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.

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

ingredients of the

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

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

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

“The Interrogator potion’s main ingredients are the horn of a Flash-patterned Black

melded into the shadows, disappearing into the corner of the

me the main ingredients of the Interrogator

much importance the masked man’s faction

some special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff or Interrogator potion… With this in mind,

a special ingredient she had bought through Fors, one that

keep silent on this matter, to never

baby cheeks and walked towards the street

saw a brown carriage drive past. Her eyes were

There was nothing special about it, but Xio stared at

when the carriage was far away, 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

mood, Fors poured two glasses of red wine

She sat across her and

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

any question she

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

best-selling novel author, she would receive invitations from noblemen who liked literature and participated in afternoon tea parties and banquets from

such a party that she

be my father’s deputy,”

knew that Xio came from a fallen aristocratic family and had some

of red wine and gulped it down, coughing

was once part of

half curious,

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

gradually turned melancholic as she found it difficult to

accused of participating in a revolt, and he was eventually

died for no reason. In order to live,

to… Anyway, I

the things midway through her recount, but Fors didn’t mind. She sighed and said,

But she immediately smiled.

I will support

the mysterious Tarot

…

in Tingen City,

doing math problems, turned her head to the door and looked at Benson