This was all conjecture.
Would there even be someone at the waterfall? Would this someone be an oracle? Would this someone know he was coming? If someone was there, waiting for him, would he be able to use [World Without Witness] without Ximena noticing?
Naturally, the answer very well could be "no" — that there was nobody there and this expedition was fruitless.
However, it was time to trust in luck and his instinct.
A few of the Akkuron lookouts watched Vale and Ximena leave, but they made no motion to stop him, only relaying his actions.
As Vale stepped outside the dungeon for the first time since becoming Emergent, his advancement in power was expressed in full.
Taking a deep breath of the night air, Vale monitored his Aether leakage and guessed that, as long as he didn't overtly expend his Aether, he could stay outside for over a year — eighteen months or so.
