Good lore and description work here. Could work on some clean up early for that showing over telling, but its a short introduction that simply needs to either way.

Thank you, your words are generous. I've been trying to get better at that and I believe I am starting to make improvements on catching the way I present things.
What part in particular do you think is telling too much?

The halls to... the value of it. Pretty much the first page. We have no frame narrator to carry this. Things are thrown out and are being described in a passive voice with no actual concreteness subject matter to absorb those descriptions.
Begging's serve to draw the audience: Place, setting, time, event with a dash to excitement or something to care about. Each sentence needs to connect and carry purpose in that weight.

"The halls were full of a confining tension that could be felt in the air with every step (your telling about the hall, but we don't have the hall or the people feeling). Not
one person believed within the palace that there was a chance, at least not a meaningful chance (Draw distance the audience. We need the hall and we need the people who are believing this ).
Hope was dwindling, and along with it, the spirit that held up the crown (We still don't have people or hall and now hope is dwindling but whose hope? We are being told this and have to infer of the people we do not have in the hall that does not exist). The Völkereich could
sense it’s own fall (whats a Volkereich [yes it is in the name, but audience does not know them as a ruling body]), betrayed but a fragile alliance. An enemy that planned their downfall for
thousands of years. Bitter hatred had fueled their desire to see the people of Kroschia fail (last two sentences just tell and carry to wait, just bad telling). " Pretty much your loading the world without the graphics.

"Servants packed important relics and artifacts, riches, and belongings to the royal family." This is called listing has its purpose, but description always trump it. Not something to make common habit of.

The goal is to show this falling kingdom: Action, agency, and description is how you show that. Don't tell us the emotions. It is shown through the characters actions and describing them. That entire first page is cutable because of this lacking. Its power is missing because it is told in this manner

Our first characters with agency and actual description is here: "Several aides"

Yet our story and full agency starts here: “My Liege, I should not question your orders. But is this wise?” Tomcat asked.

So that is the hard upslope learning swing of things.

Ah, I can understand that. It felt right to start the story in that sense as this is meant as a short story, however I understand what you are meaning by how there is a lacking perspective. Thank you very much.
I have plans on writing more short stories after this to experiment with a different style of my own to see how it flows and feels. Though, that may be a while.

HEy that is what short stories are good for experimenting.