The secret room in Harold Manor was also inside the master's study in the main building.
In fact, most nobles were quite happy to put their secret rooms in places like their studies.
For privacy!
Compared with the bedroom, which received visits from all sorts of ladies, the master's study was the most private place in a noble's manor. Aside from the manor's owner, even a personal steward needed permission to enter.
As for security?
The fact that these secret rooms existed openly in studies was proof enough of their security.
Newly risen nobles like the Lissop Family still relied on mechanical devices, while truly flourishing families like the Harold Family had long since made Mystic Art mechanisms standard.
Some places even used exclusive Mystic Arts.
Thus, even though many thieves knew where the most valuable things in a manor were kept, they did not dare try their luck lightly.
After all, they only had one life.
Of course, most importantly, they were all waiting for someone else to test the waters.
No one wanted their own death to pave the way for someone else's success.
Arthur understood this all too well.
His tomb-robbing friends had once changed their rule from having the father enter the tomb while the son stayed above to having the son enter while the father stayed above. That was because one father and son had discovered a fine old jade piece in a tomb, and the son had simply buried his own father inside, keeping the entire jade Buddha statue, a full two feet tall, for himself.
Even fathers and sons could be like that.
Let alone strangers.
As for the son who had taken the jade Buddha statue?
He had been shot dead beyond the border.
Had he really thought things would continue going