Basement

Thud!

The floor, or rather this hidden elevator, hit the bottom of the floor below. Jake trembled a little, bu he quickly stabilized himself. 

Nolan held Jake's hand subconsciously, but the moment he could stand on his own, he left it. 

"Forgive me. These days, I am getting weaker and weaker. I need to take care of myself better. Or else, I won't be able to stand on my own two feet." Nolan smiled, but Jake only felt it a pity. 

"If someone like this dies, then Horace will lose their best trump card. With leadership like this, a guild like The Roman Empire will only grow." Jake thought to himself. 

"So then. Let us keep going. I have not showed much to you yet. This is the exciting stuff after all." Nolan grinned, his perfectly white teeth showing. 

"And you said that you couldn't afford a hidden door. I would have to sell everything that I own to try to get something like this." Jake shook his head.