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.

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 back safely...we

the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though,

at least know

as she put the orb

on

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

—Vooom!

you meat

can you two stop

him were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

the portal, and silence

was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual

ready, the rest is up to

***

At the same time.

where the image of a guard strolling

target seems to be moving towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're going to observe him for a little bit

a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask,

his back, Luther briefly glanced at

will naturally come. We don't know what he's planning, and we

was just him, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits, he couldn't be too

he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I

to him by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over

couldn't let

2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems like he has

Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is

observed 876, the more scornful

was someone smart, especially since he had

from the looks of things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that allowed him to

at his

with, it's time to move out and

they had caught him. There were no escape routes that he

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk emerged on my

you think you've got

they were in for a

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

not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for them to send someone

wrong. I really was hiding amongst

raising my hand pretending to kill her was also part of

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

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

else,

"Should be this way."

right into a corridor, I lowered my head and hastened my

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

all honesty, I wasn't 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,

about my whereabouts

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

that I did since the

captain back in the forest, I knew that my

wouldn't have found out about it

fake body in my hands, but not someone as experienced as

about my escape from the lab

that I could change faces

my worries

thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only

exactly what

had emerged on my face, I

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

Rather than waiting for an