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

I don’t know the main ingredients of

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 more than 600 pounds. I think you’re fully

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

nodded and said, “I’ll

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

melded into the shadows,

told me the main ingredients of the Interrogator

realize how much

to be focused on some special ingredient that 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 Fors, one that

Xio instinctively decided to keep silent on this matter, to never tell the masked

towards the street outside, ready to

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

was nothing special about it, but Xio stared at

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

bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of

happened?” She sat across her and pushed one of the glasses toward

two minutes of silence, she said in a slightly hoarse voice, “On the

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

Xio replied to any question she received without

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

and participated in afternoon tea parties and banquets from time to time. With her professional habits of collecting material

such a party that she got to know Viscount

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

knew that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and

gulped it down,

part of the aristocracy. In its heyday,

Fors asked, half curious, half trying to soothe her

forth, our family had the fief a true earl would have, but it wasn’t as illustrious during the time of my

gradually turned melancholic as she found it

a revolt, and he was eventually executed and deprived of his aristocratic title and

family members even died for no reason. In order to live,

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,

about some of the things midway through her recount, but Fors didn’t mind. She sighed and said,

But she immediately smiled.

will

Tarot

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Tingen City,

and looked at Benson who had just taken off his