Book 2 Chapter 2: When even 'they' dont know why

Chapter 2: When even 'they' don't know why

After clearing their lungs from the fountain, which confused them as to how it even got there, everyone convened with the group of 'adoring' fans to tell their tale which had gone unseen.

Jaeger left out some bits, and none of the 7 spoke a word of the last bit of time they had in the infinite shop with Q. That was their prized memory, and the things they learned there should only be known by them.

Someone walked over to the fountain and confirmed the portal had been officially closed, after several high fives everyone left back to the magic school or where they were staying in the tavern. Unknowingly, the 'students' had been split into groups to keep watch over the fountain even when the feed cut out when 6 of the 7 players walked through the shops door in the demi plane. The feed cut out not long after that for the sole player left, Jaeger, when he had travelled to the past.

Jaeger waved away the last of the group slamming him with questions, and headed over to the god Craft.

"Hey!...oh hey…that cape…you lucky…" Craft muttered as he looked over Jaeger.

"Huh?" Jaeger lit up a smoke and titled his head.

"Nothing…that mask on your waist too…Spectre has chosen you for some reason…hmm…what do you need?" Craft smiled while eyeing the mask deeply. To him, he acted like the mask was carrying Jaeger and not the other way around.

"First…why do you look at the mask that way? Answer in one sentence." Jaeger puffed out while tapping the mask with his other hand that wasn't holding the smoke.

"You thought I was the god of craft right? Everyone does…however…I was merely a student of Spectre in the art of craft for maybe a year…he…is the god of crafting…a lot of things." Craft looked down at the counter in front of him and closed his eyes for a while.

"I…see…there seems to be a lot…I don't know either…I know what I'd like though."

"Yeah, what is it?" Craft took a silent breathe, and then opened his eyes to look up at Jaeger.

"A new lantern" He smiled.

"Lantern…yeah didn't you have one before at the waist?" Craft rubbed his chin.

"Yes…and…I left it for a kid to use. I asked for it back, but actually left it in the kids dorm…well right outside the door, they should've found it by now. I thought twice about it but…it gave those kids some confidence, so I thought it would be okay. Magical or not…" Jaeger left out a chuckle.

"Hmm…lantern huh, what kind did you have in mind?" Craft blinked once, and 3 other 'Crafts' came out from the back room with lanterns and lights hung from their arms.

"Oh…not like a flashlight, a little more old timey…and of course magical."

Craft nodded, "I see…I see…you want something custom, take it as a gift from me."

"Sure, a hooded lantern with an octagonal hood top…match the frames of unbreakable glass down to a base that is a half sphere, have a circle inside the bowl like half spheres inner most middle point. Leave a hollow space below that and that of the half spheres base…for…the magicalness?

Whats the word?" Jaeger tapped his temple.

"An essence receiving and evocation igniting point, an array system for the utilization of foreign elements and the conversion of those elements to source forms." Craft spoke out from his 4 forms at the same time.

"Yeah that…" Jaeger nodded.

Craft chuckled, "Sure no problem…8 sides huh…and what, you want it to store and utilize fire energy?"

"Actually, if you could I'd like it to be able to utilize light AND fire."

"You met some spookies didn't ya, and found that energy emitted by magical means can scramble them…and thus want a lantern with more than one type of essence use. Fine…haha…" Craft nodded to the triplets beside him, they shrugged and left into the back room again.

"Give me like an hour or so on that one, ill perfect it…maybe give it some other uses."

Jaeger nodded and smoked the cig in his hands with Craft before leaving.

With a sigh Jaeger looked around the surroundings, noting new people coming and going in the fog as well as new people walking into the tavern. It would seem life had carried on, even while he was gone in the fountain but I guess this was to be expected.

As his eyes landed on the mage tower that Enigma was staying in, a familiar old man was looking down at him from it. Jaeger barely saw the man snap his fingers and then close the window he was looking out of. Rain began to fall from the sky, Jaeger smiled and nodded in thanks before prostrating himself on the ground.

'Nice guy…I gotta go talk to him im guessing…sigh…'

The familiar wet scent of fresh rain poured over his nostrils.

About 10 minutes later Jaeger sat up and walked to the head information center beyond a small gate. This was where he first met the man who gave him the watch, as well as the subordinate of Enigma.

"Hello young adv!...aw, Jaeger I see….oh uh huh…okay…yeah, step through here."

Jaeger muttered in his mind, 'stop reading my damn thoughts' before stepping through the portal that had appeared.

"One…your welcome…two…hello." Enigma looked at the soaked form of Jaeger and waved his hand, casting the water from his body and drying it in less than a second. The water slipped out a window before disappearing below.

"Yeah thanks for the rain…sigh…it took a while." Jaeger pulled over a chair and held his smoke in his hands.

"Whats on your mind?" Enigma waved his hands, and a tea set appeared between them. With a snap, the water boiled and the scent of vanilla chai was let loose out into the air.

"There…is a lot I don't understand about this world Enigma…I learned a lot inside that fountain, and from the shop keeper…it's…a strange world."

"Shop…keeper?...oh my…" Enigma raised a brow.

"Yeah, the shop keeper?" Jaeger looked at him confused.

"You know the different gods yes?" Enigma asked after pouring tea for the two of them, and then lighting up a cigarrete condensed out from the air. Jaeger nodded but lit up his smoke and tried to process his meaning.

"Mind, Body, and Spirit…Psyche, Animus, and Entropy.

Genome, Pan…The man Immortal and the Cosmos Eternal.

Enigma, Spectre….Magic and Power.

Wish, Death, life…The Keeper, The End and the Beginning…

These are the gods of this world, and the gods spread out amongst different planes of existence and universes. They have convened to this place in search of an absolute life."

"Absolute?" Jaeger flicked his cigarrete as his hand stopped the tea from coming to his lips for a second, before drinking it back slowly.

"We all search for a place to convene the powers of infinity…the Man Immortal and Cosmos Eternal search for a place to create the perfect universe, whereas the embodiments of mind, body, and spirit…search for a place to perfect the beings within it. Wish, Death, Life…they are beings that tie in the universes and planes of existence…they exist in all places, all worlds…and places. They search for a place to balance between themselves, to never had to divide from but solely be a part of."

"So…when the 'higher gods' choose this world as the one to convene races from other places…it was to create a state of existence that could house all those things…and the shop keeper I met was Wish. I see…"

"Wish can only be met by chance, and holds the keys to all weapons…skills…powers…boons…not chosen or held by others. He can grant great power, but he also keeps power in check. He keeps the equilibrium as you may have found out…" Enigma sighed and drank his tea, as he brought it from his lips he opened his mouth for a second before sticking his smoke to it and keeping silent while puffing out clouds that roamed around the air like living beings.

"I see…I noticed that…" Jaeger nodded, even the other 6 had noted this deeply.

Enigma sighed, "I didn't think Wish would intervene…but he must have had his reasons…he always does so…when Death or Life are involved. You went to purgatory didn't you, or a world that lives based on the after life?"

"Yes? I thought you already knew this when you sent me in?" Jaeger had a bad premonition.

"No…I didn't." Enigma shook his head.

"What?" Jaegers mouth dropped open, "You didn't know? But you sent me in there?"

"Correct…but also not correct. You see…other than Life and Wish, no other god can perceive those 3…the reason for this is to keep the gods in check as well, only mortals can meet them by chance.

The portals within some of the sanctuaries lead to worlds that Wish, life, and Death, hold sway over.

They are places those 3 want something changed in, for Death…it is to keep the afterlife in check."

"The demi purgatory…I see…" Jaeger pieced together several points he had learned.

"Correct, he unlike Life does not like separate seeds blooming…when Death chooses someone to fix a place, no other choice that person will make will lead them somewhere other then where he intends. They work in mysterious ways haha…ha…"

'Isaiahh Crowell…was used as a medium…that's why his power of seeing the future was used…and boosted…to give a reason to lead me there…fuck…me…that really is mysterious.'

"The…Boon of Mystery, do you know anything about it?" Jaeger asked after a while of sipping tea in silence with Enigma.

"Boon of Mystery…oh wish…even you would do this…the Boon of Mystery is something few have received across time, it is not the Boon of Mystery in its true name, it is called the Boon of Wish. By keeping order, and changing things…based on your choices…causality will gift you something equal in contribution."

*Ding*

"Oh…I see…"

'Boon of Mystery: You have perceived the true name, your boons name shall stay the same, as it is what was chosen when it was given. Choices carry, as do names'

"Yup…you're right…" Jaeger nodded while massaging his temple.

*Puff*

*Fwhoo*

*Puff*

*Fwhoo*

The two smoked in silence, any haze that they created vanished as it sped towards an unknown pulling force in the ceiling. Most likely the powers of Enigma at play.

"Each city will choose ten champions…the universes are vast Jaeger, we are not the only gods here in this world…in fact, only a level of power is required to become a god…what is strange, is that when we usually do things to this world we are spread out as you were told from me and Wish…but this time we were pushed together into this one city…this can only mean that the final creation is being born after many years of struggle. Jaeger, other champions…have powers like yours…not specifically the same…but of the same branch of power"

"So when Isaiahh told me others might have my power…he was speaking of other champions…did Death grant me it?"

"No…he does not grant things like that…Wish…may have given him it, and then given it to this Isaiahh to use and study and change…that power, is one of origin…the neutral origin. Thus you may have noticed the many references to its power being as such…that cape of yours, was the last user cape…and thus…it has binded with you without flaw. Wish may have chosen this to balance your power…but I'm guessing even he may have felt it was too great ah…sigh...so nice…"

"Everyone's been saying that damn…" What would that be, the 9th person to say it was so nice? Wish, the 6 comrades, Craft, and now Enigma.

"Let's upgrade your inter dimension…it will come in handy I promise, that paltry version should be able to be resized now that you have a great medium. It won't be painful either." Enigma threw his smoke out into the air, before it touched the ground it vanished along with the tea set in front of them.

"I swear…if it's going to hurt, just say it's going to hurt." Jaeger stood and backed up several feet in fear from the trauma of the last 'gift.

"Jaeger…" Enigma smiled, "it's only the first bestowal that hurts…besides…you need to find the other 9 champions, and convene your powers. You…I would describe as the archetype champion of the 'The wise man'"

"Archetypes huh" Jaeger mulled over this.

"The man immortal once spoke to myself…and the many gods of a similar…symbolism amongst the populace of the planes…no matter the species…no matter the being…even himself is not exempt from this. Care to hear me explain it before or after the spacial upgrade?" Enigma asked very forwardly, as if this knowledge was needed to be known.

Jaeger took it as a chance for his curiosity to manifest as well as a chance to not go through the 'procedure' just yet, "Tell me now…"

"Sit" Enigma waved his hand and Jaeger was effortlessly pulled forward by an unseen force into a chair before sliding forward to sit in front of Enigma.

"Okay…ill uh sit then…" Jaeger muttered.

"The archetypes are deeply ingrained in every being in every known place, I am not disincluded from this. In fact…the name Enigma stems from this very thing…as does Spectre's name. We are the same…archetype you see, in a sense. I'll try and keep this simple for you…