Doris's subtle reaction was noticed by him.

Zong Shen remained calm, as long as she agreed, that was all that mattered. If she didn't follow orders later on, he would have a reason to discipline her.

His face was concealed by the [Silver Knight's Battle Helmet], but his eyes were still sharp, seeming to understand everything thoroughly.

"Let's go, directly to the hall to deal with Suturing Mage Gu Lanqi!"

Zong Shen decided to first deal with Suturing Mage Gu Lanqi.

First, complete the task; even if there's a change later, Zong Shen won't fear it. If the opponent is another Lord, Zong Shen won't be intimidated either—not because he's arrogant, but considering his development progress and personal strength, there isn't a Lord in the region that he fears.

Of course, before dealing with Gu Lanqi, on the way, he planned to first gather all the scattered relic items and treasure boxes. It wouldn't be too late to open them after dealing with Gu Lanqi.

After finalizing the plan, Zong Shen waved his hand, and the team advanced towards the other end of the corridor, along the way Zong Shen obtained an Ancient Bronze Treasure Chest, a Black Iron Treasure Chest, a Rare Level Trident, an Elf Key Fragment, and three Night Huntress Recruitment Scrolls.

With this Elf Key Fragment, he had already gathered three pieces. By collecting nine key fragments, he could assemble a complete Goblin Earth Key and thereby be able to open Azshara's Treasure Vault.

Regarding these key fragments, Zong Shen had previously consulted a strategy guide. The remaining fragments are scattered throughout the ruins of Azshara's city, some buried underground, some scattered in various relics, and one piece was discovered and collected by Baron Bezos of Boss Bang in earlier years.

Currently, no other Lord has obtained key fragments. Zong Shen is collecting them with a zen-like attitude, letting nature take its course without any extra special effort.

After all, he already has three fragments in hand; no one else can complete the set. When the time comes, Zong Shen can just strategically consult the strategy guide to find them.

These Elf Key fragments alone are Orange Legendary Level. If combined into one, the complete Elf Key would at least be Golden Epic Level. With such a high-level key, it's hard to imagine what treasures are hidden in the vault—it must be the most precious treasure of all Azshara.

Due to the loss of the key, even the descendants of the Azshara Elf Nobles cannot open it—now it's left to the destined ones capable of gathering the key fragments to open.

After storing the key fragment well, Zong Shen flipped his hand and took out three Recruitment Scrolls. Such items that can instantly increase combat power should be used on the spot.

The Night Huntress has nearly vanished from today's outside world. Unless one can go to the Silver Moon Forest where the Dark Night Elf Race currently resides, the Recruitment Scrolls of the Night Elf are only likely to be found in such ancient ruins—though opening treasure chests also gives a certain possibility.

As for the Recruitment Scroll, it seems that all ancient native forces can create them; by signing a mysterious contract, they can be sealed into the Other Dimension, remaining in a standard state of slumber, with Level being fixed and suppressed at Level 10, the standard level. Furthermore, being sealed into the Other Dimension means achieving indirect immortality.

Additionally, the ancient natives discovered that sealing a dying warrior can save the warrior's life; only it takes at least a hundred years to activate after sealing.

All races can nearly all create Recruitment Scrolls—preserving the dying, difficult to rescue soldiers in this way, waiting to activate and give them new life.

Of course, some warriors voluntarily enter the Other Dimension under normal circumstances, waiting for recruitment, such as the Fire Mage Doris before; simply making mistakes and losing room for advancement, rebelliously choosing to seal herself in the Other Dimension, where at least indirect immortality is still immortality.

Perhaps she can open a new exciting chapter of life.

Furthermore, certain races and forces even mass-seal warriors, using them to preserve their lineage in the face of catastrophic dimension invasion disasters.

That's why a large number of Recruitment Scrolls have been passed down to today—the Endless Continent is vast, numerous in population, diverse in races, with all these reasons combined, leading to the warriors sealed into Other Dimension Recruitment Scrolls numbering a tremendously large figure.

Since it's a contract, there will be a corresponding cost; they must comply with certain rules, pledging allegiance to the activator, within the rules, with allegiance evaluated according to activator behavior. If the activator's behavior is excessively inappropriate, causing loyalty to fall below 50, the recruited warrior has the right to terminate the allegiance.

Thus, there are still many Recruitment Scrolls left in the ruins, though many have been activated or consumed over the millennia, the remaining amount is still not insignificant.

So behind this Recruitment Scroll thing, its essence is that there is a shadow of the Lord System involved.

And loyalty is not simply increased by giving benefits—the judgment behind it is still jointly formed by the system and the soldiers involved. As long as there is genuine care for the warriors in one's heart, appropriately gifting equipment and items can rapidly increase loyalty.

Even without gifting items, as long as the Lord harbors no malice, loyalty will gently increase over time.

These details are what Zong Shen learned through the Guide Module previously; generally, Lords know nothing of the origin of Recruitment Scrolls, merely brainlessly attributing Recruitment Scrolls to being spontaneously created by the Lord System.

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