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.

out the person we’re looking for, it’s not impossible to negotiate and let you

ingredients of the Interrogator

of a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth more than 600

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 his goals. There’s no problem about wasting money… As quite

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

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

retreated and melded into

really told me the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio was

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

can be used

one thing. When she advanced to Sheriff, she had used a special ingredient she

target? Xio instinctively decided to keep silent on

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

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

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

mood immediately reached rock bottom. It didn’t turn for the better, even when

Fors poured two glasses of red wine and brought them

She sat across her and pushed one

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

to any question she received

then she said, “This Viscount seems to be

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

that

used to be my father’s deputy,” Xio said with some

fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets. However,

gulped it down, coughing a

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

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

true earl would have, but it wasn’t as illustrious

turned melancholic as she found it

in a revolt, and he

of this, my family fell from grace, and many of my family members even died for

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

was vague about some of the things midway through her recount, but Fors didn’t mind. She sighed and said, “It’ll be very,

But she immediately smiled.

will

is the mysterious Tarot

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Tingen City, 2 Daffodil

the door and looked at Benson who had just taken off