The next day, at high noon, Zebulun became king. Brother Mark performed the coronation ceremony.
The crowd cheered their new king, then watched in confusion as men began hauling armfuls of scrolls onto the stage and depositing them onto a huge stone block brought for the purpose.
The men finished stacking scrolls and left. Amalek, Davion, and Quinn ascended to the stage. King Zebulun raised his hands to quiet the murmuring crowd.
"This pile of scrolls," said Zebulun, "contains the entire corpus of law in the old kingdom: three-thousand one hundred eighty-seven individual laws."
Zebulun turned to Davion and nodded. Davion held up his hand to the pile. It burst into flames.
The crowd stared in shock, then burst into raucous applause.
The new king held up his hands as the old law burned behind him. "It is unreasonable," he said, "to expect every man to know and obey thousands of laws — laws most of them can’t even read. Even a few hundred laws is too many. The old laws are hereby revoked. The Law of the Kingdom of Ur shall be far simpler."
The king held out his hand to Davion. Davion handed him a scroll.
King Zebulun stood before man, cyclops, and dragon and gave them The Law.