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

know the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…”

tell you later. 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,

retrieve the Beyonder ingredients of the Arbiter pathway

and said, “I’ll

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

into the shadows, disappearing into the corner of the

main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…”

at that point did she clearly realize how much importance the

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

she had used a special ingredient she had bought through Fors, one that could be used to concoct the

silent

rubbed her fat baby cheeks and walked towards the street

eyes were

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

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

a bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of red wine and brought them

and pushed one of

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any question she

moment and then she said, “This Viscount seems

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

at such a party that

to be my father’s deputy,” Xio said with some

father?” Fors knew that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets. However, she

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

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

is that?” Fors asked, half curious, half trying

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

gradually turned melancholic as she found it difficult to hide her

and he was eventually executed and deprived of his aristocratic title

family fell from grace, and many of my family members even died for

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, hoping to restore my family’s glory and my

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

But she immediately smiled.

I will

mysterious Tarot Club!

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Tingen City, 2 Daffodil

head to the door and looked at Benson who had just taken off his half