Constantine knew how the Emperor made use of humanity's reverence for Him.
Even though He loathed personal worship, a pragmatist would never pass up a tool that could be used.
The First Yugoslav Federation Unification War had forced Latveria and the other nations of the Balkan Peninsula to unite, forming a country capable of influencing the situation in Europe. Making that decision had been difficult, and carrying it out had been just as difficult, because Eastern Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church, and Islam on the Balkan Peninsula were locked in endless disputes. Wars between heretics and heretics, heretics and unbelievers, followed one after another. The various financial conglomerates of Europe and North America also used The Hand to disrupt the region and reap profits from it. Albania's oil extraction rights had been sold to the Rockefeller family of the United States for two hundred thousand dollars, and that money had gone straight into the personal pocket of Albania's prime minister at the time.
But the Emperor's arrival changed everything.
He began with weapons, then moved on to speeches and education.
Sarajevo, Budapest, Plovdiv, Sophia, Brasov—after experiencing war, many people turned to support the Emperor's ideals. It was not merely because they saw that the Emperor's cause was unstoppable, or witnessed the Emperor's own charisma. They even saw hope of escaping poverty and oppression. The affairs of six dynasties amounted to nothing but private calculations for their own houses. That was how the saying went, wasn't it? Then came one precise purge after another. Though ambitious men died, even more people gained benefits. He redistributed those benefits, targeting the civilians who had once suffered most. That alone was enough to bring many civilians who had once hated Him over to His side.
The Emperor would instill a firm conviction in people: the