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.

you 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

to the man's words,

"Will do, don't worry."

"Roger."

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

least know

replied as she put the

luck on your

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

—Vooom!

up you meat

can you

him were Monica

—Vooom! —Vooom!

portal, and silence descended

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

the preparations are ready, the rest

***

At the same time.

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

be moving towards the second level. What should we

"We wait."

"Wait?"

Without taking his eyes away from the monitor, Luther calmly explained. "We're going

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

behind his back, Luther

know what he's planning, and we also don't want to startle him too early.

but since he was tasked with nurturing the new

he's planning. Since I'm responsible for you all, I have to make

by Xavier, he knew that

couldn't let

corridor 2-Hall/4 have spotted 876. It seems like he has entered one of the guard's

head, he questioned. "Dormitory?" Luther's face turned into a scowl.

observed 876, the more scornful he

smart, especially

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

around, he looked at

time to move out and catch

caught him. There were no escape routes that

He was done for.

***

Smirk.

the infirmary, a

think you've got

were in for a

me. Not just me, but everyone that was

had purposely burned myself were low, they were not slim. Therefore, it wouldn't have

I really was

hand pretending to

was pretending to check the patient, and was actually looking at

ready to kill her, she quickly

else, but

"Should be this way."

lowered my head and hastened my

doing at the moment, I knew that she

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

the effort that

I made it seem like I tried,

about my whereabouts

I thought to myself, as I calmly walked through another

the beginning was not

back in the forest,

have found out about it due to

body in my hands, but not someone as

the

could change

guess my worries

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

that's exactly what

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

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