122 A 1,000-Year-Old Deviant!

At the Port of Rostro, largest seaport of the Purple Dawn Continent, the Seafaring King received a pair of unexpected undead visitors: the demigod Belphegor, and the demon king Zagan. Zagan stood on Belphegor's shoulder, his clown mask rotating nonstop as he cackled and jungled with his knives. 

The Seafaring King, on the other end, couldn't stop shivering—and for good reasons. He was just a figurehead, a nominal ruler set up by the Seafaring Lords to give their naval alliance a symbol to rally around and a sense of cohesion. The man had no real power and was forced to live in a lavish estate of Rostro, free of charge—never allowed to leave the confines of his magnificent residence without an escort of slaves and skilled bodyguards. A tragedy, indeed!