This was a hard blow for Helena, as not even her clan could open all the 108 acupuncture points.

In the ten thousand races, only the dragons were able to do that, and because of that, they were slightly superior in combat skill!

Within the ten thousand races the dragons were the strongest, they were unquestionably arrogant. And Helena's mother was a sulfur dragon. Unfortunately because when two different races have babies, the race of the birthed child was decided by their father, because of this she was a.s.sessed as Qilin and not a dragon. Naturally, neither she nor her brother could open 108 acupuncture points like dragons.

[Note: Only applicable within the ten thousand races, if a dragon copulates with human his babies will be half dragon and half human.]

And now this boy wants to give her a technique to cultivate layers of it, she only needed to give him a few books of Alchemy and Arrays in return? Helena felt like she was exploiting the other side if she did that.

So she couldn't help but confirm: "Are you sure I only have to give you Alchemy and Arrays books for that technique?"

Upon hearing the question Alexander nodded, What Helena didn't know was that even if she didn't give him the books, in time Alexander would give her the cultivation technique. But at this point, they only had only just known each other for a few hours, and neither of them trusted the other.

So Alexander wanted to exchange it for something that interested him, so he would have something to read in the coming years while Helena increased her strength every day. So even if Helena leaves him tomorrow Alexander will still have the books, Helena doesn't care much about her life at the moment. If she wants to leave on her own, Alexander would gladly lead her to the door.

He also knew that the value of her books may be less than his technique but for Alexander, it was not. It must be known that in the Ancient Era, the three great worlds were considered the paradise of everything. Even if Helena gives him a few books of the low category, they would still be better than the books sold in the central area of the continent.

One must know that within the professions to advance was terribly expensive, If one makes calculations of all that has spent an alchemist of all the money that has spent since he was an apprentice to a master of 9 stars, would have so many zeros that would be would make the wealthiest merchant seen as a beggar.

It's true that they can repossess all their wealth by making pills, but that takes time, so under the seal of their guilds, they sold their research, something that Alexander personally liked.

In his previous life, he always bought research papers from the guild and loved to read them. This research usually focused on a specific ingredient or something similar. So the alchemists can make money while they focused on other research, and the lower-ranking alchemists benefited.

Something similar happened in the other professions. Alexander thought that the alchemists of the three great worlds must surpa.s.s the alchemists of this continent by far so their research must be even more fascinating.

So it was a win-win deal.

Seeing how tongue-tied Helena was, he said, "You should think about it and then tell me, now I have business to take care of."

Finally, they arrived into Frey's workplace and saw an old man sitting on a sofa, while a beautiful woman served him tea, these are Frey and Audrey.

Seeing a couple of children coming in, the old man greeted them with a smile and took a sip of tea. He already knew that Alexander did not like formalities so he became more informal.

Alexander nodded and said nothing, walked toward another sofa in front of Frey and took a seat and he introduced Helena: "Helena this is Mr. Frey, Mr. Frey this is Helena, from today she is my servant".

"Haha, prince, to have such beauty as a maid, what were you in your former life, a saint?" Frey said in a joking manner. And said: "Nice to meet you, Helena"

[Note: he wasn't implying as the cultivation, but a virtuous Samaritan or similar.]

Helena bowed slightly and replied, "me too, Mr. Frey."

At the end of the introduction, Alexander said to Helena, "Sit down."

Helena was a little confused at the moment since usually servants didn't sit next to their masters, but she did it anyway.

So Audrey brought a couple more drinks and sat down with the others. When Alexander saw this he asked: "What is my mother doing now?"

"Miss Anna was training and designing dresses for the business."

Only then, Alexander began the meeting: "As you know, already pa.s.sed a month and the James clan did not give an answer to us".

So everyone except for Helena who didn't know what was going on nodded.

"This can only mean one thing, they sided with them"

Hearing this made everyone in the room confused, but after a few moments of thought, Frey understood: "Third prince, are you saying that both the Snow Kingdom Royal family and the James clan view the Second prince favorably?"

Knowing that, it was an opportunity for others, apparently, they wanted to form relationships with the second prince. Because of this, they've ignored Alexander. It was no different than joining his faction.

Hearing that, Audrey couldn't help to ask, "But the present queen is Miss Anna's sister, how could that be?"

Alexander shook his head and said, "The situation is not as simple as you think."

This made everyone in the room turned serious and looked at him and he began to explain: "At first I always wondered why my mother had come here alone with her maid, turns out it was a bigger scheme".

This made everyone freeze, even Frey couldn't see through this. So he just remained silent listening like the rest.

"The Webber family has great ambition, so much so that the royal family had to act to stop them," Alexander look at Frey and said, "Mr. Frey, do you know how kingdoms and royal families were born?"

Hearing the question, Frey stroked his white beard as he thought but in the end, could only shake his head.

Thus Alexander began to explain: "A long time ago there were no such things as kingdoms, only powerful factions and they have their "Area of influence" and their faction governed that area but the patriarchs of those factions did not think that governing ants was something that a character as n.o.ble as they should do. So they took some disciples without limited potential and named them Kings and emperors, a hereditary t.i.tle. And in exchange for administering their lands, the factions took only a portion of the taxes, everything went well with that system, until over time the factions began to decline and the royal families rebelled, and the rest is history until the current system was formed".