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 afford to lose any of you

man's words, everyone

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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

she put

good luck on

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

—Vooom!

up you

you two stop

were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

everyone entered the portal, and

grey-suited individual lifted his glasses

ready, the

***

At the same time.

image of a guard strolling around could be seen, Matthew turned

be moving towards the second level.

"We wait."

"Wait?"

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

satisfied with the answer. After a bit of hesitation, turning his head, he asked. "If I may ask, why can't

back, Luther

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

since he was tasked with

it wouldn't hurt to know what he's planning.

given to him by Xavier, he knew

couldn't let

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

head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's

observed 876, the more scornful he

especially since he had managed to

things, he had overestimated 876. He was merely someone who relied too much on an artifact that allowed him to

around, he looked at

over with, it's time to move out

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

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a smirk emerged on my

think you've

they were in

monitoring me. Not just me, but everyone

of them 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 monitor the

wrong. I really was hiding amongst

to kill her

a glance, I could tell that she was pretending to check the patient,

to kill her, she quickly acted as though

else,

"Should be this way."

right into a corridor, I lowered my head and hastened

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

all honesty, I wasn't really that thorough when burning the guard's face. Though I covered his face

it was the effort

it seem like I tried,

others about my whereabouts was what I

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

did since the beginning was not a

I pretended to be the unit captain back in the forest, I knew that

found out about it due

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

my escape from the lab to just throw

know that I could change faces was part of

my

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

that's exactly what I

on my face, I continued to

thinking about my escape routes, I realized that being passive and continuously hiding

needed to be more aggressive with my approach. Rather than waiting