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.

to fish out the

know the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio hesitantly

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

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

nodded and said, “I’ll take

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

melded into the shadows, disappearing into the

told me the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio was

how much importance the masked man’s

some special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff or Interrogator potion… With this in mind, Xio

to Sheriff, she had used a special ingredient she had

that their target? Xio instinctively decided to keep silent on this

street outside, ready to take a public carriage

eyes were instantly attracted by the coat of arms on

nothing special about it, but Xio stared at it in a daze as

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

mood, Fors poured two glasses of red wine

across her and pushed one

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any question she received

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

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

that she got

to be my father’s

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

and gulped it down, coughing a few

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

that?” Fors asked, half curious, half trying to soothe her friend’s

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,

she found it difficult to hide her

and

family members even died

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

recount, but Fors didn’t mind.

But she immediately smiled.

I will support

mysterious Tarot Club! she added in

…

in Tingen City, 2

the door and looked at Benson who had just taken off