User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 601 - VERGE ON VERMILLION/@comment-24384892-20141016155504/@comment-1268838-20141017000105

My point is that these particular Sternritter were touted by Yhwach himself as being powerful enough to handle the Royal Guard. I am not saying that His Majesty is always correct, but for them to be cut down so easily would mean that he vastly underestimated the Royal Guard, which I find very unlikely given all of this inside knowledge he apparently has.

As for the others, well, I doubt that some of them are actually dead.