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.

to fish out the person we’re looking for, it’s not impossible to negotiate and let you obtain the main ingredients,” the masked man

know the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio

a Sequence 7 potion formula, worth more than

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

she nodded and said, “I’ll

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

that, he slowly retreated and melded into the shadows,

the main ingredients of the Interrogator potion…” Xio

at that point did she clearly realize how much

some special ingredient that can be used to directly concoct a Sheriff or

ingredient she

silent on this matter, to never

walked towards the street outside,

Her eyes

There was nothing special about it, but Xio stared at it in a daze

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

friend was in a bad mood, Fors poured two glasses of

She sat across her and

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

“Who?” Fors asked, cooperatively.

to any question

then she said, “This Viscount seems to be the

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 to understand more

was at such a party that she got to

used to be my father’s deputy,”

a fallen aristocratic family and had some secrets. However, she didn’t

red wine and gulped it down, coughing a few times after she

part of the aristocracy. In

is that?” Fors asked, half

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

gradually turned melancholic as she

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

members even died for

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, hoping

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 support

me is the mysterious Tarot Club! she added in her

…

time in Tingen City,

was doing math problems, turned her head to the door and looked at Benson who had just taken off his half top