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.

reward? Of course, if you’re able to fish out the person we’re looking for, it’s not impossible to negotiate and let

know the main ingredients of

tell you later. This is 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

them? Well, if he were from MI9, taking advantage of this mission to retrieve the Beyonder ingredients of the Arbiter pathway on the

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

surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients

into the shadows,

of the Interrogator potion…” Xio

how much importance the masked

be used to directly concoct

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

target? Xio instinctively decided to keep silent on this matter,

her fat baby cheeks and walked towards the street

saw a brown carriage drive past. Her eyes were

special about it, but Xio

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

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

across her and pushed one of the

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

Xio replied to any question she

then she said, “This Viscount seems

from noblemen who liked literature and participated in afternoon tea parties and banquets from time to time. With her professional habits of collecting material as a writer, she would certainly volunteer

at such a party that she got to

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

came from a fallen aristocratic

and gulped it down, coughing a few times after

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

Fors asked, half curious, half trying

the spokesperson for the royal 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 it wasn’t as illustrious during the time of my father. However, we still held the trust of the former king, Might-wielder William VI.

as she found it difficult

and he was eventually executed and deprived of

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

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

but Fors didn’t mind. She sighed and said, “It’ll be very,

But she immediately smiled.

will

me is the mysterious Tarot Club! she added in

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Tingen City, 2

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