Pirate Kingship-Chapter 809 - 500: Fresnel Lens, Chronicle of Ages_4
The two had met before, beyond their colleagueship, Delia also had a private relationship, reducing much of the formal pleasantries.
Byron got straight to the point with Rudolf, explaining the purpose of his visit and narrowing down the range of Schindler and the transport team members' disappearance.
His plan was simple, if there's trouble, consult the organization.
Being a council member, obtaining clues means you need to submit them to the Lighthouse Union at the earliest opportunity.
In such a turbulent time, discovering an unknown organization secretly hunting Lighthouse Sequence Transcendentals, yet can shield them from his perception. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
How could Byron, the "Storm Lord" of the Lighthouse Sequence, dare to walk into such a trap?
Charge when it's time to charge, stay cautious when it's time to be cautious.
Only a powerful organization like the Lighthouse Union, representing the collective interests of the Lighthouse Sequence, would be the safest option to step in.
After introducing Schindler's situation, Byron casually asked:
"President Rudolf, the Pharos Lighthouse is a Zero-Level Sacred Relic, most anti-divination methods shouldn't be able to prevent the Lighthouse from locating, right?
Why hasn't the mastermind been caught yet?"
Rudolf smiled wryly:
"Theoretically, that's correct.
If we increase the fuel input, the Pharos Lighthouse can illuminate each lighthouse within the human collective subconscious and provide them with extra protection, allowing them to react instantly to any unforeseen events.
Moreover, if an individual submits a request, we can even precisely locate their position in the real world.
But the premise is those Lighthouse Sequence Transcendentals disappeared in the Old Continent, where the power of the Silver Code is strongest.
Even if there's a higher-ranking Zero-Level Sacred Relic suppressing, the case would have been solved by now.
The biggest problem now is the farther from the Old Continent, the lower the efficiency of light transmission.
Even the Bantaan Archipelago requires a lighthouse network relay, not to mention the undiscovered South Continent where even a complete nautical chart hasn't been drawn yet.
All disappearance cases occurred in the South Continent, making it impossible to completely lock down the enemy's trail."
Speaking of this, Rudolf got up and pulled Byron out of the office towards the lamp room at the very top of the lighthouse dome.
A mirror was refracting the burning light of the Leviathan Whale Oil across the sea of collective human subconscious, becoming one of the most significant sources of light in the Spiritual World.
Rudolf pointed to the lamp room and continued explaining to Byron:
"We know the Pharos Lighthouse is already a two-thousand-year-old design, long behind the times.
With technological progress, we've been constantly finding ways to upgrade and replace it.
However, the overall Pharos Lighthouse as a Zero-Level Sacred Relic, cannot casually accept just any transformation.
At least it has to be a First-Class Holy Relic with significant influence to be successfully assimilated into a whole, upgrading from First Level to Zero Level.
The last upgrade was replacing the original copper mirror with The World's First Glass Mirror, wanting to again elevate the lighthouse's effectiveness in a short time is not that simple.
According to our president, who holds the legacy title of "Fire Thief,"
Under the same conditions, we need to improve efficiency by at least 20% to effectively cover the Bantaan Archipelago, and by 50% to cover the South Continent.
Increasing efficiency by 100% can penetrate the dark fog of the Echidna Triangle, if we want to illuminate what the Eastern Continent looks like, efficiency might need to be increased several times to accomplish it.
Moreover, the higher the efficiency, the stronger the suppression on the World Rift, perhaps even delaying the Great Flood by years."
"So the key to everything is the lighthouse efficiency issue?"
Byron's mind stirred, suddenly recalling a good item.
It's not a "new invention" he just thought of, but something he remembered long ago, just unfortunately never found a good opportunity to use it.
With a timely help like providing charcoal in snowy weather, people can truly appreciate the value of charcoal; he wouldn't do anything as foolish as doing good deeds anonymously.
Helping others greatly while also gaining benefits and fame for himself, why not?
Now that there's a tangible need, he no longer held back.
Determined, Byron directly pulled out a giant sheet of sugar cane paper from the Snake Skin Bag and spread it on the ground.
Under the puzzled gaze of Rudolf, Delia, and a group of staff, he activated the Elemental Hand of Wind, juggling several quill pens at once, swiftly sketching a somewhat unusual mirror design diagram on the paper.
The surface of the lens was smooth on one side, while the other was engraved with numerous concentric circles of varying sizes.
In Byron's previous life, this object was called a Fresnel Lens, also known as a threaded lens; its pattern designed according to light's interference, diffraction, and requirements for relative sensitivity and reception angle.
Ordinary people wouldn't understand the principles just by looking at the design, but knowing its effects would suffice.
Lampshades made with Fresnel Lens can drastically enhance the lighthouse's efficiency.
Before its invention, even the brightest lighthouse beams could only reach 12 kilometers, whereas light emitted by a Fresnel Lens could reach as far as 36 kilometers!
Subsequently, scientific tests revealed that using open flames for lighthouse light had around a 97% loss, using reflectors accounted for about 60-80% loss, but Fresnel Lens reduced the loss to just 20%.
In other words, when the lampshade is replaced, the lighthouse's efficiency doesn't merely increase by 20% or 50%, but rather multiplies by 3 to 4 times!
Of course, this world doesn't have Fresnel, hence its name naturally becomes "Saint Byron Lens."
Even before a real object was crafted, as Byron's last stroke fell,
The First Level Holy Relic: Key of Omniscience simultaneously revealed the "Saint Byron Lens" design diagram, the entire book radiated a grand golden light.
Though it wasn't entirely transformed into a Zero-Level Sacred Relic yet, a brand new ability suddenly surged into Byron's mind.
——"Chronicle of Ages"!
The effect has only one: "Modify all... historical records."
