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.

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

to the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though, the orb requires

least

replied as she put the orb

luck on

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

—Vooom!

you

can you two stop

him were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

everyone entered the portal, and silence descended in the

was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his

ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could

be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the others about him and just take him

back, Luther

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

was just him, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits, 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

was a mission given to him by Xavier, he knew that

couldn't let

It seems like he

he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face

observed 876, the more

someone smart, especially since

someone who relied too much on an artifact that

looked at

let's get this over with, it's time to move out and catch that little

they had caught him.

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a

you think you've

were in

the nurse was closely monitoring me. Not

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

I really was hiding amongst

pretending to

was pretending to check the patient, and

kill her, she quickly acted as though everything

someone else, but not

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head and hastened

doing at the moment, I knew that she had

wasn't really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was pretty obvious that it wasn't

the effort that

I made it seem like I tried, then everything

my whereabouts was what

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

the beginning

I pretended to be the unit captain back in the forest, I knew that my ability to change faces

was no way Luther wouldn't have found out about it

others since they were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but not someone as experienced

not spent six months thinking about my escape from the lab to just throw it away due to a simple

I could change faces was part

my worries

I noticed that my path was fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason

that's 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

with my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I had to