The crowd looked at the young lord standing steadfastly at the edge of the cliff, their eyes filled with trust, admiration, and reverence. With wisdom incomprehensible to mortals, he had conquered this insurmountable natural barrier.
Evelyn scurried over, her eyes wide with shock, looking at Arthur, who was instructing Qiba Nana to prepare a few more transport ropes. She thought, "How is it that you seem to be the one who truly studies ancient Valyrian technology?"
Arthur turned and smiled at her. He had even thought of how to make money. He handed her a parchment, realizing he was now considered a cultured person in Westeros, and decided to guide this promising woman: "You haven't seen much!"
"Evelyn, do you think light, like water, can also be guided?"
Evelyn looked up, staring blankly at Arthur before her.
"We also need to carve out some windows, even huge windows, on the mountain itself."
"Our castle currently only needs to accommodate five hundred people, so we also need to consider living conditions."
"Then, at critical points inside the mountain, such as tunnel corners or the tops of shafts, we place this."
"Using copper or silver, or even water and glass, polished to an extreme, as smooth as your mirror. Light enters through a gap, shines on the first metal plate, and then it goes to the next place."
"Just like water in an aqueduct, we use smooth metal plates, one by one, to transmit sunlight to wherever we want it to go, even to the bottom of the deepest tunnel."
Evelyn's breathing stopped. Her pupils contracted sharply as she stared intently at Arthur. This wasn't engineering; this was the application of the world's fundamental laws, a building art almost magical!
Her body began to tremble, not from cold, but from an extreme excitement. She looked up, and her gaze towards Arthur completely changed. It was worship, as if no difficulty could stump the young man before her, and all her own problems could be easily solved by him.
This young man, with a casual idea, had easily crushed her pride. She suddenly realized that he was the most deeply hidden person. The secrets hidden by her young master were more numerous than her own, more numerous than all the maesters in Westeros combined.
"I... I understand." Evelyn's voice carried a tremor she didn't even notice.
Arthur looked at the shocked Evelyn and suddenly realized that even small pieces of knowledge far surpassed the development of this era in Westeros. Perhaps the way to make money lay within this.
Evelyn threw herself into this new plan with an almost fanatical passion.
She didn't sleep, spending the entire night calculating and drawing, transforming Arthur's brilliant, somewhat rough idea into a precise, feasible, and perfect plan.
She personally calculated the optimal placement angle and size for each reflective metal plate.
A few days later, in the small hall already excavated within the mountain, the first simple refraction system was installed. Evelyn personally directed in the hall, and the craftsmen slowly hoisted one polished copper plate after another into their designated positions using ropes.
When those copper plates were carefully secured and adjusted to the final precise angle, a miracle occurred.
A bright, warm beam of sunlight, as if from heaven, pierced through layers of darkness and precisely projected downwards. The entire dark small hall lit up, illuminating the shocked and astonished faces of the people in the darkness.
Arthur stood at the window opened high up, looking down. The beam of light passed through his body, outlining his figure as one surrounded by light.
The miners in the tunnel, bathed in this artificial sunlight, were first dazed, then erupted in a great clamor. Finally, they all knelt on the ground, devoutly kowtowing towards the direction from which the light beam came—Arthur's direction—shouting "A miracle of the Seven Gods."
And Evelyn stood among the cheering crowd at the bottom of the shaft, not looking at the magical beam of light.
She simply looked up, gazing at the young man's figure.
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