Old Jack's home stood at the very end of an alley in the Old Port District.
It was a three-story house with a courtyard. Though it now looked quite dilapidated, several decades ago, a house like this was beyond the reach of ordinary people and carried an exorbitant price.
Unfortunately, after the Finnis River changed course and flowed into the sea, the Old Port District rapidly declined, its former status replaced by the New Port District.
The value of the houses here naturally plummeted as well.
But no matter what, owning such a house in the inch-of-land, inch-of-gold royal capital was still something to be envied.
Yet after Ronan entered, he discovered that the interior could only be described as bare walls all around. A thief would weep upon entering, and even rats would scramble away head over heels.
There was not even a single decent piece of furniture!
Old Jack lit a kerosene lamp and said with an embarrassed chuckle, "To study alchemy, I sold everything in the house that could be sold."
Only this house remained.
In fact, if Ronan had not come to his rescue at the Copper Anchor Casino earlier, he probably would not have been able to keep this house either.
Ronan frowned as he swept his gaze over the empty living room and could not help asking, "You studied alchemy here?"
"Of course not."
Old Jack hung the kerosene lamp on the wall, then pulled a hidden mechanism.
Accompanied by a rumbling sound, a large section of flooring automatically lifted, revealing a secret passage leading underground.
Old Jack's alchemy laboratory was below!
Ronan followed him down the stairs, and the sight before him made his eyes light up.
The underground chamber was quite spacious, and it even had electric lights. It was filled with