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.

a high 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

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

also our advance payment. Even if we don’t find the target, you’ll have the main portion of a Sequence 7 potion

taking advantage of this mission to retrieve the Beyonder ingredients of the Arbiter pathway on the market should also

she nodded and said, “I’ll take

tone turned relaxed as he surveyed his surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the

saying that, he slowly retreated and melded into the shadows, disappearing into the corner

really told me the main ingredients of the

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

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

ingredient she had bought through

decided to keep silent on this matter, to never tell the

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

drive past. Her eyes were instantly

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

her gaze. Her mood immediately reached rock bottom.

her friend was in a bad mood, Fors poured two glasses

She sat across her and pushed one

a full two minutes of silence, she said in a

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any question she received

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

would receive invitations from noblemen who liked literature and participated in afternoon tea parties and banquets from time to time.

party that she got to know Viscount

my father’s deputy,” Xio said with

father?” Fors knew that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets. However,

glass of red wine and gulped it down, coughing

she said, “My family was once part of the aristocracy. In its heyday, it even served as an

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

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

melancholic as she found it

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

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

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,

vague about some of the things midway through her recount, but Fors didn’t mind. She

But she immediately smiled.

will

mysterious Tarot Club! she added in her

…

time in Tingen City, 2

who was doing math problems, turned her head to the door and