"Insolence!!!"
"Outrageous!!!"
"Guards! Get this man out of here!"
Right on cue, the old fogeys in the court voiced out their opinions one after the other. All of them strongly condemned the content of the letter one after the other. None of them was willing to be outdone by the other. They were all trying to win the grace of their monarch and avoiding his wrath.
The young man who became the sacrificial one had already accepted his fate. He didn't even struggle a bit when the guards took him away. On the bright side, he wasn't beheaded right there and then and there was still a chance for survival.
"I say, we send the Ereian Royal Army after those traitors. Have them punished for their insolence and bring back the soldiers to defend the capital against the invaders," one of the old men suggested.