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

man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

attention towards 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 requires

least know

replied as she put

on

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

—Vooom!

you

can you two stop

him were Monica and

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence descended

the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up

the

***

At the same time.

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

seems to be moving towards the second level. What

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why

back, Luther briefly glanced

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

just him, he would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he was tasked with nurturing the new recruits, he couldn't be

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

him by Xavier, he knew that the recruits over here

let

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

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

876, the

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

876. He was merely someone who relied too

he looked at his

with, it's time to move out

knew that they had caught him. There were no escape

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

away from the infirmary, a smirk emerged on my

think you've got

were in

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

Therefore, it wouldn't have been strange for

that they weren't wrong. I really was hiding

my hand pretending to kill

tell that she was pretending

was ready to kill her, she

fooled someone else, but

"Should be this way."

into a corridor, I lowered my

at

burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face with the bandages, it was pretty obvious that it wasn't

the

long as I made it seem like I

about my whereabouts

ability to change faces', I thought to myself, as I calmly

the

back in the forest, I knew that my ability to change faces would be

no way Luther wouldn't have found out about

since they were distracted by the fake body in my hands, but

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

that I could change faces was part

my worries were

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

that's exactly what

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

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

to be more aggressive with my approach. Rather