In Oliphant's vision he could see a spacious room with vibrantly colored walls with different beautiful patterns drawn on them and some paintings hung about on the walls, this room was not divided into sections by walls as everything was encompassed in one single room, an area to prepare ones own food, a sitting area with chairs and a small table that looked comfortable to sit on, a huge bath with steam coming out just waiting for someone to soak in it, and a large bed with fine linen could all be seen as one entered the room these places were far apart from each other but not to the extent of being sparse.
As an awakened, Oliphant would not need to use any of these things in the long run as he could use spells to do everything and quell his hunger or sleep but he was not at this level at the moment so these things in the room still had some use, the only irregularity in this room was a door that seemed to not fit into the room as it had complicated patterns etched onto it, this was the secret room Oliphant requested. Oliphant put down his beer jug and headed straight for this door as he scrutinized the engravings on it for a few minutes "Mhm another enchantment, this one seems to be one that seals and conceals this room from outside interferences unlike the one on the ship which only concealed us, but even so the one on the ship was more high level than this one as its inscriptions could not be seen with the naked eye like this one here. " he thought as he then tried to push it open, before his hand could touch it, it opened on its own.
The room was completely dark, as light from outside shined in, Oliphant saw what was inside, he saw a straw mat in the middle of the room and a bit further from the mat a table with drawers, on it was was empty potion bottles, sheep skins, feather pens, ink bottles and clean metal tools that looked like they could be used for torture, they ranged from all kinds of knives, scalpels, hammers and needle like objects of different sizes. One side of the wall in this room was a completely smooth mirror that reflected the room itself.
"Nice, it even has tools I can use and probe Zakia's arrangements he claimed to have made on this body, it's a good place to contemplate Spells too, its also...peaceful, but first let me bath first." he said to himself as he went out of the room, the door behind him shut itself.
He quickly slipped in a out of the bath as he went back in the dark room, he lit a candle and took the tools that seemed to be for torture and sat down on the mat as he faced the mirror wall and removed the top shirt he was wearing allowing his chest to lay bare, many patterned scars that seemed to form an enchantment inscription or spell array were on his body, these were made by Zakia in the cave a few months ago. Oliphant picked a scaple like tool and pressed it against one of the scars that traveled from the top of his chest area to his navel, he felt a bit of resistance from his hands as he did this, this wound was not life threatening so he could still cut himself even with the seal still active, a stinging pain assaulted him as he got cut but no blood came out.
He was not Zakia afterall withstanding this pain was not an easy task even with his mental fortitude. A dim white glow could be seen from the scar as Oliphant pressed down the scalpel until it reached the end of scar at the navel. The white light grew even dimmer and finally disappeared, after it did blood started dripping out of the scar as he gritted his teeth, Oliphant quickly took out a bottle with a black substance inside and smeared it on the bleeding scar.
This is a concoction that Oliphant came up with while he was in the swamp, by mixing various types of herbs together to form this blood clotting agent as he was frequently injured on his first stages of hunting in the swamp area before he got here, after doing all this Oliphant realized that all the scars on his body started glowing in dim white light and the scar smeared with the blood clotting agent glowed in resonance and healed itself, this was the moment that Oliphant was waiting for, as he immediately went after a scar on his forearm, he pressed the scalpel on it as it was glowing.
Oliphant had reached his limit with enduring the pain as he weakly cut through the scar from his elbow joint down to his wrist after this the light got snuffed out after this action, crimson blood gushed out, but this time the blood flowed out for a longer period before the scar lit up again and glowed and started healing itself. Oliphant had been trying to undo the sealing spell Zakia had placed onto him.
While he was at the swamp he realized that the beasts there could injure him and the scars wouldn't glow he had to apply his concoction to stop the bleeding and bandage it but if he inflicted harm unto himself the seal would activate to heal those wounds. His little experiment of cutting himself right now was to find a loophole in the spell to see if he could interfere with its functions and ultimately destroy it.
Oliphant was not happy about being in this world and occupying the body of another but as he adjusted to his situation as time passed, deep down he had come to a conclusion that his purpose in coming here was to kill Zakia, meaning himself, he knew he had to do it because if not Zakia will cause utter destruction and chaos to the world with the way he did things to reach his goals. His display at the village had shown him enough, he felt like if he did not do it many more horrifying scenes would happen and he wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
Even though he had no attachment to anything or anyone in this world his sense of justice as a cop could not allow him to leave things be, and just die at Zakia's hands whilst innocent people die outside, as he stood and watched, he told himself he was going to to everything in his power to stop him. By first and foremost destroying this seal on him and secondly while trying to do this, disrupt any plans Zakia may be cooking up to delay his rise in strength.
Oliphant had thought about just going around and provoke people and get himself killed but what if this was Zakia's motive to use him to lure strong enemies at him and use them to increase his strength? Zakia had clearly show that he could do this when he killed the three colored mask disciple so Oliphant wasn't willing to take the risk to do this, as it may backfire and he himself becoming the cause and great help to Zakia's evil ambitions and cause the deaths of innocent people.
Oliphant was now drained of strength after this ordeal of self mutilation so he took off all the clothes he was wearing as they were stained in blood and changed into clean ones then left the secret room. It was night time now, in his room he found that the information he had requested was delivered and on the table, with the food he had ordered and did not finish during the day. He went through the information and found information about the Valley of Sirens as a place, and how it's hierarchy is distributed along with its general political situation on who holds what position and their roles and so on and so forth.