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.

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 man said with

the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…”

tell you later. This is also 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

find them? Well, if he were from MI9, taking advantage of this mission to retrieve the Beyonder ingredients of the Arbiter

deliberation, she nodded and

The masked man’s tone turned relaxed as he surveyed his surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of a Flash-patterned Black Snake

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

the main ingredients of the Interrogator

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

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

she had used a special ingredient she had bought through Fors, one that could be used

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

fat baby cheeks and walked towards the street

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

special about it, but

the carriage was far away, did she withdraw her gaze. Her mood immediately reached rock bottom. It

in a bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of

her and pushed one of the

a full two minutes of silence, she said in a slightly hoarse voice, “On the way back, I met someone I used to

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any question

said, “This Viscount seems

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 understand

that she got to know Viscount

he used to be my father’s

came from a fallen aristocratic family and had

gulped it down, coughing a

part of the aristocracy. In its

What position is that?” Fors asked, half

Xio said in recollection, her face jubilant. “From that moment forth, our family had the fief a true earl would have, but it

she found it

revolt, and he was eventually executed and deprived of his aristocratic title

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

to… Anyway, I left my mother and my younger brother and came to Backlund, looking for a chance to improve myself, hoping to restore my family’s glory and

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

But she immediately smiled.

will support

behind me is the mysterious Tarot Club! she added in her

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Tingen City, 2 Daffodil

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