The sudden invitation left the two sisters momentarily stunned.
They swallowed their food and exchanged a glance.
To natives, a lord's invitation was a choice.
The moment a formal invitation was issued, they received some sort of vague, inexplicable sense of it.
It was a call and summons from the Lord System.
If they chose to refuse, they would instantly forget that information.
That was also why Zong Shen firmly believed that lords in the Endless Continent were privileged bastards.
The arrival of the new generation of lords was itself a forced reshuffling.
With the support of all kinds of privileges and elimination through trials, a batch of powerful individuals could always be quickly selected.
The increasingly decayed natives of the continent must have failed to meet the Lord System's requirements in some regard.
In other words, the current natives were themselves descendants of the "eliminated."
Of course, since they were natives after all, the Lord System had not completely cut off their chances to contend for supremacy.
Lords needed privileges because they came from another world and started with nothing.
They needed to make good use of the resources left behind from the past. Those recruitment scrolls, for example, contained Warriors and power left behind from ancient, bygone eras.
The sisters hesitated for a moment. Perhaps they still could not understand the concepts of lords and subjects.
But they could understand that the status of a subject was certainly far better than that of a slave.
Moreover, the Karan sisters did not have many choices.
Zong Shen had bought them, and they were alone and without support in Lentax Great City.
Although this place was geographically close to the eastern part of the Avalon Kingdom, the east was still a vast region. Besides, the Zerikan Clan Kingdom was not