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 person we’re looking for, it’s not impossible to negotiate and let you obtain the main ingredients,” the masked

the main ingredients of

find the target, you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence

if he were from MI9, taking advantage of this mission to retrieve the Beyonder ingredients of

some deliberation, she nodded and

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

and melded into the shadows, disappearing into

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

clearly realize how much importance the masked man’s faction placed

ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff or Interrogator potion… With this in mind,

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

target? Xio instinctively decided to keep silent on this matter, to never

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

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

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

immediately reached rock bottom.

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

and pushed one

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

Xio replied to any question she received

thought for a moment and then she said, “This

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

my father’s deputy,” Xio

Xio came from a fallen aristocratic

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

she said, “My family was once part of

asked, half

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

turned melancholic as she found it difficult to

participating in a revolt, and he was eventually executed and deprived of his aristocratic

this, my family fell from grace, and many of my family members even died for no reason. In order to live, we changed our surnames and

to the royal family, even more so than his belief in the Goddess! In order to… Anyway, I left my mother and my younger

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

But she immediately smiled.

I will support

Tarot Club! she

…

in Tingen City,

math problems, turned her head to the door and looked at