Welcome to the king's palace. The king asks if there's a mission for the army. He says he's always straight-to-the-point. He wants to wipe out the liberation army and kill their leader. He also wants to kill his brother, who's the leader of the rebel army. Before that, the king wants to address the defeat suffered by the army at the hands of Gaston's men. He doesn't want to condemn them for it, but he does want to appoint a second general to help him. He's not going to follow tradition, he says, and lose battles. But he'll do it anyway, because it's better to have two generals than one.