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.

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

to the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

the orb and a portal should appear. Let me warn you though, the orb requires a lot of mana to

least know

replied as she put

good luck on

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

—Vooom!

up you meat

can you two

him were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

and silence descended in

portal that was slowly closing, the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up

the preparations are ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

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

moving towards

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

see..." Matthew's brows knit, obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head,

his back, Luther briefly glanced at

and we also don't want to startle him too early. We should

captured 876 already, but since he was tasked

hurt to know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I have

Xavier, he knew that the recruits over here

let them

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

Luther out of his thoughts was Matthew. Turning his head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into

876, the more scornful

especially since he had managed to flawlessly

overestimated 876. He was merely someone who

around, he looked at

get this over with, it's time to move

dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

infirmary, a smirk

you think

so, they were in for a

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

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

weren't wrong. I really was hiding amongst the

my hand pretending to kill her was also part of

I could tell that she was pretending

she saw that I was ready to kill her, she quickly acted

fooled someone else, but

"Should be this way."

I lowered my head and

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

Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was pretty obvious that it

was the

it seem like I tried, then everything was

my whereabouts

thought to myself, as I calmly walked through another corridor of the

did since the beginning was not a

be the unit captain back in the forest, I

Luther wouldn't have found out about it due to the obvious difference

by the fake body in my

about my escape from the lab

could change

my worries were

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

that's exactly

on my face,

I realized that being passive and continuously hiding using the mask was not going to cut it when

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