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.

mission would have such a high 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

the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio

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

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 wasting money… As quite an experienced bounty hunter, Xio instinctively thought of a

nodded and said,

his surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of a Flash-patterned Black Snake and dust of a Lake

saying that, he slowly retreated and melded into the shadows, disappearing into the corner

main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio was momentarily

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

special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff or Interrogator potion… With

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

decided to keep silent on this matter, to never tell the

fat baby cheeks and walked towards the street

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

consisted of a single flower and two rings. There was nothing special about it, but Xio stared at it in a daze as

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

Fors poured two glasses of red wine

and

silence, she said in a slightly hoarse voice, “On the way back, I met someone I

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

Xio replied to any question

“This Viscount seems to be the captain of the

invitations from noblemen who liked literature 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

my father’s deputy,” Xio said with some

came from a fallen aristocratic family and had

red wine and gulped

she said, “My family was once part of the aristocracy. In

Fors asked, half curious, half trying to soothe

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

tone gradually turned melancholic as she found

and

my family members even died

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, hoping to restore my

things midway through her recount, but Fors

But she immediately smiled.

will

the mysterious Tarot Club! she added in

…

in Tingen City, 2 Daffodil

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