For the past few days, Stephanie had been busy sending supplies and personnel into the mountains of Latveria to support the guerrillas there. This included large amounts of City of Immortals currency, administrative staff responsible for establishing temporary banks, and numerous propagandists tasked with spreading the ideals of the City of Immortals. These propagandists also took on the work of training local young people and setting up schools. Stephanie was deeply invested in this work, personally overseeing it to ensure every detail was carried out without error.
Victor von Doom's initial idea had been to storm the castle of Latveria's ruler, drag out his entire family for a public trial, and then hang them all before developing technology and the economy. However, the monarch of the City of Immortals had a different opinion. He believed Latveria needed total liberation, from its economy to its culture, with nothing left out. The purpose of the temporary banks and the goods sent to guerrillas in Latverian villages for trade was to establish the City of Immortals' credibility among the local people from the ground up. That credibility, along with the currency, would become another covert war, and Stephanie was the commander-in-chief of that war.
Even illiterate, toothless old women in the countryside had to understand that this war was for the future of Latverians. The time gained through the City of Immortals' advantage in information warfare was meant to change people's hearts, calling on Latverians to fight for their own future before teaching them to fight for others and for all humanity. Only then could future Latveria become a backbone of the City of Immortals, and only then could Salomon gain an army filled with grand dreams—people who might once have been the children of rural laborers or urban scavengers. But Salomon would