A City, Hero Association Headquarters.
Disaster Response Department, Operations Room Three.
"Reporting, sir!
Several citizens have reported an unidentified humanoid light source in the sky over the outskirts of Z City. We haven't been able to confirm any other information yet..."
After receiving the report over the phone, Anna, dressed in a tight black suit uniform, immediately turned to look up at the stubbled middle-aged man seated in the command room.
"The outskirts of Z City... no other information confirmed?"
The stubbled man immediately frowned.
Over the past few years, monsters had been appearing more frequently throughout the country, and the number of emergency calls and reports had grown by the day.
All too often.
By the time the heroes dispatched by the Hero Association arrived, the disaster was already beyond stopping.
To address this problem, the Hero Association assigned heroes of different classes to patrol areas with different levels of danger.
Whenever the Hero Association's staff received an emergency call from a citizen, they would immediately use other information to make a preliminary assessment of the disaster level, then quickly locate a hero of a suitable class near the disaster site and send them to handle it.
As for the Hero Association's strongest, the S-Class Heroes.
They were stationed across the various cities, one to a city, to deter high-level elite monsters in the surrounding areas.
The outskirts of Z City.
The S-Class Hero Silver Fang, Bang, was responsible for that area's safety.
"Where exactly is it?"
The stubbled man asked in a low voice.
Anna worked at her keyboard-clack, clack, clack.
"Location confirmed. It's near Mr. Bang's dojo...
Our search shows that, within a five-kilometer radius, there are currently only the seventh-ranked C-Class Hero, Baicang, and the 388th-ranked, Saitama... and Mr. Bang."
Baicang again?
The stubbled man considered