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 you obtain the main ingredients,” the masked man

main ingredients of the Interrogator

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 aware of our generosity,” the masked man said

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

deliberation, she nodded and

tone turned relaxed as he surveyed his surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of

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

the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…”

she clearly realize how much importance the masked man’s faction placed

special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct

one thing. When she advanced to Sheriff, she had used a special ingredient she

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

fat baby cheeks and walked towards the street outside, ready to take a public carriage back to Cherwood

past. Her eyes

rings. There was nothing special

her gaze. Her mood immediately reached rock bottom. It didn’t turn for the better,

poured two

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any question

she said, “This Viscount seems to

invitations from noblemen who liked literature and participated in afternoon tea parties and banquets from time to time. With her professional habits

a party that she got to know Viscount

my father’s deputy,” Xio said with some

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

of red wine and gulped it down, coughing a few times after she

family was once part of the aristocracy. In its heyday, it even

that?” Fors asked, half

“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

gradually turned melancholic as she found

and he was eventually executed and deprived of his aristocratic title and

my family members even died

so than his belief in the Goddess! In order to… Anyway, I left my mother and my younger

the things midway through her recount, but

But she immediately smiled.

I will support

mysterious Tarot Club! she

…

in Tingen City, 2 Daffodil

turned her head to the door and looked at Benson who had