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 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

the main ingredients of

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

target, 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 the market should also be one

she nodded and

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

saying that, he slowly retreated and melded into the

the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio

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

on some special ingredient that can be

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

instinctively decided to keep silent on this matter, to

rubbed her fat baby cheeks and walked towards the street outside, ready to take a public carriage back to

carriage drive past. Her eyes were instantly attracted by the

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

did she withdraw her gaze. Her mood immediately reached rock bottom. It didn’t turn for the better, even when she returned to the shared rented

bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of red wine and

and

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

Xio replied to any question she received

thought for a moment and then she said, “This Viscount seems to be

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

was at such a party that she got to

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

Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and had some

wine and gulped it down,

of the

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

“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 William VI. He was

melancholic as she found it difficult

participating in a revolt, and he was eventually executed and deprived of

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

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

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

But she immediately smiled.

will support

me is the mysterious Tarot Club! she added

…

in Tingen

turned her head to the door and looked at Benson who had just taken off his half top