My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World
Chapter 341: Magical Hot Springs

Chapter 341: Magical Hot Springs

The following day, we all woke up early in the morning to resume our walk to the peak of the mountain.

Vespera said she was going to keep watch during the night, but when we walked out of the shack, we saw her sleeping beside the bears, using their red fur as a pillow.

I found the scene pretty funny, so I quickly made a picture of it on a piece of fabric using magic before they got up.

After walking along the mountain range for a few hours, we reached a second plateau, which had a massive hot spring on the side with steaming hot water and MP oozing from it.

The momma bear told us that those were the "hot water puddles" that she talked about, which would improve a person’s MP pool by bathing in it.

<Magical Hot Spring

Retains vast amounts of MP.

Improve an individual’s MP pool permanently, only once.

Possesses healing properties.>

"Huh, interesting..." I muttered after inspecting the water.

The bear explained everything a bit more in detail, which was translated by Vespera, who was the one communicating with the momma bear.

Each hot spring pool would give us an MP boost, but they only worked once. So, if we came here a month later and bathed in the same place, it wouldn’t have any effect on us other than the healing properties.

*ahem* "Alright, then. I suppose we should take a quick bath before we keep moving..." I said, feeling a little embarrassed.

Still, when I turned to look at Melina, she was already taking off her clothes while standing on the border of the pool.

"Come on, we can’t wait here for too long," she said, covering her breasts with her arm as she tested the water’s temperature with the tip of her foot.

"Blah, bleh, bluh..." I uttered an unintelligible mess as my mind went completely blank after seeing her naked.

’I’ve seen my wife naked plenty of times. Get it together, man!’ I thought, using both of my hands to slap myself back to reality.

I could literally feel my cheeks getting red like a tomato, but still, I took off my clothes and got inside the water with Melina, which felt quite relaxing.

With both of our bodies sunk into the steaming water, Melina and I looked at each other, and we both blushed like we were some sort of teenagers in their first relationship.

Luckily, my companions also wanted to bathe in the hot spring, so a naked Vespera joined us a few seconds later. Still, even though Vespera was extremely attractive, she didn’t give me the same embarrassing feeling as Melina did.

Yoru also joined us in his wolf form, along with the momma bear and her cub, who had already taken a bath there but just wanted to accompany us.

After half an hour, I could feel the MP that coursed through my body had gone up by a very small margin, which signaled the end of our bath.

Once we dried up and put on our clothes, we kept moving towards the peak.

The momma bear told us there were three more hot spring pools on the way before reaching the end, so we decided to get to all of them on that same day.

We ran for a while until we reached the second hot spring, where we took another thirty-minute bath before we kept moving.

In the end, it took us an entire day to get to all of the hot spring pools, setting foot on the last plateau before the peak right as nighttime fell upon us.

Since we were going to be camping in that final flat area, we built a quick shack using the warm rock of the mountain and prepared some food for everyone.

"You know? I was thinking we should give the bears a name..." I said as we all enjoyed our dinner.

"That might start a familiar contract with them. Just keep that in mind," replied Vespera.

However, I had already thought about that, and I didn’t really mind if the bears became my familiars.

I mean, it would be harder to travel with a massive bear and her cub, but they had been so helpful that I believed I could find a way.

"Hmmm, maybe we should go with the names of mythological gods..." I pondered aloud.

"How about Athena?" I asked, glancing at the momma bear, who looked at me with confusion as she moved her head laterally from side to side.

"Ohh, I like that! And we could name the little one Apollo!" Melina interjected, patting the bear cub on the head.

Suddenly, the two bears roared loudly as their bodies were covered in a gentle mist before dispersing into thin air.

"Welp, you both got a new familiar..." commented Vespera.

"Wait, we both did?" I asked out loud, using my "inspect" spell on the two bears.

<Infernal Bear

Name: Athena

Familiar Contract: Ichiro

Age: 54

Skills: All fire control

MP: 35,000

Titles: Momma Bear.>

<Infernal Bear Cub

Name: Apollo

Familiar Contract: Melina Sephyr

Age: 3

Skills: ...

MP: 5,000

Titles: ... >

The two bears ended up accepting us, but I honestly wasn’t expecting Melina to also make a contract with one of them.

’I guess it makes sense since she was the one who named him...’ I thought.

We spent the night celebrating the addition of two new companions. I even brought out a few bottles of sake that I bought at Kyotora, which left me and Melina quite tipsy.

After we were done with our celebratory dinner, Melina and I stood up to take a bath in the final hot spring.

"Alright. I think it’s time for us to give those two some space..." said Vespera as Melina and I took off our clothes.

"Wha-?" I tried asking, but when I turned around, all of my companions had left the camp.

I couldn’t even feel their presence nearby, and as I kept scanning around, my eyes glanced at Melina’s naked body entering the water, and suddenly, I had forgotten about my companions.

Seeing that it was only the two of us in the steaming hot spring under the sky lit up by the stars, Melina and I made love for the first time in this new world before we returned to our shack to rest.