The party enters the mansion. There is a vast inner area filled with elaborate statues and porcelain columns. The floors are covered with lush red carpeting. There are several doors on each side of this main corridor, as well as a stairway leading to the second story. This is where the party finds two more guards, apparently blocking passage upstairs.

Another battle ensues. The two guards fight the party and are soon joined by other guards who hear this ruckus. A lot of destruction goes on. Warriors are thrown by blows into columns, lots of things are destroyed. The battle rages on for minutes..

At about this point, we catch up with Wan's action upstairs. So, if you use your imagination, the party is downstairs fighting guards exactly as Wan is upstairs being ambushed. Wan manifests Stomp. The guards downstairs are alarmed by this and immediately rush upstairs. Their main responsibility is to protect what is upstairs, and if something is going wrong up there, that is their first priority. The party follows the guards upstairs and the two battles merge.

Wan manifests another power and walks up the wall to stand on the ceiling. While he is up there, he is shot from below by the half-elf. This knocks him unconscious and causes him to fall from the ceiling into the fray below. The party finished off the guards eventually and revived Wan. After a short discussion, they realized they had common goals, so they joined forces and planned their final assault on what appeared to be Decius's office..