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 person we’re looking for, it’s not impossible to negotiate and let you obtain the main

know the main ingredients of the Interrogator

also our advance payment. Even if we don’t find the target, you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth more than

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. There’s no problem about wasting money… As quite an experienced bounty hunter, Xio instinctively thought of

some deliberation, she nodded and said, “I’ll take

masked man’s tone turned relaxed as he surveyed his surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of a Flash-patterned Black Snake and

that, he slowly retreated and melded into the shadows, disappearing

the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio was momentarily

she clearly realize how much importance the masked man’s

can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff or Interrogator

remembered one thing. When she advanced to Sheriff, she had used a special ingredient she had bought through

Xio instinctively decided to keep silent on this matter, to

cheeks and walked towards the street outside, ready to take a

she saw a brown carriage drive past. Her eyes were instantly attracted by the coat of arms on the

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

reached rock bottom. It

a bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of red wine and brought

and pushed one of

After a full two minutes of silence, she said in

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

Xio replied to any question she received without

for a moment and then she said, “This Viscount seems to be the captain of the royal

a best-selling novel author, she would receive invitations from noblemen who liked literature and participated in afternoon tea parties and banquets from time to time. With her

such a party that she got to

father’s

father?” Fors knew that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic

picked up the glass of red wine and gulped it down, coughing

down, she said, “My family was once part of the aristocracy.

that?” Fors asked, half curious, half trying to

recollection, her face jubilant. “From that moment forth, our family had the fief a true earl would have, but it wasn’t as illustrious

tone gradually turned melancholic as she found it difficult to

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

grace, and many of my family members even died for no reason. In order to live,

so than his belief in the Goddess! In order to… Anyway, I left my

things midway through her recount, but Fors didn’t mind. She sighed and said, “It’ll be very, very

But she immediately smiled.

I will

me is the mysterious Tarot Club!

…

in Tingen

turned her head to the door and looked at