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I think the point of the lore is : the wave since the Rending are pretty weak, and the ancients and powerful monsters can come only when there is a super wave... like right now where multiple waves are stacking so the mana of the surface is reaching monstruous level. Ancients are coming back, and the scholar is gonna lose his challenge, because he only have see records of the weak waves.
For what I remenber, instructor work for the Oracle, so with her timely apperance, she's here to take the metal right? Surely there was a bet between Oracle and Zhorion for who earn or take back the metal after some fight between contestants and Young Zhorions. Anyway I'm guessing she will try do buy the metal or part of it.
There is a great difference of pression between 10 and 20 meters down (2 and 3 bars or atmospheres) but between 2500 and 5000m, the pression "only" double. So if Jake gain 50% in body and/or aether Constitution, with local boost in aether Constitution (for weak orifice and organ) he should be able to get the platinum record by the end of the trial no?