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.

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

man's

"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 requires a lot of mana to activate, so don't go all

least know this

replied as she

luck on

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

—Vooom!

up you meat

you two

him were

—Vooom! —Vooom!

entered the portal, and silence descended in

the grey-suited individual lifted his glasses up

ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

in front of the large monitor where the image of a guard strolling around

moving towards the second

"We wait."

"Wait?"

eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained.

obviously not satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't we alert the others about him and just take him

hands behind his back, Luther

know what he's planning, and we also don't want to startle

would've gone and captured 876 already, but since he

it wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I have to make sure you guys

given to him by Xavier, he knew that the

let them

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

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

more he observed 876, the more scornful

someone smart, especially since he had managed

things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too

he looked at his members and

with, it's time to move out and catch that little

dormitory, Luther knew that they had caught him. There were no

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

from the infirmary, a smirk emerged

think you've got

they were in for

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

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

they weren't wrong. I really was hiding

to kill her was

pretending to check the patient, and was actually looking

I was ready to kill

fooled someone else, but not

"Should be this way."

a corridor, I lowered my head and

nurse was doing at the moment, I knew that she had

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

the

made it seem like I

others about my

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

since the beginning

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

was no way Luther wouldn't have found out about

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

spent six months thinking about my escape from the lab to just throw it away due to

know that I could change faces was part

my

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

exactly what

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

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

Rather than waiting for an