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.

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

main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio hesitantly

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 masked man said in a bewitching

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 of his goals. There’s no problem about wasting money… As quite an experienced bounty hunter, Xio instinctively thought of a few

and

as he surveyed his surroundings and said, “The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of

melded into the shadows, disappearing into the corner

told me the main ingredients of

point did she clearly realize how much importance the

their 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

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

keep silent on this matter, to never tell the masked man

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

brown carriage drive past. Her eyes were instantly

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

immediately reached rock bottom.

bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of red wine and brought

her and

wine. After a full two minutes of silence, she said in a slightly hoarse voice, “On the way

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

replied to any question she received

a moment and then she said, “This Viscount seems to be the captain of the royal

parties and banquets from time to time. With her professional habits of collecting material as a writer, she would certainly volunteer to

that

to be my father’s deputy,”

Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets. However, she

up the glass of red wine and gulped it down, coughing a few times after she

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

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

for the royal family, nobles that are the closest to 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 William VI. He was the leader of the Household Guards Division and the

turned melancholic as she found it difficult to

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

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

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 improve myself,

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 support

me is the mysterious Tarot

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Tingen City, 2

head to the door and looked