

thought he was someone smart, especially since he had

was merely someone

around, he looked at his members and

over with, it's time to move

that they had caught

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

away from the infirmary, a

now you think you've

were in for

the nurse was closely 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

I really

my hand pretending to kill her was also

that she was pretending to check the patient, and was actually

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

someone else, but

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head and

was doing at the moment, I knew that she had

burning the guard's face. Though I

was the

as I made it seem

the others about my whereabouts was

to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of the

since the beginning was not a

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

have found out about

others since they were distracted by the fake body in my

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

could change faces was part of

guess my

that my path was fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was because they didn't want to alert

exactly

smile that had emerged on my face, I continued to move

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

my approach. Rather than