Can You Accelerate Without Slaves?

When Viscount Rost arrived at the Golden City, almost every prominent figure across the entire continent—whether great lords, wealthy merchants, mages, knights, or divine priests and the pope—had gathered in one place.

If a Legendary Mage were to cast a spell and blast this place right now... there was a high probability not a single ripple would be stirred.

Of course, assuming everyone offered no resistance, then there was a high probability the entire continent would plunge into chaos.

Because all the important figures had gathered here.

They had gathered for a single purpose: to witness the completion of the first true Ultra-High-Speed Rail Transit System!

As the process of industrialization advanced, the construction speed of the Ultra-High-Speed Rail Transit System had surpassed everyone's imagination.

It had been built in a mere half a year.

Even if this were placed in Roger's previous life, it would have been an utterly impossible feat.

The famous Beijing-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway had a total length of 2,298 kilometers and took seven and a half years to build; subsequent high-speed railways varied in efficiency depending on the terrain, but they were almost no different from this.

At most, they could be slightly faster.

Yet the Ultra-High-Speed Rail Transit System they built had only taken half a year.

The sheer terror of this left even Roger somewhat dumbfounded.

However, it was not entirely incomprehensible.

Although the machinery in this world was still at a relatively primitive stage, it unfortunately possessed infinite energy, eliminating the need to worry about many problems. In addition, a large number of mages had joined the production and construction.

In his previous life, excavating a tunnel still required the use of a shield tunneling machine; excavating three to four meters in an hour placed one in the international top three, excavating six