After a brief lull, the Balkan War resumed that very night, advancing with irresistible momentum like a walking War Engine. The supreme commander in golden armor rode a snow-white pegasus, an dazzling longsword in hand. Behind him followed thousands of Power Armor-clad Gene-modded Warriors, heavy tracked Armored Personnel Carriers carrying artillery and rockets, and Super Heavy Tank mechanized units. They appeared within Romania, which had only just tasted the bitterness of war. Although the regent's ambassador had already flown to Serbia on a special plane, Salomon did not care whether Serbia would send soldiers as reinforcements. Romania was the final act of this phase of the war, as well as one of Latveria's primary targets.
With Europe's GPS positioning system completely paralyzed, the Aegis Ballistic Missile System deployed by NATO at Deveselu in southern Romania had become entirely useless. Four hundred Romanian soldiers, 250 U.S. military personnel, and numerous agents from Western European Intelligence Departments all knelt neatly on the concrete roadway, watched over by ten Gene-modded Warriors armed with Explosive Rounds Guns. An Assault Transport was parked in the lot, while technicians bearing bionic implants were escorted down its ramp and into the control room.
No one dared make any unnecessary movements. After the initial resistance, nearly a hundred corpses torn apart by explosive shells and longswords still lay scattered throughout the base. The smells of propellant, ozone, and foul chunks of flesh still lingered in the soldiers' nostrils. They did not know where these invulnerable, cold-blooded killers had come from, but the warriors had crushed every defense obstructing their seizure of the base with astonishing efficiency, mercilessly unleashing violence upon every person who resisted.
After twenty minutes of work, technicians from the Mars Foundry implanted a program into the Aegis system. The Gene-modded Warriors pulled the agents from