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.

fish out the person we’re looking

I don’t know the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio

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 600 pounds. I think

Who’s their target, and why are 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. There’s no problem about

deliberation, she nodded and

surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of a

that, he slowly retreated and melded into

main ingredients of the Interrogator

clearly realize how much importance

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

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

keep silent on this matter, to never tell the masked man

baby cheeks and walked towards the street

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

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

Her mood immediately reached rock bottom. It didn’t turn for the better, even when she returned to the

Fors poured two glasses of red wine and brought them to

and pushed one of the

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

replied to any question she received

she said, “This Viscount seems to be the captain

from time to time. With her professional

such a party that she got

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

Fors knew that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets. However, she didn’t know

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

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

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

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. He was the leader of the Household Guards Division and the captain of the royal

tone gradually turned melancholic as she found it difficult to

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

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

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 glory and my father’s

about some of the things midway through her recount, but

But she immediately smiled.

I will

me is the mysterious Tarot

…

Tingen City,

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