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 for,

main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio hesitantly

our advance payment. Even if we don’t find the target, you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth more than 600 pounds. I think you’re fully aware of our generosity,” the masked man said

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

deliberation, she nodded and said, “I’ll

“The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of a Flash-patterned

slowly retreated and melded into the shadows, disappearing into

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

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

It seems to be focused on some special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff

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

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

street outside, ready to take a public

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

two rings. There was nothing 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

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

happened?” She sat across her and pushed one of the

red wine. After a full two minutes of silence, she said in a slightly hoarse voice, “On the way back, I

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

Stratford,” Xio replied to any

and then she said, “This Viscount seems to be the captain of the

a best-selling novel author, she would receive invitations 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 would certainly volunteer to

that she got

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

knew that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and had some

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

family was once part of the aristocracy.

Fors asked, half curious, half trying to soothe her

our family had the fief a true earl would have, but it wasn’t as illustrious during the time

gradually turned melancholic as she found it difficult to hide her

accused of participating in a revolt, and he

died

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

recount, but Fors didn’t mind. She

But she immediately smiled.

I will support

me is the mysterious Tarot Club! she added

…

in Tingen

problems, turned her head to the door and looked at Benson who had