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.

do you believe that such a simple mission would have such a 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

I don’t know the main ingredients

don’t find the target, you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth more than 600

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

and said,

Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of a Flash-patterned Black Snake and

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

of the Interrogator potion…” Xio was

at that point did she clearly realize how much importance the masked man’s faction placed

seems to be focused on some special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a

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

that their target? Xio instinctively decided to keep silent on this matter, to never tell the masked

rubbed her fat baby cheeks and walked towards the street outside, ready to

Her eyes were instantly attracted by the

nothing special about it, but

was far away, did she withdraw her gaze. Her mood immediately reached rock bottom. It didn’t turn for the better, even when she returned to the

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

sat across her and

red wine. After a full two minutes of silence, she said in a slightly hoarse voice, “On the way back, I met

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

replied to any question she received

said, “This Viscount seems to

and banquets from time to time. With her professional

was at such a party that she got to know

used to be my father’s deputy,” Xio said with some

father?” Fors knew that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets.

gulped it down, coughing a few times

down, she said, “My family was once part of the aristocracy. In its heyday, it even served

Fors asked, half curious, half trying to soothe her

family, nobles that are the closest to the throne,” Xio said in recollection, her face jubilant. “From that moment forth, our family had the fief a true earl would have, but

melancholic as she found it difficult to

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

members even died for no reason. In order to live, we changed our surnames and

that my father would engage in 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 for a chance to improve myself, hoping to restore my family’s

her recount, but Fors

But she immediately smiled.

will

behind me is the mysterious Tarot Club!

…

in Tingen City, 2

math problems, turned her head to the door and looked at Benson who had just taken