Cookie Sect
Alec split apart the group of them. They were growing a bit too large for them to be efficient moving around together, so he split apart Katherine, Jae, and Brian to form a team while Le Xuan, Qingxuan and Ye Sha formed a group with Klyse.
Katherine's group was going to be spreading false rumours about what happened in the forest here with the death soldiers, before moving on to see the general situation while Alec and his group were going to try and get as much information as possible.
Unfortunately, this realm did not contain the Cookie Sect. Otherwise, he would be able to obtain much more comprehensive information.
Alec wanted to find another information group or guild that dealt with information in this realm. First, they had to be trustworthy and not leak information back that he was looking at the Evans Sect.
However, it would probably be hard. The Evans' Sect reputation and widespread reach was something that would be hard to defend against.