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.

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

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

of a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth more than 600 pounds. I think you’re fully

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

and

surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients

into the shadows, disappearing into the corner of

really told me the main ingredients of

much importance the masked

target is. It seems to be focused on some special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff or Interrogator potion… With this in mind, Xio

Sheriff, she had used a special ingredient she had bought through Fors, one

keep silent on this matter, to

the street outside, ready to take a

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

special about it, but Xio stared

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

bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of

happened?” She sat across her and pushed one of

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

to any question she received without

she said, “This Viscount seems

from time to time. With her professional habits of collecting material as a writer, she would certainly volunteer to understand more

was at such a party that she

father’s deputy,” Xio said with

came from a fallen aristocratic family

glass of red wine and gulped

down, she said, “My family was once part of the aristocracy. In its

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

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

and he was eventually

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

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 a chance to

midway through her recount, but Fors didn’t

But she immediately smiled.

I will

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

…

time in Tingen City, 2 Daffodil

her head to the door and looked at Benson who had