It seems more a conflict between the almost the drone-like reflexes of the guards with their mixed physical-mystical defending (and the immobility that happens even when an attack gets by them) and whatever the King's orders exactly entail. Because notably, they haven't been attacking, even when they probably should have been inflicting some kind of damage.<br/><br/>Although the King's answer to that problem seems to be physically-magically grabbing his guard by the skulls and moving. That the guards aren't moving is less of an issue, but the pace is now more of a constant drag than a sporadic power walk.