The Derano estate showed itself to Lyle and the others, the heavily fortified, imposing structure surrounded by high walls and heavily defended by armed guards, some of which were Titled Knights and were yet patrolling the walls. The thick stone walls were built to withstand sieges, there was only one entrance, a large steel gate at the very front that seemed to weigh multiple tons.
There was, however, another entrance, a smaller, more discreet one that the Derano family and their servants used whenever they had to go in or out of the estate without being noticed. Lintosh had found that out by interrogating one of the people who had attacked him and his group, a minor noble whose house, once a proud servant of the empire commanded great respect and power, but was now a shadow of its former self, had worked with the Derano family in order to gain benefits after destroying Lintosh's group.
