That's what annoying about them. Despite being useless they still ride in their high horses and didn't put into consideration the people that fought with their lives on the line while they let themselves get into a trap.
That makes perfect sense. The people with the most amount of magic are also born in high class rich societies therefore sadly they have high amounts of power and alone can do severe damage so them being on a high horse is okay it's a sad caste system really.
The black sheep knights are the only odd people as they comes from several different places and castes hence why there so hated
The current Emperor is not what he is, there's something real fishy about him. He sees Asta as a real danger to his position and knows that Asta can actually kill the Emperor even in his current state because his sword or his grimiore could do something unusual and he isn't using magic at all. Therefore the emperor is right now showing off to scare Asta to see how Asta will react.
The other thing is that the boss they refer too could be The Emperor himself how the hell did the Emperor knew they were coming here to that exact location it's like he was waiting for them, he was surprised Asta was taken by them.
For all we know The Emperor King is with these villainous guys and simply is playing with them and then'll he'll take everyone back to the real location along with Asta. The new girl is totally psychotic and she is going to live and a new love rival has joined the fray for Asta (it seems Asta is getting a nice harem). But this girl got a decent set of pages and so I feel she is the one who is going to help Asta tap the true power of his grimoire.