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.

simple mission would have such a high reward? Of course, if you’re able to fish out the person we’re looking for, it’s not impossible to

know the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio hesitantly

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 in a bewitching

the Beyonder ingredients of the Arbiter pathway on the

deliberation, she nodded and said, “I’ll take

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

retreated and melded into

really told me the main ingredients of

clearly realize how much importance the masked

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

advanced to Sheriff, she had used a special ingredient she had bought

Xio instinctively decided to keep silent on this

walked towards the street outside, ready to take a

drive past. Her eyes were instantly attracted by

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

the carriage was far away, did she withdraw her gaze. Her mood immediately reached rock bottom. It didn’t turn for the better, even when she

a bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of red wine and

across her and pushed one of the glasses toward

of silence, she said in a slightly hoarse voice, “On

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any question she received

then she said, “This

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

a party that she got to know Viscount

used to be my father’s deputy,”

from a fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets. However,

picked up the glass of red wine and gulped it down,

said, “My family was once part of the aristocracy.

asked, half curious, half trying to soothe her

“From that moment forth, our family had the fief a true earl would have, but it wasn’t as illustrious

melancholic as she found it difficult to hide her

in a revolt, and he was eventually executed and

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

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 for

about some of the things midway through her recount, but Fors

But she immediately smiled.

will

me is the mysterious Tarot Club! she added

…

time in Tingen City, 2

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