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The news of King Nazar’s death reached Kovia about three days after it happened, and when King Lazaro heard the news, even though he’d expected it, he still felt sorry for the man. Such was the price that mortals had to pay to exist on this world, and he could only imagine what it would be like.
Vampires, as everyone knew, couldn’t die. If left to their own affairs, a vampire could survive for the rest of eternity. But immortality didn’t mean that they couldn’t be killed. And that was how a great number of them had fallen, either torn apart or drowned in holy water. Some were burnt alive, while others succumbed to the kiss of the Morningstar during the first war between vampires and men.
“You should sympathize with them,” King Lazaro said when Sir Leonard didn’t say anything upon h
