King Ambrose was sitting inside his palace. He had a grim look on his face, and he wasn't saying anything. Prince Derek, too, was very quiet when he was standing next to him. In front of them were ten officials that served the Kingdom of St. Ellis.
A knight rushed in the report, "Report! All members of the third Griffin knight squad were found dead! Their corpses have been recovered. All four of our head knight commanders were dead!"
A yell came out of King Ambrose. Nobody dared to respond to him. They just waited for him as he tried to calm himself to speak.
"Has our great empire been senile for too long? This is an orc invasion of an enormous scale! Yet, not only have we failed to notice them when they intrude into our territory, they've even managed to kill our griffin knights."