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 Monolith. I want you guys to take this

to the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let

least know this

replied as she

on your

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

—Vooom!

up you

you

were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

the portal, and

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

preparations are ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

in front of the large monitor where the image of a guard

to be moving towards

"We wait."

"Wait?"

away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're going to observe

Matthew's brows knit, obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head,

hands behind his back, Luther

We don't know what he's planning, and we also don't want to startle

and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits,

wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning. Since

him by Xavier, he knew that

let

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

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

more he observed 876, the

thought he was someone smart, especially since

someone who relied too

at his members

it's time to move out and catch that

knew that they had caught him. There were no escape

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

a smirk emerged on

you think you've

so, they were in

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

slim. Therefore, it

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

then, me raising my hand pretending to kill her

glance, I could tell that she was pretending to check the patient, and was actually looking at

that I was ready to kill

else,

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head and

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

really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was pretty

was the effort

seem like I tried, then

the others about my whereabouts was

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

I did since the beginning was not

pretended to be the unit captain back in the forest,

way Luther wouldn't have found out about it due to

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

not spent six months thinking about my escape from the

know that I could change faces

guess my

only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was

that's exactly what

had emerged on my face, I continued to move forward with even

the lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to cut

be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than