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.

you’re able to fish out the person we’re looking

don’t know the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio hesitantly

you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth more than 600 pounds. I think you’re fully aware of

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

nodded and said,

and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the

that, he slowly retreated and melded into the shadows,

me the main ingredients of

at that point did she clearly realize how much importance the masked man’s faction placed on

on some special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff or

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

instinctively decided to keep silent on

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

past. Her eyes were

single flower and two rings. There was nothing special about it, but Xio stared at it in a daze as though her gaze had

reached rock bottom. It didn’t turn

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

across her and

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

Xio replied to any question she received

for a moment and then she said, “This Viscount seems to be the

from noblemen who liked literature and participated in afternoon tea parties and banquets from time to time. With her professional habits of collecting material as a writer, she

a party that

be my father’s deputy,”

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

the glass of red wine and gulped it

family was once part of the

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

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 the trust of the former king, Might-wielder William VI. He was the leader of the Household Guards Division and the captain of the royal

tone gradually turned melancholic as she found it difficult

a revolt, and he was eventually executed and deprived of his

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

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

things midway through her recount, but Fors didn’t mind.

But she immediately smiled.

I will support

mysterious Tarot Club! she added

…

time in Tingen

the door and looked at Benson