W.R. Eternal: Been busy today. Sorry for evening Saturday release.

Chapter 2: New Immortal

"About time you came down," a boy grumbled as Wilbert entered the dining room beside the kitchen.

"Joey?" Wilbert gasped, seeing his younger brother so....young.

"My baby has come of age. Seventeen at last," a woman in her late thirties smiled as she put pancakes on the table. Her name was Marissa, and was his mother.

"Of age? What does that mean?" Wilbert frowned.

"It's here," a man's voice called from the front door as he entered. He was six foot two inches and had a muscular build. In his hands was a small package in black wrapping.

"You get the serum only when you are seventeen. It awakens the magical energy inside you that your body has been absorbing since you were born," Marissa answered as she opened the package and took out a syringe. She siphoned the liquid inside a separate sealed bottle and it emptied as its contents filled the syringe.

"What is that?" Wilbert frowned as his dad rolled up Wilbert's right sleeve and cleaned the arm with alcohol.

"This, Will, is humanity's hope. It has kept us alive after the fall of the Modern Era," Marissa answered as his dad tied a rope around his arm to reveal a vein on his arm opposite the elbow. "Should it be successful, you will gain a power people only dream of. It will feel strange, but bear with it."

"Mom, what are you doing?" Wilbert's eyes widened in alarm as she pierced his arm with the needle and emptied the bluish green liquid in the syringe into his body. His dad began to hold him down as Wilbert's body began to spasm.

"Big brother!" Katie cried but was hugged tightly from behind by Joey.

"It is okay, sis. This is part of the process," Joey soothed and watched Wilbert intently. In two years, he would undergo the same process.

A bright bluish green light shined from Wilbert's eyes first. Then, the same light illuminated the room from his mouth. William let go as Wilbert's body stopped moving, Wilbert's face directed at the wall. Marissa was recording the process on camera as she was required to by law. She had to provide evidence that the serum was used and not kept.

In Wilbert's room, the strange photo changed. Around the right hand was no longer white wind but a dragon claw made of rocky scales extending past the elbow. Shards of rocks also seemed to circle Wilbert's body akin to an ice ring gravitating around Saturn. Three spheres of black and dark purple lightning also gravitated above his right hand. A comet covered in red energy could be seen hurling out of the shattered moon in the top left corner of the frame heading toward the right.

Back in the dining room, the bluish green light began to die down as it branded several runes in his mind. Will's body stilled as he gained the skill Earth Spike and the ability to create the lightning spheres in the picture. Currently, he could only create one. If he could create all three, they could combine to create a triangular energy shield or a powerful lightning drill.

"It was successful!" William cried with joy as azure magical energy swirled around Will and formed white silver tattoos on the back of his right hand all the way to a little past the elbow. "The Mithril's Mark is there! Will is an immortal now."

"What am...I?" Will groaned as he awoke. "Why call me Will? That is my nickname."

"That is your birth name of course. What Wilbert? Wait, who cares anyway. You are an immortal. The more you kill monsters, magical beasts, and demons, the more powerful you become. Every immortal gains at least one to three abilities. You gained two according to this scanner," William answered as he took the a device from the package and used it on Will.

"I'll take the result and the recording to the administration office," Marissa nodded and left with the scanner.

"My boy, an immortal! Great! Wonderful. I wonder how Marissa's Jung Clan would react now?" William cheered and hugged his son briefly but tightly. "My family was not from a long line of immortals like your mom, but I do have my father's magical grade ring. It contains an ability called Black Iron Spear Field. It can create numerous piercing spears from the ground around you. The ability can be used four times a day and fully recharges

every sunset."

"This ring can do that?" Will sighed with wonder as he wore the steel ring with a triple black spear symbol on his left middle finger next to the storage ring.

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"I don't get anything?" Joey asked, jealous.

"You'll get something from your mom's Jung Clan. They're bound to restore familial relations once your big brother shines as a immortal. Stop acting like a brat and go to school with your sister," William snapped.

"Sorry dad," Joey mumbled, knowing his jealousy got the better of him. Will stared at Joey, relieved and disappointed that the younger Joey was very similar to the one who accidently caused his death.

As his siblings left, Will noticed a bluish green light escape his left arm and consolidate into a sword. Information popped into his mind saying that the magical energy in his left arm was already wakened and that the item was the result of the leftover energy.

The sword had a silver pommel with an image of a coiling, bluish green Chinese dragon. The sword's hilt was black with a dark azure metal blade. The triangular blade had white etchings near its edges. It was modeled after a Tang Han Dynasty sword.

Information about the sword imprinted into his mind. It was certainly a high grade magical item and was restricted to him. If not in use, it became a black string bracelet on the around his right wrist with a silver plate. On the stone would be the same emblem on the sword's pommel.

Azure Dragon Fang: a magical sword able to turn into an ordinary bracelet with no magical signature. Indestructible, ever-sharp, and will never lose its shine. Contains skill: Mad Dragon Assault. Restriction: Will Lu.

"Whoa. What an awesome item," Will grinned as he admired the bracelet now on his wrist. He held his left hand out and gasped as a two inch sphere of dark purple and black lightning hovered over his hand. His father let him experiment his new powers in the backyard when his mother came home.

"We're in luck. Sword Cloud Sect is recruiting in a few days. We don't have to wait long, but it doesn't give Will much time to practice," Marissa sighed and turned to William. "We need to talk. We need to tell your clan Will became an immortal....and mine need to be told as well."

"No. No way! They abandoned us. They didn't approve our love and cast us both out. I will not have them involved with any of my sons and our daughter. Especially now that Will has become an immortal, there is a high chance those two will too," William refused as Marissa pulled him inside.

"Finally. They left," Will said and took out his sword. Will realized he had a third skill, but his parents didn't discover it. Will guessed it had to do with his left arm.

Will held his sword with both hands and slashed downward. Water covered his sword and blasted out, creating a ten foot long fissure on the ground. A mist formed around the fissure before dissipating. It was as if the oceans were angered by the land and cut it with its waves. The skill was called Earth Breaker and was definitely a powerful skill. Water so concentrated into sharpness that it cut the earth? How else could such a skill be described?

Will couldn't risk discovery of his skill. He quickly stomped the ground and used his earth skill: Earth Spike. It took fifteen uses of the skill to cover up the fissure he made. He went back inside the house and his dad finally joined him in the living room after a heated argument with someone on the phone.

"You alright dad?" Will asked. Back on his Earth, his family had great relationships with their relatives. Seeing his family so divided really hit home that Will did not simply go back in time. That and the existence of magic and immortals.

"Take this," William said and gave his son a black wooden hunting bow and a quiver full of black iron arrows. "This quiver magically duplicates the arrows inside which are custom made to withstand magical energy. I'm glad you took archery. It should serve you well in the hunt outside the walls."

"What is out there on the other side of those walls?" Will asked.

"Magical beasts, mutated life forms that became monsters, and demons. When you join the immortal sect, you'll be required to go on missions to hunt down those dangerous creatures out there. You cannot live the ordinary life you've been living until now. You know that, right?" William asked sternly.

"I realized it when I woke up this morning," Will said silently. "If going to the sect increases my chance of survival, so be it."

"Good. Be sure to practice your archery. I know immortals prefer close combat, but man hunted beasts with bows and spears long before they learned to make swords," his father nodded.