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.

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

the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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

least

she

on your mission

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

—Vooom!

up you meat

can you two stop

him were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and

the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his finger

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 seen,

to be moving towards the second level.

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the others

his back, Luther briefly glanced

will naturally come. We don't know what he's planning, and we also don't want to startle him too early. We should first trap

it was just him, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he

he's planning.

by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over here were

couldn't let

corridor 2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems

"Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into

more he observed 876, the more

he was someone smart, especially since he had

had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that allowed

looked at his members

get this over with, it's time to move

had caught him. There were no escape routes

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

away from the infirmary, a smirk emerged on

you think you've got me,

so, they were

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

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

that they weren't wrong. I

pretending to kill

I could tell that she was pretending to check the patient, and was

ready to kill her,

else,

"Should be this way."

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

I had already left and wasn't sure what the nurse was doing at the moment, I knew that she had probably

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

was the effort that

long as I made it seem like I

others about my whereabouts

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

I did since the beginning

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

have found out about it due to the obvious difference

body in my hands, but not someone as experienced as

not spent six months thinking about my escape from the lab to just

him know that I could change faces

guess my worries were

thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was because they didn't

exactly

had emerged on my face,

my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using

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