Socially anxious people transmigrate to another world; living in seclusion is too difficult.

In the Duchy of Paisen, with Pact's consent, the Guardians placed the Generals under their jurisdiction, thus gaining the power to mobilize troops.

The officials then selected and redeployed the army, choosing a group of elites to reorganize and send to the four kingdoms of Tianyun Empire, Slivia Empire, Delin Kingdom, and Holy Beast Kingdom. As for the Western Demon Kingdom, it was difficult to send people there, so another method had to be found.

Within the country, the Ming officials have already dispatched elite forces to investigate.

Other countries, though they inquired, were all given the excuse that their royal treasures had been lost, leaving the other countries with no grounds for further questioning. Thus, the Principality of Paisen successfully established its military presence in various countries. In addition, the Principality of Paisen dispatched people to investigate places like the Spiritfall Forest and the Lone Dragon Mountains. However, these people couldn't set off openly; they traveled discreetly in disguise. These places were in a pristine state. In the eyes of the officials, the Spiritfall Forest, being relatively untouched, might contain elemental stones, while the Lone Dragon Mountains, as a battlefield remnant of the Dragon War, could very well contain elemental stones. Even if not, they might contain treasures left behind by ancient dragons; finding them would be a worthwhile gain.

Instead of prioritizing the search of the capital, the various troops began their investigations in small cities along the borders of different countries. Ming officials had two objectives in doing so: first, to carefully draw maps of the terrain of each country; and second, to avoid alerting other countries prematurely. They all knew that the true purpose of the military search would eventually be exposed, but they could delay it as long as possible, at least they could gather more information.

Meanwhile, the actions of the Insulators also began. After Shen Yao presided over the Guardian meeting, he first targeted the island and the Principality of Paisen. They believed that the missing part of the Immovable Stone was most likely to appear on the island, followed by the Principality of Paisen, which was passed through during the transport. Therefore, most of their attention was focused on the island. This time, the team going to the island was the Earthly Martial Arts Division. The Human Martial Arts Division could not be relied on in the short term. Moreover, the Immovable Stone was already in the hands of the Insulators, and the missing part could be gradually obtained. More importantly, they wanted to find other elemental stones.

The elite squads of the Earthly Martial Division set off for the outlying island and the Principality of Paisen to conduct a secret investigation. However, the outlying island had just experienced a war, and all the ports were not yet open to ships heading to the island. The Slivia Empire had surrounded all the coastlines of the outlying island. The members of the Earthly Martial Division sailed their own ships and could see the endless sentry posts along the coastline from afar. After sailing around the outlying island, they did not find a suitable place to land and had to temporarily abandon the outlying island and return to the Principality of Paisen to meet up with another team that was also heading to the Principality of Paisen.

However, after the two teams joined together, the number of people increased significantly, which was very disadvantageous for a secret investigation. After discussing it, both sides thought of the people who were being rebuilt and asked for the specific address before heading there.

The location chosen for the headquarters of the Human Extinction faction was indeed quite peculiar. Compared to the previous locations, which were either basements or sewers, this one was much more innovative. Perhaps when Zhou Tianwu gets older, he might also choose a basement-like place. The two Earth Extinction teams arrived at the address, and the first thing they saw was a sign with two large characters written on it: "Inn".

According to Zhou Tianwu, the shop sign might also give away information, so he resolutely refused to add any other words to the name of the inn. In addition, he decorated the inn inside and out in a respectable manner, referencing the style of other inns. All the service staff in the inn were temporarily filled by people from the Human Affairs Department, and they would be gradually replaced after the Military Affairs Department personnel were fully staffed.

The two captains of the Earthly Strike team entered the shop and knocked on the counter. One of the people behind the counter looked up and said, "The shop is full and we are not open today." Then he tried to send the two captains away.

The two men exchanged a glance. One of them took out a token and a secret letter from his pocket and slammed them on the table. The other went out to invite the other team members to enter the inn. The clerk at the counter was startled by the sound of the slamming. He stood up, about to get angry, but then he saw the token on the counter. He quickly grabbed an account book to cover it up, looked outside, and went to the door to help the other captain invite the team members in. After everyone had entered, he closed the inn door tightly.

After doing all this, he knelt down and bowed, saying, "I was unaware of your arrival, sir. Please forgive me."

"Ahem, let me ask you, who is in charge of this inn now?" a team leader cleared his throat and asked.

"Your Excellency, this inn has just been built and is currently under the temporary management of the Political Department. It will be handed over to the Military Department once all the personnel have been recruited."

"Prepare rooms for the brothers, then immediately hand over the token and secret letter to the current Chief of the Human Forces. He will then tell you what to do." After saying this, the two captains led their team members upstairs to choose rooms.

The man, carrying the token and the secret letter, immediately found the insulator who was temporarily in charge of the inn, and the insulator rushed to Zhou Tianwu's residence.

"Okay, I understand." After reading the secret letter, Zhou Tianwu's mind was filled with a mix of emotions, including anger, sadness, excitement, and depression. He was angry that the mission from headquarters was not assigned to Renjue, but to Dijue instead, especially since it was about the Immovable Stone. Renjue was the one who was in charge of this mission and had paid a great price to obtain the Immovable Stone. How could they just change the person like that?

Excitement stemmed from the success of transforming the headquarters into a hotel-like structure, which even its own staff couldn't distinguish from a regular hotel. Depression, however, was that after Takeshi's collapse, he had no hope of ever reappearing in the Chief Commander's sight, and it was uncertain how long it would take or how much effort it would require.

Despite his many thoughts, Zhou Tianwu still had to do what needed to be done. He said to the person who came, "Go back first, hand over the token and the secret letter to the other party, and then contact Director Locke and Director Jim. Tell them to meet at headquarters tonight, and also ask headquarters to prepare a few good dishes for tonight."

That evening, Zhou Tianwu, Locke, and Jim arrived at the inn and warmly welcomed the two teams from the Earthly Martial Division. Seeing that they were being treated to good food and wine, the two captains no longer had a tense expression and started chatting and laughing.

"Brothers, to be honest, we at Renjue have just rebuilt our headquarters and don't really have anything of value to offer. We'll have to make do tonight, please bear with us." Zhou Tianwu apologized to the two captains with a smile. The two captains, seeing this, dared not say anything more. They couldn't very well retaliate against someone who was smiling at them. They replied, "Not at all, Commander Zhou. We know the difficulties Renjue faces. This job is really difficult, which is why we've come to bother you. We hope you can help us out in the future."

"No problem, no problem. We don't distinguish between you and me when it comes to the organization's affairs. As long as it's something I can help with, I will definitely do my best. It's just that..." Zhou Tianwu paused, reached out and picked up his wine glass to take a sip.

"General Zhou, please speak freely."

"Hehe, but the order says to investigate in the Principality of Paisen, but in my opinion, it seems we should investigate on the outlying islands instead," Zhou Tianwu said with a puzzled look.

“Hey, who says otherwise? I’ve been circling the islands for the past few days, and the coastline is full of outposts, with warships constantly coming and going at sea. I really can’t get to the islands, so I had to come to the Principality of Paisen to meet up with my brothers and thoroughly investigate this principality first,” one of the captains complained.

"Wouldn't it be more convenient to involve the political department in the investigation of such important information? Perhaps the military department's investigation is not comprehensive enough?"

“Chief Zhou is right. My brother and I are only here to investigate the Duchy’s Adventurers’ Guild and the army to see if there are any suspicious individuals. As for whether the government should get involved, we’ll have to wait for orders. Perhaps the orders will be issued soon, allowing the government to investigate together.” The other captain, who seemed to have higher emotional intelligence, noticed that Zhou Tianwu was in a bad mood and tried to smooth things over for him.

"Haha, maybe so. Let's not talk about that anymore. Let's have a good drink tonight. Tomorrow I'll have someone show you the way. First, we'll go to the Adventurers' Guild, and then we'll get a closer look at the army."

[Publicly Available Information: Elemental Stones]

Through the All-Seeing Eye activated by the guardian organization of the Principality of Paisen, it was discovered that there are seven elemental stones on the Dragon Continent, which together maintain the stability of the continent. These seven elemental stones represent the seven elements of light, cloud, air, water, fire, wood, and earth.