This "vacation" lasted less than six hours. After instructing little Lorna to make sure she handed the files to her adoptive mother, Salomon turned and left New York with his weapons. Fortunately, Latveria was six hours ahead of New York, so if he hurried back now, he could still make it in time for the War Council's routine afternoon meeting. That did not mean he could work more than twenty-four hours a day. Even if he wanted to, he could not; after all, that was an inviolable law of physics in the real universe. But that did not mean he could not live through the same span of time under two different identities.
The puppet attending classes at Oxford University was recalled during the break and stuffed into the Emperor of Latveria's office, where it was remotely controlled by the Emperor's Mental Power, just as it had been while attending classes at Oxford University. Adding together the hours worked under those two identities, he did indeed work more than twenty-four hours a day. Still, when necessary, the Emperor would personally appear and replace that puppet, whose skeleton was made of steel and whose bionic muscles and engine served as its driving force, allowing him to better receive information from his subordinates.
Especially when deciding whether to start a war.
The first Expansion War had ended, but that did not mean the Emperor's march toward establishing the Yugoslav Federation would come to a halt. Full-scale war had temporarily ceased, but localized wars and conflicts would not settle down simply because the main plan had been put on hold. The Balkan Peninsula was rife with conflict, with wars constantly breaking out. Even in modern times, from Croatia's independence in 1991 to the Kosovo War in 1999, nine years of war had swallowed