Chapter 61: How Weird Could It Be?

NIKOLAI'S POV.

They did return at mid day just not with the kind of fresh ideas I had hoped for. They just came back the same way they left, so I guess they weren’t sleep deprived, they’re just old.

When I reached home I couldn’t sleep so I started to look through my father's office and I found a lot of documents, most of them were useless and the rest of them were useless as well.

My father was not very skilled when it came to documentation, I see that now but I did find his journal. It feels weird reading his personal writings and I don’t think I want to go through it either but something caught my eye. My father had properties stashed somewhere in this palace. I guess my secret place is not the only ‘secret place' in this palace.

His descriptions were everything but descriptive and it was not very useful but I still managed to find my way to his treasure cave. When I thought I was lost, I listened for hollows within the walls. The passage was through a portrait of himself on the