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.

if you’re able to fish out the

main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio hesitantly

the target, you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth

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

deliberation, she 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

saying that, he slowly retreated and melded into

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

realize how much importance the masked man’s

who their target is. It seems to be focused on some special ingredient that can be used to

she had used a special ingredient she had bought through Fors,

decided to keep silent on this

towards the street outside, ready to take a public carriage back to

past. Her eyes were instantly

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

immediately reached rock bottom. It didn’t turn for

mood, Fors poured two glasses of red

and

After a full two minutes of silence, she said in a slightly hoarse voice, “On the way back, I met someone I used to

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any

moment and then she said, “This Viscount

and banquets from time to time. With her professional habits of collecting material as a

at such a party that she got to

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

a fallen aristocratic

of red wine and gulped it down,

herself down, she said, “My family was once part of the aristocracy. In its heyday, it

palatine? What position is that?” Fors asked, half curious, half trying to soothe her

for the royal family, nobles that are the closest to 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, we still held

tone gradually turned melancholic as she found it difficult to hide her

participating in a revolt, and he was eventually

my family members even died

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

her recount, but

But she immediately smiled.

will

Tarot Club! she

…

in Tingen City, 2 Daffodil

problems, turned her head to the door and looked