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.

out the person we’re looking for, it’s not impossible to negotiate and let

the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…”

if we don’t find the target, you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth more than

indeed… Who’s their target, and why are they willing to 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 one of his goals. There’s no problem about wasting money… As quite an

deliberation, she nodded and said, “I’ll take this

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

into

the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio was

realize how much importance

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

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

decided to keep silent on

baby cheeks and walked towards the street outside, ready to take a public

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

two rings. There was nothing special about it, but Xio stared at it in a

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

that her friend was in a bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of red wine and

across her and pushed one of

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

replied to any question she received

said, “This Viscount seems to be the captain of

she would receive invitations from noblemen who liked literature and participated in afternoon tea parties and banquets from

a party that she got to know Viscount

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

knew that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets. However, she didn’t know

wine and gulped it

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

asked, half curious, half trying to soothe her friend’s

a true earl 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

turned melancholic as she found it difficult to hide her

and he was eventually

and many of my family members even died for no reason.

believe that my father would engage 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 and came to Backlund, looking for a

was vague about some of the things midway through her recount, but Fors didn’t mind.

But she immediately smiled.

will

mysterious Tarot Club! she added in

…

in Tingen

problems, turned her head to the door and looked at Benson who had just taken off his half top