Even though Zakia was in control he was close to losing control again due to using too much power and absorbing too many souls, at the moment he was modifying the arrangements made on his body by the elders of the academy to use them to mislead his potential pursuers.
Zakia had found a sucluded cave along the way to the Valley of Sirens to do these modifications, if one were to enter the cave right now they would find that the young man in the cave was holding a sharp object and actually cutting his own body and drawing complicated lines all over his body with blood gushing out of the cuts. The young man had an emotionless expression as if the body he was cutting was not his.
His reasons for doing this was also to prevent the Oliphant from committing suicide when he gained control of the body again.
"Oliphant, I know you can see what is happening at this moment but I can tell you one thing you cannot kill yourself, even if you try to head back to the academy to hand yourself over you won't be able to." said Zakia as he continues to draw patterns on his body in an absent minded manner.
Zakia continues to speak to himself." This body is mine as it is yours, I know you will try to change what I have done but on your journey to doing that, you will see what kind of world you have come to and you will understand why I did what I did, I have regained some of my power as long as I am stronger than you there's nothing you can do you will have to climb from the initial rank of Spell Casting to the middle rank to actually do anything. I look forward to seeing how you do it even though you're still clinging to morals and values of your former world."
As Zakia says this his eyes start to roll back and turn into whites as he starts to lose consciousness and loses the grip on the sharp object he's been cutting himself with. When his eyes turned back to normal a painful scream could be heard coming out of the cave. The first thing Oliphant experienced was extreme pain all over his body and soul as he was feeling responsible for the many lives that Zakia had taken. Even though in his former world he had experienced pain, it was a far cry from what he is feeling at the moment. Oliphant curled up into a ball in the cave as pain, agony and guilt assaulted him.
After a while of enduring the pain he gathered strength to take the sharp object Zakia used to draw and carve patterns on his body and tried to thrust it to his eye. Not to his surprise the object stopped midway near his eye no matter how much strength he gathered he couldn't hurt his own body, at this moment his body experienced more pain than before. Oliphant dropped the object and curled up once again. After a while the pain subsided into a bearable amount as he stood up and walked towards the cave entrance.
What he saw as he stood at the cave entrance was a mountain range with numerous peaks in the distance shrouded in cumulonimbus clouds indicating heavy rain, its peaks could not be seen, the mountain range was arranged in a semicircle shape and was half surrounding a lake in the middle, the lake was dark and it's depths could not be seen, there were river tributaries meandering everywhere in and out of the lake with many small boats using them as a form of transportation to and out of the mountain range.
Even though Oliphant could see the Valley of Sirens from this distance he was still far away from actually getting there, that's how enormous the mountain range was it muddled with ones sense of perspective.
"So this is the Valley of Sirens that Zakia was headed to but why is it called a valley when its a mountain range? , this is strange, what is his motive does he want me to go there, no he did this on purpose even if I don't go there and stay here and wait to be caught he may regain control before that even happens, so I have to head there anyway to find out what his motive is in coming here, I have to try and stop him before the people in that area suffer disaster at his hands like the previous village. "Oliphant said with a pained expression and voice.
Even though Oliphant had no connections with anyone in this world, witnessing mass genocide up close broke something in him even he did not know what this thing was. He even felt a higher sense of responsibility to protect everyone from Zakia, this cold blooded killer which was also himself, Oliphant was caught in a dilemma.
Oliphant was now in a state where one could say he had a Mind Hive everything he knew was shared with Zakia but because Zakia had a more powerful soul than that of Oliphant who has just arrived in this world and had no modifications done on it using soul related abilities this he did not receive much of Zakia's memories thus him being at a disadvantage with gathering the power of the world and aquring spells by comprehending how nature and the world works naturally. As an example if one wanted to master spells related to lightning they would have to understand how lightning is formed in the clouds in every way and inscribe an array or inscription to imitate this phenomenon and form a spell.
In the periphery of the Seed Nurturing Academy three men had just finished their own serperate conclusions on the whereabouts of Zakia. Due to Zakia making arrangements at the scene and on himself the men obtained different results causing them to have to split up on searching for Zakia,. The men moved in three different directions as they bid farewell to each other. Since Zakia had killed a disciple of the Shadow Corp, Saka was headed in a more accurate direction than the other three and was quickly closing in on his target.
"Wait for me Zakia you will pay for what you've done I promise you that, you will know that the Shadow Corp is not a place you can kill one of our own and get away with it." said Saka as he quickly moved through the shadows of the night.