Onor Knight Commander chose his two colleagues, a pans-eared cat person, dressed as a ranger, a young man named Konsair Main, raised by human adoptive parents like Maya. The other is a human, Emil, a standard Nameless Paladin, who can move swiftly even in heavy knight armor. Upon seeing Malin for the first time, they immediately lowered their heads in admiration. With all three of them present, Malin began explaining the general information for their upcoming mission—specific details would be provided by Bixiu and Sostak No.3 after they arrive at New Hangzhou through the transmission channel. Malin briefly spoke about the origin of the mission, emphasizing humanity’s destructive abilities before the Great Destruction — especially focusing on a certain group that made a contract with an Evil God. Bixiu and the others had already discussed this contract and could basically rule out the Four Vendors, because if any of them were involved, Earth would have long become their recruitment planet, instead of letting Subspace connect so slowly over eight millennia. Even so, signing a contract with an Evil God was akin to a bolt from the blue for anyone aware, as possessing the contract meant the Evil God would have the soul of the signer, anchoring them, and as long as the souls weren’t claimed back, the Evil God would forever have the coordinates of this universe. "No wonder Your Highness is setting out right after returning," Onor thought Malin was ignoring family ties, embarking again to the mysterious lost continent: "But can we confirm the location of that contract?" In Onor’s eyes, the authenticity of the contract was beyond doubt, but he questioned its location — even the Diviners couldn’t calculate such a thing, so how did Malin and the others learn about it? "That requires professionals to explain. Come, everyone, let’s depart." Malin said, then opened a transmission channel. This time, accompanying Malin besides Onor was Maya — Maya insisted on joining Malin, despite his objections. Ultimately, considering she was a Legendary, Malin reluctantly agreed. Of course, Malin was prepared; if they encountered significant Chaos, he’d open a shallow layer of Subspace for refuge, and even if he couldn’t repel it, he’d at least get a head start to escape. The transmission channel led directly to the Sage Hall in New Hangzhou, where Sage Yu had long been preparing, and an elven strike team had already arrived through the transmission channel under Sostak No.3’s preparation. Of course, their arrival was fraught; since the transmission channel couldn’t form in one go, they had to jump eight times through shallow Subspace pathways. The leader was someone Malin knew—the Spirit Ambassador, who was urgently transferred from the Academy upon learning Malin was in charge. Malin shook hands with him and introduced Onor and his team to everyone. Onor and Emil were easy to explain, as they were humans, albeit with differing appearances. But Konsair was amazed upon seeing Sage Qian—he’d never imagined there would be his kind in the Eastern human world. Sage Qian was already accustomed to it, and as the speaker, he motioned for everyone to sit down and began explaining detailed information about the contract. Maya sat nearby, listening attentively, with Malin beside her, periodically explaining aspects of the contract, for example, why Maya was puzzled about how those Four Intelligent Lifeforms knew about the contract and the situation on the lost continent, and why they were prepared in advance. Of course, Malin would provide his Cat Girl with a special introduction—firstly, information about the contract was compiled in the late years by Xia Nantian who came to New Hangzhou. This information was known to New Hangzhou for a long time but hadn’t been completed before multiple destructions almost wiped out civilization. It was only decades ago that they reactivated the Intelligence Center to start organizing the massive amount of information. When they found the information, Bei Luo was baffled. He and Bixiu collaborated and ended up contacting the surviving intelligences AI in Westland. Apart from Jason on the Westland side, the remaining are either in severe autism or consider themselves hunters in a dark forest. After establishing contact with Jason, both sides decided to start searching the double sides of North America—the location was particular, as the Eastern Region chose Portsmouth because Xia Nantian’s mission took place there, close to the Old Capital in North America. During the years leading up to the Great Destruction, this area was part of the Old Capital Region. In other words, the East Coast of North America was once a prosperous area, referred to as the City of Sin, with no innocent neighborhood. This was why the elves found the site and confirmed all evidence from that time had been placed in the underground vault of the Earth Union Security Center in the Old Capital, housing a vacuum warehouse perfect for preserving any evidence. Therefore, Malin and the team’s mission was to find the evidence and verify the contract’s duplicate, seeing if it’d been copied from the original.