This is just ridiculous. This would have still barely passed if the Beast King had hit the road with all of his money and his most important soldiers, abandoning the Kirk Republic. But instead he decided to stick around and get executed. Why did he go through the trouble of scheming to get all the credit and rewards if he was planning to die shortly after? He knew firsthand his own mercenaries, nor the Kirk Republic army, can't stop the enemy, while thanks to his conspiracy the only group that could have possibly made a difference was practically driven out.
I wish the author had stopped to think for a minute about this whole mess he had written. Or maybe asked his eight years old niece to point out the obvious flaws.