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

the man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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

at least know this

as she put the

luck on your

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

—Vooom!

you

can you two

were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

and silence descended in the

closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his

the rest is up to

***

At the same time.

the image of a guard strolling around could be seen,

target seems to be moving towards

"We wait."

"Wait?"

calmly explained. "We're going to observe him for a little bit

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

his back,

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

since he was tasked with nurturing the new

so it wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning.

Xavier, he knew that the

couldn't let

2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems

Luther out of his thoughts was Matthew. Turning his head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is he planning on switching faces again? How

he observed 876, the more

was someone smart, especially since he

He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that allowed him to change

at his members and

it's time to move

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

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk emerged

think

were in for

closely monitoring me. Not just me, but everyone that was

chances of them 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

they weren't wrong. I

to

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

ready to kill her, she

else,

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head and hastened my

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

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

was the effort that

made it seem like I tried, then everything

the others about my

myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of the facility. 'They

did since the beginning

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

wouldn't have found out

the others since they were distracted by the fake body in

the lab to just throw

that I could change faces

guess my

thing, they were

exactly

my hat to hide the smile that had emerged on

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

to be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity,