Meg was very happy these days. The entire world looked colorful to her. Meg would often smile while talking. salves and Eva had noticed the change. Eva knew that the reason for Meg happiness was Ash.
Ash changed so much. This change also gave Meg hope and will to live. Before she always had those lifeless eyes. But now her eyes sparkling brightly.
Meg got some free time so she was walking on the blackwaste as she thought about Ash. She wanted to tease Ash.
Her wanted to spend more time with him. She can't wait to go back and see him again. She felt time was going too slowly. Each second felt like an hour to her.
Meg suddenly turned her head saw some animals was running towardd the iron mountain from north side. Meg knew that north of Blackwaste is where Carrion Swamp was. These monsters must have been came from there.
" Everyone run towards the castle. Monsters are attacking." Meg shouted. With Meg' shout every salves face turned pale they all run towards castle. Meg words was also heard by Aiden and Ethan. They also immediately warned everyone and asked them to run towards the castle.
Ash was checking the Monitor. The monitor was located in his hut. It's like a modern TV screen. With this Ash can see everything outside within 50 meters. Ash suddenly saw so many green dots was running towards the castle. Green dots was the salves.
Green dot meant friendly people. And red dot meant danger.
Ash came out of his space hurriedly. Ash found Meg outside. "Meg, what happened?"
" Young master, monster from Carrion Swamp are attacking our Iron mountain."
Ash " Meg, I will open my space. You take everyone hide there."
Ash waved his hand and a portal appeared. The portal was 2 metre in height and about 2 meter wide. The portal shape was like a big round O. The sides or the edges of the portal is painted black. The portal looked like it was made of water. Many slaves did not understand what this portal was. They are very afraid.
Meg understood this so she went inside the portal first then she was followed by others. Ash then run outside. Since Ash Chakra had increased to low Jounin level his speed have also increased.
Ash saw that undead monster was attacking the iron mountain. Monsters whose body have been turned into a undead after their death. These monsters body was a combination of green and white skeleton. The green was the posion from Carrion Swamp. "Dammit, I can't use my Tenseigan" Ash was little frustrated.
Ash returned to see Eva waiting for him outside. " Have everyone entered?" Ash asked Eva. "Yes." Ash nodded. Ash looked around and suddenly had an idea. " Grandma, you go inside. Meanwhile I will put our supplies, furniture and etc to my barn." Grandpa nodded and went inside.
After 3 minutes Undead was about to attack Ash but he quickly entered the space. Ash came back to see all the salves was sitting near the mountain spring. Every salve was extremely surprised to see Ash Tenseigan. They couldn't move their eyes from looking at him.
Ash directly went inside the hit where Meg, Eva, Aiden and Ethan was sitting. Seeing Ash coming in all of them stood up but Ash waved his hand, Telling them to sit. Other face looked worried about their future.
Eva thought that Anderson clan can finally rise again by using this Blackwaste as it's territory. But now half months of hard work was being destroyed by undead.
" Grandma, why the undead attack us?" Ash asked.
" Because Undead can sense living beings. These undead are low level so they cannot Think. They will act accordingly to their instinct. I have heard the monsters from Carrion Swamp would sometimes come out. I and Green thought is was rumor and chose to ignore it. " Ash knew at that time they had no choice but to came here otherwise Boris would kill them.
Seeing Ash worried face, Eva quickly added." Young master, don't worry. Those undead will leave when they sense there is no living being."
" Grandma, after this crisis is over. We have to train some salves to protect this iron mountain." Eva was surprised by Ash words. She was comforting him, but He was already thinking about their next move. Eva smiled in satisfaction. 'Young master, indeed have matured.'
" Undertood"
" We will just till All undead leaves the iron mountain. We have enough food and water for everyone. We can stay here for a long time without any worries." Ash words made Everyone relieved. Ash said those words to not make anyone worried. ' Clever Boy' Eva praised Ash in her mind.
Ash went out with everyone. Ash looked at everyone with his Tenseigan. Although he was feeling pain, Ash endured. All the salves was looking at Ash blue Tenseigan.
" Everyone, my name is Ash Anderson. I am the young master of Anderson family. As you can see I have space abilities. My strength never decreased even though I was forced to drink the water of nothingness. Currently you are in my space.
You are Anderson family salve. Someone of you are born as salves and some of you were forced to become salves." Ash raised his hand and said loudly.
" Today, I declare as the head of the Anderson family I will abolish your status as a salve, according to your contribution. If you have any special skills like crafting, painting, anything. Your status as a salve will be immediately abolished. Everyone must make certain contributions to become free. You will be able to live in this land as a commoner again. You will allowed to marry and start your own family. You can live your life as a commoner. " Meg, Eva, Aiden and Ethan looked at Ash in shock. Eva even wanted to stop Ash but she didn't since Ash was the young master of Anderson family.
" Naturally, I won't hesitate to kill you if you betray the Anderson family." Ash' eyes turned cold. His beautiful eyes looked it had become a extremely beautiful piece of ice. All the Salves trembled in fear.
" That's all. For now everyone will live here. I don't want this place to become a fish market. {Fish market means a noisy place.) Everyone will be regularly given food and water. Another thing, from today onwards every will learn how to read and write." Ash left and entered his hut after his speech.
Eva and others followwd Ash." Young master, what would happen if all the Slaves gain their identity as commoner then it would out loss." Eva was really worried.
Ash smiled and said." Relax. Those salves have the Anderson family mark on their forehead. That means even if they run away, they will be captured as a salve again. In addition, I want them to be more independent. They would work hard to gain their freedom as a commoner. So we won't have to watch over them anymore. If someone gains their freedom then we can just give them a piece of land and have 40 percent of harvest as tax."
Eva, Meg, Aiden and Ethan was deeply surprised. They never thought Ash had thought this far. Eva even felt that her vision is way smaller than Ash. Meg looked at the man whom she loved, her eyes full of admiration.
Ash hands was sweating due to nervousness. As a Otaku Ash was never good at speech. He was always shy when speaking in front of others. But Today Ash knew that this speech was needed to motivate everyone. Meg was surprised to see Ash sweating. Meg couldn't help but laugh secretly. Ash looked so cool when he was speaking loudly in front of those salves.
" Grandma, please teach them how to read and write. Meg you stay here. Aiden and Ethan go help grandma." Eva nodded with smile. Eva looked at Meg with a smile which made the latter blush.
Although the slaves didn't understand what was going on, they still obediently sat down. Ash then turned to Eva after looking at the slaves. "Grandma, I've brought a lot of empty cups with me. If anyone wants to drink, let them go to the spring to drink some spatial water. I'll come up with some blankets that they could sleep on." Having said that, he walked in front of the barn, and with a thought, a lot of cups came out. They were wooden cups, cheap ones that Green had bought for the slaves.
Eva and Meg soon passed around the cups. Ash also brought a lot of blankets for the slaves to sleep on the ground with. And after that, Ash came up with a few cushions.
These cushions weren't for sitting, they were used to build dividing walls. With more than a hundred people here, they will need a bathroom, especially now that there were both men and women inside the space. Although they were small, the cushions that Green had bought should be sufficient enough to build something that would separate the two sides.
Aiden and Ethan led several male slaves to one side of the barn and blocked off that piece of land with the cushions. The female slaves had the other side.
Ash and Meg then returned to the hut.