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.

be careful when you go 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 try to come back safely...we can't afford to

to the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

gray-suited male handed her the orb. "Once you're done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal

least

replied as she put the orb

luck on your

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

—Vooom!

up you meat

you two stop

him were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence descended

grey-suited individual lifted his

preparations are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

in front of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling around could be seen,

towards the second level. What should

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

Matthew's brows knit, obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why

his back, Luther briefly

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

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

to know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for

by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over here were

couldn't let them

It seems like he has entered one of

head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl. "Is he planning

876, the more scornful he

someone smart, especially since he had managed

merely someone who

he looked at

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

knew that they had caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk emerged on my

think

so, they were in for a

was closely monitoring me. Not just me, but everyone that was present in that specific

the chances of them thinking that I had purposely burned myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have

that they weren't wrong. I really was

raising my hand pretending to kill her was also part of

she was pretending to check the

was ready to kill her, she quickly acted as

else, but not

"Should be this way."

corridor, I lowered my head and hastened my footsteps

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

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 obvious that it

it was the effort that

I made it seem like I tried, then everything was

the others about my whereabouts

know about my ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of the facility. 'They wouldn't be that

since the

the very moment I pretended to be the unit captain back in the forest, I knew that my

found out

fake body in my hands, but not someone as experienced

thinking about my escape from the lab to just throw it away due to a

know that I could change faces was part

my

were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my

exactly

my hat to hide the smile that had emerged on my face, I continued to move forward with

moment I was stuck inside the lab thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask

Rather than waiting for an opportunity,