Blue Midnight aka Blake has a new name, Dark Midnight, the King of Death he struggles to live in the open as Mortimer, king of the grim reapers. He tries to hit the ground running. But everyone is treating him differently, most are scared of him or see him as a usurper for his stealing the empire as they see it. Others want him to do miracles he can't do. Meanwhile, Aureus the Rose, formerly the idiot the Masked Chicken is now in charge of the Magicians he is a puppet emperor the real Emperor is Dark Midnight the former emperor as Aureus can't cope as Emperor, he can't lead a dog on a walk, let alone an empire.
