"I need soldiers," Victor von Doom said bluntly, getting straight to the point. "Veterans with firm resolve and extensive combat experience. I need you to select a unit. Its members can rotate, and their backgrounds need not matter, but they must meet those requirements. Whether they come from poor families or wealthy landowners, they must have a deep understanding of the City of Immortals' ideals. When this unit returns from the front to recuperate, they must be able to pass on their experience and explain those ideals to the soldiers in the camp who have just come out of training. This requires your approval."
Victor von Doom was clearly somewhat displeased by the restrictions on his authority, but there was a reason he deliberately exercised his status as Regent of the City of Immortals. He was now the Commander-in-Chief of the Latvian Army. Before the City of Immortals' ideals had taken root in people's hearts, emphasizing his identity as its Regent would only create a sense of division. Once their thinking had been unified, the City of Immortals and Latveria would become one, inseparable from each other. But for the Latverians of today, that was still too early, too far ahead of its time. Most political propaganda still had to be carried out by personnel from the City of Immortals—yet as "Unified Truth" and educational programs for soldiers and civilians began to make progress, narrow nationalism would be replaced by a comparatively less narrow human supremacism. Victor von Doom believed that process would only accelerate.
He also hoped that goal could be achieved as soon as possible, preventing Salomon's patience from running out and forcing him to push things forward through violence. Even if this cause was destined to drown the land in blood, he hoped less Latverian blood would