Lord of the Mysteries

Townshend Street, in between Empress Borough and West Borough.

Xio Derecha was standing in a dark, secluded alley. Even without looking up, she could see the countless magnificent palaces and tall Gothic towers in the distance.

It was the highest district in the whole of Backlund, and it was also where the Loen royal family resided.

It shared the same or even slightly higher status as the White Maple Palace of Intis and the Aurmir Palace of the Feysac Empire in the Southern and Northern Continent and in the entire world, but its name was neither romantic nor ancient.

It was called the Sodela Palace, and in ancient Feysac, it meant “balance.”

Xio looked away from the famous “Bell of Order” and directed her sight to the other side of the alley.

In the shadows where the street lamps didn’t shine, a figure slowly walked out.

The figure wore a golden mask that revealed the lower half of his face. He was none other than the mysterious person who had previously sold the Sheriff formula to Xio and had occasionally entrusted her with some tasks.

When Xio and Fors discussed in private, they both suspected that the person was from MI9.

“Any progress this week?” the man wearing the gold mask asked as per usual.

Xio shook her head.

“No, I don’t think anyone was keeping tabs on Capim before the incident.”

She paused for a moment, then she reluctantly asked, “Do you still want to continue investigating this matter?”

The masked man was silent for a moment.

“There’s no need, but if you hear anything related in the future, then contact me right away.

“Today, I’ll give you a new mission.”

“What mission?” Xio was completely in her bounty hunter state, ready to assess the risks.

The masked guy laughed.

“This is a very simple mission, and it’s one that you’ve been dreaming of doing.

“Seek to purchase the Sheriff and Interrogator main ingredients in all your circles, especially a special ingredient that can be directly concocted into a potion. If someone responds to it, we will pay for it.”

“The purchased ingredients will belong to me?” Xio blurted out a response.

This was her greatest concern.

high reward? Of course, if you’re able to fish out the

don’t know the main ingredients of the

Even if we don’t find the target, you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth more than 600 pounds. I think

they willing to pay such a high price to find them? Well, if he were from MI9, taking advantage of this mission to retrieve the Beyonder ingredients of the Arbiter pathway on the market should also be one of his goals.

and said,

his surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of a Flash-patterned Black

into the shadows, disappearing

ingredients of

she clearly realize how much importance the masked man’s faction placed

who their target is. It seems to be focused on some special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff or Interrogator potion… With this in mind, Xio

had used a special ingredient she had bought through Fors, one that could be used to concoct the

decided to keep silent on this matter, to

fat baby cheeks and walked towards the street outside, ready to take a public carriage back to Cherwood

saw a brown carriage drive past. Her eyes were instantly attracted

consisted of a single flower and two rings. There was nothing special about it, but Xio stared at it in a

carriage was far away, did she withdraw her gaze. Her mood immediately reached rock

poured two glasses

across her and

of silence, she said in

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any question she received without

a moment and then she said, “This

afternoon tea parties and banquets from time to time. With her professional

was at such a party that she got

he used to be my father’s deputy,” Xio

a fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets. However, she didn’t know

wine and gulped it down, coughing a

part of the aristocracy. In its heyday, it

Fors asked, half curious, half trying to soothe

that moment forth, our family had the fief a true earl would have, but it wasn’t as illustrious during the time of my father. However, we still held the trust of the former king, Might-wielder

she found it difficult to hide

years ago, he was accused of participating in a revolt, and he was eventually executed and deprived

many of my family members even died for no

mutiny. He was so loyal to the royal family, even more so than his belief in the Goddess! In order to… Anyway, I left my mother and my younger brother and came to Backlund, looking

but Fors

But she immediately smiled.

I will

me is the mysterious Tarot Club! she added in her

…

Tingen

door and looked at Benson who had