A City, the lobby of the Hero Association Headquarters.
As soon as Josen and Bang arrived, a staff member came forward and guided them to the elevator leading to the conference room on an upper floor.
The Headquarters building's interior did not yet have any flashy, next-generation technological flair. For safety, however, every corridor and wall had been reinforced with high-strength alloy armor plating. Even a tank division would need to bombard it for at least an entire day to break through the building's outer defenses.
That was more than enough time for the S-Class Heroes to arrive from their respective cities. Security really had been pushed to the limit.
"Finally, some more arrivals."
"It's Mr. Super Police and Mr. Silver Fang."
An extra-long conference table equipped with 3D imaging equipment stood in the spacious conference room. The seats on either side were still empty; instead, two deep voices came from one side of the room.
The two turned toward the voices and saw two muscular men with starkly contrasting skin tones, one dark and one fair. They held absurdly heavy exercise equipment as though it were toys. These were the two muscleheads, Superalloy Darkshine and Tank-Top Master.
"Hello there."
After the four exchanged greetings for a while, Josen and Bang learned that Superalloy Darkshine was so obsessed with pumping iron that he hardly ever left the Hero Association Headquarters building.
To study Darkshine's body, the researchers at Headquarters had built a gravity chamber specifically for his workouts. All he had to do in return was cooperate with some experiments on his body now and then.
Such excellent conditions had kept Superalloy Darkshine living at Headquarters ever since he joined the Hero Association. Before becoming S-Class, his Hero Rank and placement had barely changed.
He had stayed firmly at the