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.

Monolith. I

to the man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

Monica, the gray-suited male handed her the orb. "Once you're done with everything, channel your mana into the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though, the orb

least know this

as she put the orb

luck on your mission

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

—Vooom!

up you

you

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence descended in

grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up with his

preparations are ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

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

moving towards the

"We wait."

"Wait?"

eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained.

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

his back, Luther briefly glanced

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

but since he was tasked

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

mission given to him by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over

couldn't let them

have spotted 876. It seems

questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's

more he observed 876, the more

was someone smart, especially since he had managed to flawlessly

merely someone who relied too

around, he looked at his members

this over with, it's time to move out and

caught him. There were no escape routes that

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk emerged on my

think you've got

so, they were in for

nurse was closely monitoring me. Not just me, but

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

wrong. I

hand pretending to kill her was also

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

kill her,

fooled someone else,

"Should be this way."

right into a corridor, I lowered my head and

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

thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face

it was the effort that

it seem like I tried,

warning the others about my whereabouts

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

since the beginning was not

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

no way Luther wouldn't have found out about it due to the obvious

since they were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but not

from the

that I could change faces was part of my

guess my worries were

I noticed that my path was fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was because they didn't

that's exactly what I

hat to hide the smile that had emerged on my face,

thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to

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