Chaos Unbound by Brian S. Leon

Author:Brian S. Leon [Leon, Brian S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

“What’s the big deal about Laszlovara?” Aislin asked, breaking the cemetery-like silence in the room.

“You will have to forgive her,” Gracen replied. “She’s young.”

“It’s an utter nightmare is what it is,” Duma said, pushing himself to his feet to pace.

“I gathered as much by all of your reactions,” Aislin said. “But that doesn’t explain why.”

“Vampires,” I said without facing her. “Laszlovara is the region’s historic name. Everyone knows it now as Coronini—a working commune that lies right on the banks of the Danube in Romania, right across the river from Serbia. And it’s the home of the Liuntika Strigoi—the oldest and most powerful vampire coven in existence.”

“Not to mention it’s probably also Lilith’s—the freakin’ Mother of all Strigoi—refuge,” Duma said.

“And there’s that,” I replied. “You’re positive about the location?”

“Very,” Duma said. “He hasn’t moved significantly in the last hour. I checked several times to make damn sure.”

Wonderful. I recalled my first foray into the area in the late ninth century, when I fought with the Magyars against the Bulgarians and Emperor Simeon I, mostly because Simeon made a pact with the vampires of the region to grant them protection and land within his realm. We won the first battle, but I barely escaped after I publicly killed a vampire envoy that had enthralled my commander. Unfortunately, in the battle that followed, the vampires pushed the Magyars back to what is now Csepel Island in Budapest, where King Arpad finally built a fortress to hold them back.

The vampires, rumored to be led by Lilith herself, eventually retreated south along the Danube to an area that became known as Laszlovara. The early Hungarians fought many wars with these Strigoi over the area, which was famous for its gold and iron mines, and eventually even erected a stronghold there named after one of their greatest kings and warriors—and vampire killers—Saint Ladislaus. The provisional human outpost and their control over the area did not last. And we still had no human, or even nonhuman, allies in the area we could count on to help us find the Hanner Brid.

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