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

the main ingredients of the

you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence 7

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 experienced bounty hunter, Xio instinctively thought of

she nodded and said, “I’ll

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

slowly retreated and melded into the shadows, disappearing into the

of

point did she clearly realize how much importance the masked man’s faction

is. It seems to be focused on some special ingredient that can be used to directly

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

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

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

she saw a brown carriage drive past. Her eyes were instantly

special about it, but Xio

she withdraw her gaze. Her mood immediately reached rock bottom. It didn’t turn for the better, even when she returned to the shared rented

a bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of

her and pushed one of the glasses toward

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

Stratford,” Xio replied to any question she

then she said, “This Viscount

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

party that she got to know Viscount

father’s deputy,” Xio said with some

that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family

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

“My family was once part of the aristocracy. In

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

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

gradually turned melancholic as she found it difficult to

a revolt, and he was eventually executed and deprived

and many of my family members even died

than his belief in the Goddess! In order to… Anyway, I left my mother and my younger brother and

was vague about 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

mysterious Tarot Club! she added in

…

in Tingen City,

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