Chapter 28:Commotion in the Mindscape.
Half an hour ago in Oliphant's concealed room.
After Oliphant got fully accepted by the world he gained access to his mindscape and a bestowal of knowledge by the world from this achievement.
"So this is a Mindscape, the source of power for all spellcasters." Oliphant gasped in wonder and astonishment when he saw this scene.
Crudely explained this place was the imaginary area where the thinking process and spell casting area takes place. An example would be when one closes their eyes and are told to envision an apple in their head, they can see it with their eyes closed but many finer details cannot be seen or explored further even if one tried.
Now with the access to world essence being granted, and together with the transformation of the mind Oliphant has undergone, this imaginary apples' finer details like smell, texture and so on can be emulated since one already has the experience and knowledge of what it's like in real life.
Now this means anything can be found in the Mindscape as long as one has sufficient knowledge and experience of that particular thing.
Oliphant looked at his hands in amazement and touched his face that felt real. The first thing to form would be one's embodiment, therefore the mind becomes its on physical realm with technicality. At the moment he was in mid air wearing the same clothes he is wearing in the real world. This place had no left and right, nor can up and down could be differentiated even the center could not be pinpointed.
Oliphant's Mindscape was divided into two unequal halves at the moment the minor half was bright with many things placed in an unorganized fashion. At one moment there would be a flight of stairs leading to the unknown at other moments, words, numbers, images of people, inanimate objects, flora and fauna and flashes of light could be seen messily merging into each other and separating forming an amalgamation of something indescribable, it was a chaotic scene being ugly but also beautiful at the same time.
It was like that one moment you are asked to guess something and your mind goes blank and you struggle to give an answer and then in your struggle they proceed to give you a useless hint to ease the difficulty and many ideas start flooding your mind as to what the answer may be. This perfectly described what was in front of Oliphant right now.
In this chaos some thoughts stood firm without flashing by or merging with anything else. Oliphant stretched out his hand to touch one of them,he was like an ant standing next to an elephant in front of this opaque diamond-like crystal sphere.
"This crystal sphere seems to contain images inside...these are?!" Oliphant's imaginary body slipped right into the sphere he shook as he got the answer to his question.
These were his memories from his previous life till this very moment, they coiled and winded like a filmstrip, it was contained in in the middle of this crystal sphere coiling and looping around itself like a giant flatworm made of moving pictures. Oliphant saw the filmstrip extend in real time recording itself being discovered by Oliphant, and then proceeding to extend by a small margin.
"Amazing!" Oliphant's was now thoroughly astonished but he also frowned when he saw the extension of the strip cause a bit of space in the crystal to be occupied, there was already little space for his conjured body to maneuver in this sphere, the coiled filmstrip occupied more than half of the space in the crystal sphere.
"In this way it will be very difficult for me to forget anything, recollection of past events will be as easy as breathing now, but it also seems like this crystal cannot store infinite memories. I'll have to find out more about this, if I get the chance." Oliphant pondered.
Oliphant scrolled through some more looking through his past life memories and memories of these past few months in this world for a while, he found out that the more far down the moment or memory was, more time would be needed by the strip to reach the relevant section of the strip even though it took a while when that section of the strip was reach everything could be seen clearly by Oliphant, and soon he exited this crystal sphere with reluctance.
Other than the crystal sphere, a mass of three colored energy sometimes formless, sometimes in the form of a mask also occupied a region of the Mindscape, Zakia had absorbed Bwana a while ago and had his energy essence and blood absorbed by Zakia, but due to the clash in energy types between the two the energy source ended up in Oliphant's section of the Mindscape.
Oliphant had a good guess that there was more of this energy here a while ago but because he had no access to the Mindscape he never knew how much of it was left but now he could completely use it all up without any reservations.
Lastly a black and white book around A5 sized the front was black and the back was white with pages no more than ten was floating quietly in this chaotic place, unaffected by all the commotion around it.
The front panel had a hand symbol imprinted on it that seemed to be pinching on something, the imprint of the hand was pure white on the pitch black surface of the front cover of the book forming a sharp contrast, the back cover had the same design as the front panel with the cover being pure white and the hand pitch black making the book exude a mysterious vibe.
" This book is..." Oliphant took the book that was rotating slowly in the air into his hands and started flipping through it Oliphant could not help but marvel at the realness of everything around him, even the sound of the pages flapping could be heard by him.
Only five pages had details on them, each page had hand signs for half the page and a written incantation of words for the remaining half, and at the back of the page intricately shaped patterns were drawn this held true for all pages except the last one, on seeing this Oliphant immediately thought of the spell array which Zakia had drawn around the village he slaughtered but this time it was smaller and squeezed in this book. Oliphant shuddered lightly upon seeing this.
One page was shining with silver light, another with golden light, while the third page exuded a cold and chilly aura another pulsating in two colors frequently interchanging between black and white and the last page had black-blue patterns on an ink black page with the incantation and hand sign section being completely blank giving it a dreadful air.
" The other spells I used are not in this book though." Oliphant thought as he formed a speculation as to why this was the case. He did not dwell on these details for long and continued exploring this bright minor half of the place and after a while he came closer to the other place that occupied more than half the Mindscape.
The major half of the Mindscape, Oliphant already had and idea what this dark cloud that covered over fifty percent of the place represented. He saw and heard anguished souls flashing by as he looked at this place.
Indeed this was Zakia's half of the Mindscape and he owned more than half of the place. A formless force stopped the two sections from interfering with each other. Oliphant couldn't help but think ' If Zakia was not here all this space would be occupied by me, how good would that be?' thus this caused Oliphant to form a bold idea in his mind.
But now was not the time to execute it he decided to stay patient. He slowly opened his eyes that shined with brilliance at this moment as he slowly stood up to go downstairs.