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

On his way back to his residence, Yuan Long was approached by someone who whispered in his ear, "Commander Annihilation, Manuel used his flying ability and has gone somewhere unknown."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Long laughed and said, "Never mind him. We'll go and urge the execution of the order first thing tomorrow morning. If we fail to depart by the deadline, we'll report it to the review panel for a ruling."

Meanwhile, after a two-hour flight, Manuel finally arrived at Renault's territory. He hurriedly knocked on Renault's mansion, but Renault was already asleep, and even the servants were asleep. They were awakened by the urgent knocking. The servants asked impatiently through the door, "Who is it so late!"

"You bastard! Open the door now! I am Duke Manuel!" Manuel cursed angrily.

The servants, naturally aware of Manuel's name, immediately lost their sleepiness and hurriedly opened the door, saying with a forced smile, "Your Grace, I'm so sorry."

"Enough with the nonsense, where's Renault? Go and fetch him right now!" Manuel walked straight into the hall and sat down in the reception room.

After a while, Renault finally appeared, still sleepy-eyed. He looked quite displeased. He sat down with a yawn and scolded, "What are you doing here so late? You're disturbing my sleep."

"How can you still be sleeping! Did you receive the orders?"

Manuel's words puzzled Renault, who asked in confusion, "What order?"

Manuel then told Reno everything about Yuan Long's order and asked, "Do you think we should listen to the Council's order?"

Renault asked with concern, "You mean, the order says to draw troops from your directly controlled territories, and to draw a total of 400,000 troops from my and Xie Tongguang's territories?"

Manuel nodded, then asked his own question: "Do you mean we accept this order?"

Renault's eyes darted around, then he chuckled, "Just accept it. The royal army is almost wiped out. If we don't accept it now, wouldn't that be open rebellion? Otherwise, why would we send the people from the Annihilation Bureau to deliver this order?"

"What do you mean?"

“Brother, don’t you understand?” Renault laughed. “It’s a tradition that the Slaughter House doesn’t participate in military and political affairs, but don’t forget, it’s just a tradition. When the late king established the Slaughter House, he didn’t explicitly state that the Slaughter House couldn’t participate in military and political affairs. That girl Vera can’t control that old woman Lei Cixin.”

“But they’re taking two hundred thousand from me, which is almost my entire army,” Manuel said with a pained expression.

Renault didn't care about all that. Although he hadn't seen the letter from the Council of Deliberations in person, from Manuel's description, it seemed that the Council of Deliberations hadn't explicitly asked to draw troops from his and Xie Tongguang's direct territories. With an attitude of "it's none of my business, I'd love to see some drama," he advised, "Hey, brother, don't you know what time it is? Do you really want to see the Demon Kingdom destroyed? Then you'll become a sinner! Maybe the Extermination Bureau already knows that you came to see me tonight."

“This… alright.” Manuel thought for a moment. Indeed, as Renault said, this was truly irresistible. Over the years, the ten dukes had considered raising an army to overthrow Verra, but a few years ago they had witnessed firsthand the powerful intelligence capabilities of the Annihilation Bureau. Several marquises were publicly executed in the deliberation court, and even the dukes themselves were unaware of the marquises’ crimes.

After Manuel gave up, the troop deployment went exceptionally smoothly the next day. Because Renault had prior knowledge of the situation, his and Xie Tongguang's troops were already ready when Yuan Long and the others arrived. The two of them only symbolically contributed 20,000 troops, and the rest of the troops were drawn from the territories of the earls and marquises below.

On the morning of the fourth day, the 700,000-strong army had already assembled outside the royal city. Ana, the judge of the council, also arrived at the scene. The 700,000-strong army was divided into two parts, with 500,000 supporting the eastern front and the remaining 200,000 supporting the southern front. Just as the army was preparing to set off, the royal envoy and the extermination team arrived.

The appearance of the extermination team was within Ana's expectations, but the appearance of the royal envoy surprised him. He asked with a smile, "Is the royal envoy also preparing to go on the expedition?"

The royal envoy replied, "The Demon King is very concerned about the war at the front and has specially ordered me to accompany the army to report at any time. Who are these people?" He did not recognize any of the six members of the Annihilation Squad, so he asked.

"Oh, these are people from the Extinction Bureau. The Council of Deliberations specifically requested that they accompany the army to supervise the battle."

"Oh, I see." The royal envoy smiled, greeted the extermination team, and left, inwardly thinking, "This is bad; the Demon King's plan probably won't work..."

The reinforcements set off quickly and arrived at the City of Dry Bones in less than five days. There, Cai Ran had sent messengers to wait. They specifically ordered the reinforcements to complete their final rest before setting off, because Cai Ran planned to use this well-rested and fresh army to launch a major counter-offensive.

In the past few days, the allied forces have been slowed down by Cai Ran's feints, and have had no choice but to launch attacks on all sides of the feints. Although this has caused some losses to the Demon Kingdom, it has also further slowed down the allied forces' advance. Inside the allied forces' tent, Chu Angjie paced back and forth in a state of anxiety. At this moment, a soldier ran in from outside the tent and said, "The enemy's flags have appeared again near the left and right wings."

Chu Angjie angrily said, "Order all troops to ignore everything and advance straight ahead!"

"Commander-in-chief, but Commander Yi... he has already ordered a detachment to attack the enemy's flag."

With a loud "crack!", Chu Angjie finally couldn't hold back any longer. He smashed the teacup in his hand, then walked out of the tent to find Yi Zhiyong.

"After these past few days, hasn't Commander Yi figured it out yet? These are all enemy diversionary tactics, designed to stall us!" Chu Angjie shouted.

“My scouts report that flags are flying in the distance, clearly indicating a large army is being deployed. I cannot risk the lives of the kingdom’s soldiers!” Yi Zhiyong replied excitedly.

"If we continue to delay here, we will be put on the defensive again when the Demon Kingdom's reinforcements arrive. We may have to retreat to Luowen County and lose our current favorable situation!" Chu Angjie was indignant. He couldn't understand why the commander of the friendly forces was such an incompetent person.

As the two were arguing, William arrived at Yi Zhiyong's tent. As soon as he entered, he shouted, "If you keep stopping me from launching an attack, I'll go it alone!"

It turns out that in the past two days, William also thought that they should speed up the advance. However, it was not because he saw through Cai Ran's feint, but because he was going to have problems if he didn't fight soon. He just wanted to have a good fight. However, his idea was rejected by Chu Angjie and Yi Zhiyong. Yi Zhiyong thought it was too risky, while Chu Angjie did not want William to act rashly.

The next day, the allied forces continued their slow advance as usual. They had to stop and set up camp every three or four miles over the past few days, which was very time-consuming and exhausting. Just as the allied forces were setting up camp, a scout reported: "Large numbers of enemy flags have appeared on all sides."

It was the same old daily intelligence report again. Chu Angjie said impatiently, "Ignore it and let Commander Yi handle it." He was extremely frustrated. If it weren't for Yi Zhiyong's insistence on not agreeing, they would have already reached the gates of Yumo City by now, instead of camping in the wilderness every day.

But shortly after the scouts left, a deafening tremor came from afar, sounding like the hooves of a thousand horses pounding the ground, striking straight to the heart.