"Ezra Zephyr, right?" Wilson deeply looked at the prince, the expression in his eyes unreadable. "I will make sure Lopap treat you well in Alchemic Rune Peak."

The prince chuckled. "I am from the Alchemy faction, nothing to do with Lopap who is in the Imprint faction."

"What!" Govrin shouted. "What are you doing in the Alchemy faction?" 

The prince looked at the elf ranker and replied. "Because I am good in alchemy."

Govrin was bewildered, he admired Ezra Zephyr's talent in imprints, and he was sure that Ezra went through stupendous lessons to attain such perfection in imprints but hearing that he chose the Alchemy faction, he lost his cool. "Are you stupid, junior brother?"

The prince calmly looked at him but before he could speak, Wilson's voice resounded. "Alright, I'll remember everything, junior brother Ezra…"

With a swish of his sleeve, he turned around and walked away on the water.

Govrin also shot another glance at the prince, clearly quite surprised and regretful.

However, he did not say anything in the end. After cupping his fists together towards Ella Abella, he also left.

On the surface of the reservoir, Ezra Zephyr looked in the direction Wilson had left him. "I seem to have offended someone…"

***

Peace completely returned to the surface of the reservoir in the wake of Wilson and Govrin's departure. Any signs of the earlier battle were also washed away by the water.

The prince's eyes faintly flickered for a moment as he gazed at Wilson's back. Although the prince had not wanted things to become so sour between himself and the rankers so soon, things had not turned out as he planned.

Moreover, Wilson may have appeared friendly when they talked earlier, but there was a faint trace of superiority in his voice.

It was clear that Wilson Sallow looked down on Ezra Zephyr somewhat, and if not for the Duct Creation Energy crystal, the former would not have 'lowered' himself to speak to the latter

One was after all a ranker, while the other was a mere gold belt disciple. The disparity in their status was far too great.

However, the prince merely laughed it off, not feeling humiliated by this treatment. Because Ezra was aware of how powerful and privileged he was.

On the other hand, Govrin's attitude was the opposite, he started to believe that Ezra was superior in terms of runes.

To be treated as superior, one naturally needed to trample its opposers and Ezra was an expert in that.

There was already an agreement between him and 4th ranked Ella Abella, and would naturally not renegade on it for Wilson or he would only end up offending a beauty he had his eyes on for no good reason.

After seeing Ella's body when he unintentionally trespassed into her personal hot spring, Ezra was bewitched by her figure. He didn't ponder much at that time as a sudden feud rose between them but now, when he was cool as a cucumber, he understood why she was called number one beauty.

If he were to also go back on his word, he would likely be banished into the abyss in the heart of the number one beauty of the outer mountains. However, Ezra was not someone to sacrifice his goal just to get laid. His 1st objective was to grow stronger, and spreading his influence came 2nd while copulate was at the bottom of the list. 

Moreover, Ella Abella and Wilson Sallow were both rankers, so no matter how one looked at it, Ezra could only befriend one of them. After numerous calculations, Ezra found Ella to be more useful and easy to control.

While Ezra was contemplating in his heart, a fragrance suddenly drifted over from the side. He turned his head, to find that Ella Abella had arrived beside him, a strange look in her usually cold as an ice mountain eyes.

Ella nonchalantly asked, "You dare to reject even Wilson?"

The prince sighed. "If I don't offend him, I'll be offending you. Do I have a choice?"

Ella Abella's eyebrows raised slightly. "Are you saying that I'm scarier than Wilson in your eyes?"

Ezra stretched his back and chuckled. "I only feel that it will be much easier to improve my relationship with you than him. He doesn't seem to think much of me, so it likely won't mean much to him even if I did give him the Duct Creation Energy crystal."

Ella glanced at Ezra in astonishment, not expecting him to have such a clear view of the situation. It seems that she had still underestimated him somewhat.

"Since I've offended Wilson because of you, you'll have to support me in future." Said Ezra with a smile.

It was supposed to be a joke, but Ella Abella gave a slight nod in response and earnestly declared, "If he does cause trouble for you, feel free to find me at the outer mountains of Colleen Evil Peak."

Although she was still somewhat unable to get over the fact that Ezra barged in while she was in the hot spring, Ella agreed that the prince had offended Wilson because of her, and felt responsible for this matter.

"Mhm, good…" Ezra said within his heart, clearly not expecting such an earnest reply from Ella Abella. "She is more naive than I gave her credit for."

However, Ella's gaze quickly shifted towards Sköll and Hati and said, "But I feel that with them at your side, Wilson will be pretty powerless to do anything to you."

The prince smiled and threw the Duct Creation Energy crystal to Ella. "By the way, Sköll and Hati were not mentioned in the agreement, but we needed their help as well. How should we pay them?" The prince talked as if they were not his contracted martial animals but independent martial masters.

Ella hurriedly caught it, glaring at Ezra as she said, "According to our agreement, they two should get half of the crystal." As she spoke, she moved to cut it open.

However, the prince waved his hand to stop her as he said, "The amount of Duct Creation Energy I currently have is enough for me to achieve 7 paths of Ablution, I believe you should be in the same situation, right?"

Although Ella was aware that the prince had quite a number of Duct Creation Energy crystals, she could not help but be somewhat shocked when she heard he could reach 7 paths of Ablution. After all, she clearly understood just how difficult it was to gather these crystals. In the entire Spirit Devouring Mountain, only the top 10 rankers like her who owned territory in the energy reservoir would be able to achieve 7 paths of Ablution. And yet, a mere gold belt disciple had also achieved this.