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.

finally deal a heavy blow to the Monolith. I want you guys

to the man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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

least know this

replied as she

luck on

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

—Vooom!

up you

you two

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

the portal, and silence descended in the

closing, the grey-suited

ready, the rest is up

***

At the same time.

of a guard strolling around could

target seems to be moving towards the second level. What should we

"We wait."

"Wait?"

away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained.

of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the others about him

his back, Luther briefly glanced

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

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

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

Xavier, he knew that the

couldn't let

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

Luther's face turned into a

876, the more scornful

first, he thought he was someone smart, especially since he had managed to flawlessly

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

looked at his

with, it's time to move out

knew that they had caught him.

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk emerged on

now you think you've got

they were

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

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

weren't wrong. I really was

to kill her

she was pretending to check the

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

fooled someone else, but not

"Should be this way."

right into a corridor, I lowered my head and hastened my footsteps

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

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

was the

it seem like I tried, then everything was

about my whereabouts was

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 dumb,

did since the beginning

captain back in the forest, I knew that my ability to change

out about it due to the obvious difference

were distracted by the fake body in my

thinking about my escape from the lab to just throw

know that I could change faces was part

guess my worries were

that my path was fairly unobstructed. This could only mean one thing, they were monitoring my movements. The only reason why my

that's exactly what I

hide the smile that had emerged on my face, I

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

with my approach. Rather than waiting for an