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.

to the Monolith. I want you guys to

to the man's

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

and a portal should

at least

she put the

good luck on your

Thanking the grey-suited individual, the first one to move forward and step into the portal was Amon. "haha, I'll be the first one to go in. I'll see ya'll on the other

—Vooom!

you meat

you two stop

were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

everyone entered the portal, and silence descended in

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

the rest

***

At the same time.

large monitor where the image of a

moving towards the second level. What should

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If

his back,

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

since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits, he

way, we've sealed the gates, so it wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I

Xavier, he knew that the recruits

let

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

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

876, the more scornful he

smart, especially since he

merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that

around, he looked at

over with, it's time to move out and

entering the dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were no escape routes that he could

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk

you think you've

were in for

me. Not just me, but everyone that was

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

out that they weren't wrong. I really was hiding amongst the

me raising my hand pretending to kill her was also

glance, I could tell that she was pretending

was ready to kill her,

someone else,

"Should be this way."

I lowered my

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

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

the effort that

it seem like I

warning the others about my whereabouts

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

did since the beginning was not a

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

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

they were distracted by the fake body in my

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

change faces

my worries

one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my path was unobstructed was

exactly

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

being passive and continuously hiding using the mask

approach. Rather than waiting for an opportunity, I