Chapter 235: Chapter 235: Bro, How Have You Been De-stressing Lately?

"This train’s basically a success, right?"

In the Roster territory suburbs, watching the ultra-high-speed train that could now float and race along the track at 600 kilometers per hour, the Apprentice couldn’t help but break into a huge grin.

Recently, aside from products that absolutely had to be made quickly, he’d spent all his other time with the Wild Mage trying to recreate this ultra-high-speed train.

Finally, today, they’d built a simple ultra-high-speed maglev train. On a circular test track about 50 kilometers long with dozens of different curves and elevation changes, it was officially running.

Both speed and stability perfectly matched their estimates. The situation was even better than they’d expected.

"Next we’ll see how it handles loads. If there are no problems, Viscount Roster can start rolling it out across the Southern territory on a large scale." The Wild Mage’s face also showed a big smile.

The sense of achievement from changing the world really gave him massive satisfaction.

"Yeah, I already contacted the territory managers to send over a batch of ore. Everything depends on tomorrow."

The Apprentice nodded deeply. "Too bad it’s so late today. Otherwise we could’ve gotten a good night’s sleep tonight..."

The researchers around them all nodded.

God knows how much pressure they were under. This was something that could change the entire world! A super creation that could make the distance between cities incredibly close!

Who wouldn’t feel the pressure?!

"Speaking of which, have you guys seen anything online lately that’s good for de-stressing? My stress has gotten so bad that even blacksmithing competitions, trimming donkey hooves, and carpet cleaning videos can’t help anymore."

One researcher seemed to have relaxed a bit now that work had reached a stopping point, and started asking his colleagues.

"No idea. I’ve just been watching pretty girl videos lately. They’re okay, I guess!"

"They say lust comes from emptiness and emptiness from lust—you’re just lustful whenever you’re empty!"

"It’s not me being lustful, it’s our lord being too excellent!"

"Seriously though, the clothes produced by the garment factory are really something. Very stimulating. The only issue is they’re way too high quality."

"Isn’t high quality a good thing?"

"You’re still young. When you get married, you’ll understand. Some clothes don’t necessarily need to be high quality... But speaking of de-stressing videos, I did recently discover some interesting vid—"

"Get lost! Everyone, don’t trust this guy. He said the video was de-stressing, where you could watch things get destroyed. But when I watched it, I almost died of frustration. He always leaves one or two things, and it made me so anxious, super uncomfortable!"

"What kind of logic is that? In the video, things free-fall and get smashed. It’s super de-stressing, okay!"

While an OCD sufferer and a non-OCD sufferer argued about whether the content was actually de-stressing, the Apprentice had already squatted down and pulled out his Magic Net.

Whether it was de-stressing or not, you’d only know after watching!

However, the moment he pulled out the Magic Net, the first video recommended was actually Audrey’s announcement video.

"Whoa—what’s this new style? How come I haven’t seen this at the garment factory?"

The Apprentice couldn’t help but gasp. He’d invented the equipment for the garment factory, so whenever something new came up with problems, he naturally had to solve them and record it for the next version’s optimization.

Under these circumstances, he’d be the first to know about many things others didn’t. But this kimono that appeared—he was genuinely seeing it for the first time.

A completely different style, the stockinged legs faintly visible beneath the slit, plus that exquisite dance—he was kind of mesmerized watching it. He watched it over and over, getting weirdly addicted.

It wasn’t until he heard shouting in his ear that he snapped out of it. "Boss Apprentice, Boss Apprentice, you be the judge. I think it’s de-stressing, he thinks it’s not. Take a look—is it de-stressing or not?"

"De-stressing, of course it’s de-stressing. I feel like my stress..." The Apprentice was about to answer reflexively, but halfway through, he suddenly realized something was off. He coughed lightly. "Um, are you guys still talking about that bottle thing? Let me search for it now..."

"Boss Apprentice, we’re not curious anymore about whether you think that thing is de-stressing. We want to de-stress with you too. Share it with us!"

Everyone knew that among their group, the Apprentice always had the most pressure. With massive stress, he’d know better than anyone whether something online was actually de-stressing.

Right then, they all switched targets, turning their eyes on the Apprentice.

"No need to share. It’s just a video from Audrey, that archbishop in charge of our territory’s Church of Love and Beauty. She announced she’s livestreaming tonight. Ahem, I was just thinking maybe we could try watching to see if it helps de-stress. The final test is tomorrow. If we can’t solve this, we’ll have to pull an all-nighter tonight."

As the Apprentice was speaking, suddenly a refined-looking researcher interrupted: "How about we just don’t sleep at all and do a night test to see how our ultra-high-speed maglev train performs at night—"

"Get lost!"

"If you want to test it, you test it!"

"I’m going home to sleep anyway and waiting for tomorrow’s load transport test."

Seeing his colleagues’ looks that could kill, the refined researcher trembled and quickly said: "Um, I was just saying it casually, just casually. We definitely need to rest at night. We’re all so tired... Oh right, since today’s work is done, let me treat everyone to a sauna before we go home!"

Joking around, the researchers boarded carriages and returned to Roster territory’s urban area.

At this time, the sky wasn’t completely dark yet, but Roster territory was already brightly lit. Compared to before, Roster territory had clearly expanded quite a bit. Lights were everywhere, creating a really nice atmosphere.

Some factories on three-shift rotations had just gotten off work. Workers streamed out of the factories and headed toward the night schools. This seemed to have become routine for many people.

As long as you could successfully graduate from night school, not only would promotions prioritize you, but you’d also get rewards from the lord’s manor after each exam. Especially for slaves—if they could graduate, the reward points were almost enough to buy their freedom.

Under these circumstances, Roster territory was very likely already one of the areas in the kingdom with the highest cultural level and lowest illiteracy rate... Of course, the number of people using second-gen Magic Net was probably also the densest in the world.

Many of them had received a second-gen Magic Net ring directly from the factory, because this way the factory would run more smoothly, and various announcements could be conveyed to everyone more easily.

However, compared to usual, today their discussion topics had shifted somewhat.