Free Reborn: Knight's Code by D.W. Jackson Page A

second chance at a free life. Ash expected this to breed highly loyal servants in the future. Emelia thought it would be fine to mark them as slaves, but Ash argued that having loyal citizens would be a bigger advantage in the future. She didn’t fully agree but she supported him with only a few minor grumbles.
    There was also a few problems with the nobles but so far, only one had been caught breaking the laws openly. Just as Emelia had promised, he was beheaded in a public execution. He had only been an un-landed noble, but Emelia, not wanting to foster an enemy of his family, let his son inherit the title.
    This alone was enough to keep Ash busy, but Emelia had added a few more laws, though these did not apply to nonhumans but to females. With female population dominating over the men by a large margin, Emelia made it where noble titles now fell to the first decedent no matter if it was male or female. She also set up laws to protect females from harassment, that even spread to slaves making it illegal to force them to preform night duties.
    One would think that this would cause less problems than the laws dealing with nonhumans, but it didn’t just effect nobles. All wealthy slave owners had demanded audiences to file grievances to the new laws arguing that the slaves were their property and they should be able to do with them as they pleased. For more than five days straight it was Ash’s duty to explain the new law and then to send them away. More than once, he had to threaten to have all their property seized if they refused to abide by the laws. A few even went so far as to declare they would leave the duchy, but Ash was left unmoved as he completely agreed with Emelia’s new decrees.
    Thanks to his busy life, Ash had only been able to reach the twenty-seventh floor of the labyrinth. The demon wasp on the twenty sixth floor didn’t have any abilities he could learn, but the flame spirit on the twenty seventh floor had two and so far he had only been able to gain the Flame Sword ability.
    [Flame Sword- cost 30MP coat a weapon in flame essence.]
    Ash found it weird that it was called flame sword but would be used with any weapon. Then again the flame spirits had only used swords made out of flame so that might have been the reason.
    Ash might have continued on with the busy days if Yuki had not reminded him of her advancement class that was now only a day away. He felt a little bad for ignoring her and the others lately, so he asked Emelia if he could take the day off in order to attend the class. When Emelia heard what it was for, not only did she give permission she decided to attend with him. Ash expressed his worries that having the duchess attend might draw too much attention, but she threw the words right back at him. Right now it was not Emelia who was drawing the most attention, but him as her nonhuman husband who could easily be seen as the reason for the current changes in policy.
    Yuki showed a happy face and hugged both Ash and Emelia when she was told that they would both be coming to watch her test.
    The next day Ash, Emelia, and ten guards left the manor and headed for the Adventurer School that was located at the other end of the city. As they walked through the city, numerous people started to gather but not one of them called out. Looking around, it reminded Ash of parades that he had went to when he was younger.  By the time they reached the school, there were more than a hundred people following behind them. Ash couldn’t help but look at Emelia who seemed to be at ease, even with the large group following them so he did his best to endure the feeling of uneasiness that crawled through his mind.
    When they were near the Adventurer School, two men quickly ran out and bowed to Ash and Emelia. “My lords, what brings you to our humble establishment?”
    “We have been informed that one of our slaves will be having her advancement class today,” Emelia said without hesitation.
    “Ah yes, the