Raymond Sasso

## Overview

Raymond Sasso is one of the Demon Army's 12 Pillars, known as the Corpse Pillar. He is ranked 2nd among the 12 Pillars with the ability to manipulate corpses. He is a major antagonist of the story *My Wife is a Demon Queen*. He is the main antagonist of the Dwarf Kingdom Arc and posthumous antagonist of the Demon Realm Liberation Arc. He is tasked by Lillian with invading and conquering the Dwarf Tribe to secure sacrifices for the God Tribe. Raymond rose through the Pillar ranks thanks to the Corpse power granted to him by George Osa. He seeks to increase his power and rise to the top of the Demon Tribe, later revealed to be the original orchestrator of Isabella’s usurp in an effort to take over the Demon Realm.

## Personality

Having grown up in a life of slavery, Raymond is power hungry and hate filled, with utter disdain for the Osa royal family for his lifetime of torture.

Raymond is cautious and likes to orchestrate situations to his advantage as much as possible before taking action. When he makes his move, he likes to use his full power to crush his enemies. Raymond is very vain and egotistical, constantly referring himself as the Corpse Pillar in the third person.

Raymond seeks to rise to the top of the Pillar Generals and the Demon Tribe, and he has no problem with using his fellow demons as stepping stones in this endeavor. Though he was seemingly in a romantic relationship with Soso, another of the Demon Pillars, he held no real attachment towards her and only saw her as a tool to further his goals. He shows annoyance when someone doubts his capabilities, shouting down fellow lower ranked Pillars when they comment on Darkulo's absence.

## Appearance

Raymond is a tall, muscular demon, with dark brown skin. He has green eyes with black sclera. He wears a Nemes Headdress, golden bracelets on his wrists, big golden piercings on his shoulder from his time as a chariot puller, and a white Shendyt kilt from the waist to the toes.

## Story

### Before The Story

Raymond was born into slavery, forced to pull the chariot of the previous King George Osa with his body. After a lifetime of enduring abuse and torture, Raymond was granted the power of Corpse Magic by George Osa, an ability that was deemed repugnant to be in the royal family. Raymond believed he was destined to receive the magic as only he was able to endure its power. Over the years Raymond would continue to grow in power and status, absorbing countless corpses over decades; eventually becoming one of the 12 Pillars of the Demon Army. Raymond would spend years fighting on the front lines of the Demon Tribe and Human Tribe War, fighting notable figures in the Dragon Knights such as Sophisas.

Raymond was ambitious and planned to usurp the royal family and become the new King of the Demon Tribe. Raymond began cooperating with the Regent of the Human Kingdom, Tols Angus. Following the death of the previous king George Osa, his daughter Isabella Osa took her place as Queen of the Demon Realm. However, Isabella had no interest in continuing the war with the Human Tribe and instead wanted to negotiate a truce between the two kingdoms, even going as far as to punish her subordinates for harming the human captives. Raymond himself witnessed Isabella condemn the Gate Pillar Brady for killing human captives. When Raymond tried to defend the Brady, Isabella’s High Commander Lillian whipped Raymond while Isabella threatened to remove his power should he speak out of turn again.

Raymond later met in secret with Angus’s Informant but was ambushed by Lillian who caught word of his plan. Rather than turn him in however, Lillian decided to take the throne for herself so that Isabella would be relieved of her burden of a ruler and finally return Lillian’s love. Forced to comply, Raymond assisted in helping Lillian become the new ruler of the Demon Realm, while planning to overthrow her in the near future.

### Dwarf Kingdom Arc

He was sent by Lillian to invade the Dwarf Tribe as the Demon Tribe Army's commander. He made a deal with Lolan to install the latter on the Dwarf Tribe at the expense of his father and brother in exchange for the Kingdom's surrender and 100 monthly Dwarf sacrifices.

He launched several attacks against the Dwarf Tribe forces, which were conducted by Ballian, Kilyen, Soso, Papate, Bosmu, Mucus and their troops, as well as the occasional help of Darkulo. He collected the corpses from these battles and used them to strengthen himself and create corpse soldiers.

He recalled an ongoing attack after Sophisas's squadron interfered. He then moved to finalize preparations for the final attack, which he led personally.

## Powers and Abilities

Raymond is considered the second strongest of the Demon Pillars and has evenly fought with Sophisas, the commander of the White Dragon Knights.

**Corpse Magic:** Raymond's main power is his ability to manipulate a person's corpse and even absorb their power. This ability was once a power that originally belonged to the Osa royal family but was instead discarded as George Osa believed it was repugnant to be in the royal bloodline. The ability however takes a great amount of mental and physical endurance to control, something only Raymond was capable of.

* **Corpse Magic - Corpse Summon:** He summons corpses he has created from underground. He has full control over these corpses and can command them to use the same skills they had during life. These corpses can also infect others and turn them into his puppet corpses as well.
* **Corpse Magic - Absorption:** He absorb corpses to increase his strength.
* **Corpse Magic - Corpse Fusion:** He fuses many of the corpses he has created to make bigger and stronger puppet soldiers.
* **Corpse Magic - Corpse Creation:** He creates corpse puppets from his own strength source and tissue. He has a high degree of latitude regarding the anatomy of what he creates, which range from humanoid soldiers to giant flying monsters.
* **Corpse Magic - Teleportation:** He wraps a target into his tissue and quickly transports them to a different location.