To maximize profits, the best way is to find a Level 7 Special Monster with certain unique traits.

Fortunately, there was a whole bunch of Special Monsters that fit the criteria below.

Lu Chen approached a particularly burly Gnoll and hesitated, "How do I use this thing? Just show it to him?"

As he spoke, Lu Chen tried to raise the token, and at that moment, the Gnoll, which usually didn't attack Lu Chen proactively, lunged at him.

"Here it comes!" Lu Chen wasn't afraid and entered a 1V1 Forceful Subjugation phase with it.

Lu Chen was very familiar with this phase, as he had leveled up by dueling with opponents all along.

Without much effort, Lu Chen defeated the particularly burly Gnoll.

However, the opponent didn't die but was left with 1 HP.

"How about it, know who the boss is now? Want to join me?" Lu Chen said some useless lines, looking slightly nervous at the Gnoll.

After all, recruitment could fail, and if it did, Lu Chen would have fought for nothing.

[Congratulations, the particularly burly Gnoll is willing to accept your recruitment.]

"Got it!" Lu Chen was overjoyed, "But then again, Gnolls should be the lowest-level Wild Monsters, right? If this didn't work, that would be too unlucky."

With the first subordinate successfully recruited, Lu Chen continued to search for the next target.

A particularly strong Gnoll! Lu Chen unhesitatingly took out the token, and after Forceful Subjugation, succeeded again.

On the third attempt, Lu Chen failed once but then successfully subdued another particularly burly Gnoll.

Thus, Lu Chen completed the recruitment of three subordinates.

Bringing these three dim-witted fellows back to the hill, Lu Chen began to evolve and enhance them.

"Good thing I had the foresight to save some 1-Star Quality Shards."

Lu Chen upgraded all of these guys to full 1-Star Quality, evolving the particularly burly Gnoll to a "Strong, Agile, Particularly Burly" Gnoll.

Each one cost 40 1-Star Quality Evolution Points, totaling 120, which made Lu Chen feel a bit of heartache.

Logically, even if the system required the subordinates' quality to be lower than Lu Chen's, Lu Chen should still be able to enhance his quality, upgrading to two special prefixes, which would be the ideal state.

Unfortunately, Lu Chen was almost bankrupt now, so he had to make do.

To be safe, Lu Chen also equipped each of these three guys with a club.

"Damn, not only did I spend all my Reputation, but I also had to chip in 900 bucks... You three better not die, or it'll be a total loss!"

With everything ready, Lu Chen waited for himself and the Gnolls to recover full health and stamina, took a deep breath, "Alright, guys, get ready to work!"

A "Particularly Strong, Particularly Agile, Particularly Burly" Gnoll, along with another "Strong, Agile, Particularly Burly" Gnoll, and a "Particularly Strong, Agile, Burly" Gnoll, approached the Gnoll Commander Quinn Zakas.

Not to mention, Lu Chen's team had really long names.

Walking there, just looking at the IDs, it felt like there was at least a whole group of people there...

Standing in front of Zakas, Lu Chen realized this elite was truly tall.

All four of them were around 1.8 meters, but in front of that guy, it felt like looking up at Yao Ming.

"Brother, for you, I've gone bankrupt, so you better drop some good stuff!" Lu Chen muttered.

"Erzi, hit him for me!" Lu Chen whispered, giving his underling the nickname "Erzi."

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With a bang, Erzi didn't hesitate and swung a club at the Commander!

"Sanzi, Sizi, attack!" Lu Chen joined in himself!

The clubs of the three Gnolls rained down on Zakas's head.

A series of numbers floated up.

-18, -17, -23, -25!

At this point, after Zakas lost health, Lu Chen also saw this guy's HP—1190, terrifying!

The over two-meter-tall Zakas retaliated without hesitation, smashing a club on Erzi's head.

-55!

"Damn! What kind of monster attack is this!" Lu Chen was startled; Erzi was particularly burly, with long health and not outstanding strength, but at least had 8 points of physical defense.

That meant Zakas's physical attack was over 60!

Erzi's 740 HP went down a small chunk in one hit.

But Lu Chen wasn't panicked; they were four against one, and even if Zakas's attributes were abnormal, it seemed he still couldn't beat them.

Just as Lu Chen was feeling smug, Zakas swung a club, and a -104 (double critical) floated over Erzi's head.

Erzi's health instantly plummeted a large chunk.

"Damn, such high crit!" Lu Chen didn't dare to have any luck now and quickly focused.

"Erzi, stop attacking, Sanzi, take over!"

"Sanzi, stop attacking, Sizi, take over!"

"I'll draw aggro, you guys go all out!"

Although Lu Chen was a Wild Monster, ever since he had underlings, he finally got to enjoy being a commander.

After a round of gang beating, with a bang, Lu Chen landed a club dealing 24 damage, and the massive body of Quinn Zakas finally fell.

At this point, Lu Chen and the others all had yellow health; roughly calculating, this guy had dealt them 1200 damage...

This was a one against four!

"Too fierce!" Lu Chen shook his head, letting out a long breath.

[Killed Gnoll Commander Quinn Zakas (Level 8 Elite), captured 360 points of Ambient Spiritual Qi.]

[Received 3 Tier-3 Talent Shards, 3 3-Star Evolution Points.]

"Damn, it actually dropped 3 materials each." Lu Chen was a bit surprised; it seemed that having a name indeed made it more impressive, with shards dropping twice as much.

However, what Lu Chen was more concerned about now was the upcoming system notification.

Equipment! This was his motivation for going bankrupt.

[Ding...]

Lu Chen's heart tightened, here it comes!

[Received item "Leather Shoulder Guard" (Level 5 White)]

Huh? Shoulder Guard? And it's white?

[Received item "Worn Wolf Fur Vest" (Level 1 Gray)]

Vest? Also the first time this equipment appeared.

[Received item "Cragbreaker Great Club" (Level 5 Green)]

Seeing the last piece of equipment, this time, Lu Chen was a bit unsettled.

The system clearly showed this was a green-grade equipment!

The Nine Heavens Official Website had announced the first three levels of game equipment.

Gray is inferior, white is medium, and green is superior!

When white equipment appeared before, Lu Chen was a bit excited; you know, the only equipment on the entire server was the gray Gnoll Club, even with a small epic, it was still gray.

The Leather Shoulder Guard was not only new equipment but also the first white equipment on the entire server!

Then, immediately, a green-grade equipment appeared.

Lu Chen believed that even without looking at the attributes, just the color of this equipment was enough to cause a sensation on the entire server!

Lu Chen hurriedly checked the attributes of the Cragbreaker.

[Cragbreaker Great Club (Green Superior)]

["Quinn Zakas's weapon, extremely sturdy, said to easily smash rocks."]

[Level: 5]

[Attack: 9-15]

[Strength +6 Agility +8 Constitution +6]

"Damn!" Lu Chen suddenly felt a bit conflicted.

He was someone who played games for money, but upon seeing this equipment...

He couldn't bear to sell it!