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.

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 said with

don’t know the main ingredients of the

also our advance payment. Even if we don’t find the target, you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence

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

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

he slowly retreated and melded into the shadows,

the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio was momentarily

how much

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

thing. When she advanced to Sheriff, she had used a special ingredient she had bought through Fors, one that could be

their target? Xio instinctively decided to keep silent

the street outside, ready to take

drive past. Her eyes were instantly attracted by the coat of arms on

was nothing special about it, but Xio stared at it in a daze as

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

poured two glasses of red wine and

and pushed one of the

said in a slightly

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any question

moment and then she said, “This

tea parties and banquets from time to time. With her professional habits of collecting material as a writer, she would certainly volunteer to understand more

at such a party that

father’s deputy,” Xio said with

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

glass of red wine and gulped it down, coughing

part of the aristocracy. In its

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

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

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

in a revolt, and he was eventually executed and deprived

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

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

the things midway through her recount, but Fors didn’t mind. She sighed and said, “It’ll be

But she immediately smiled.

I will support

me is the mysterious Tarot Club! she added in her

…

Tingen City,

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