Finding out a secret

Ragna was quite satisfied by the outcome of the situation with the Lian Hong. 'Who knew that Lian Chen loved his son so much, he actually gave up most of his assets.' Because the money problem was solved for now, Ragna headed to the east of Cromer's City to level up, after a five minute sprint Ragna was faced with a mountain. This mountain called the Celestial mountain by the people in the city was said to be the home of terrifying creatures, monsters that can only be subdued by immortals, or so they say. The truth of the matter was there are indeed monsters coming down from the mountain but they were weak, and the mercenaries took care of those.

Still based on Ragna's conjecture, the reason why weak monster come down periodically was because the strong monsters drive them out of the mountain. That would mean there is a bunch of Experience points waiting for him on top of the mountain.

While Ragna was looking at the mountain, an impatient voice sounded behind him. "Big brother did you come all the way here just to look at a mountain?"

When Ragna looked behind him, he saw Elise, and Reki had followed him here. Unlike those supposed masters or the cultivators in this world, Ragna couldn't sense presences, he couldn't understand how to do so, seeing as most of his strength came from the system, and not from his own hard work. So in order for him to sense presences of people hiding, and following him he needed a skill from the system. Yet seeing as he still had the Invincible Barrier, he didn't need to buy the skill to sense presences yet. Even if the opponent he cannot sense attacks, the Invincible Barrier would deal with it, and the attacker might be able to give him O.P points. When the Invincible Barrier points are gone, then he would buy the skill for sensing presences.

"Why did you follow me? I told you guys I needed to do something by myself."

"Yeah, and that sounded so interesting so I followed. Reki on the other hand said your going to practice, and he wanted to watch." Elise said in an upbeat manner, uncaring about Ragna's irritation.

Reki on the other hand hesitated to look at Ragna. When he saw their reactions Ragna could only sigh. "Fine then you can follow, but you need to take care of yourselves."

The three started to climb the mountain by jumping, once they got to a flat portion what awaited them was an attack. A pack of what Ragna could only describe as minotaurs attacked. 'A head of a bull and a body of a man, yup this looks like the minotaurs from greek legends.' Ragna thought while evading the hammer fist of the minotaurs.

They were huge and fast, but still no match for Ragna's group, the only thing surprising about the attack was Reki's skill with a sword, it was almost flawless. There was almost no wasted movements at all. When Ragna saw this, he started to think there was more to the situation Reki was in. If he was this strong how the hell did those weaklings able to bully him?

Ragna and the group continued to climb upward, halfway from the peak, the group noticed a cave. When they entered the cave, they saw two hideous creatures, a six meter lion with a tail of a snake, and a goat head attached to its back. 'What the hell isn't that a chimera!? Is this mountain full of greek mythology monsters?!' Ragna screamed in his mind.

"You two take one, and I'll kill the other one myself." Elise, and Reki nodded their heads as they charged towards the chimera.

The fight same as the minotaurs was easy, these things simply looked scary, but there was no substance, the Magical Beasts were much more of a challenge, and gave better experience. Still they haven't reached the top of the mountain, there might be an unimaginable monster waiting at the top. Ragna thought a bit disappointed by the small experience points given.

The group explored the cave, when they got to the deepest part of the cave, Ragna was pleasantly surprised. Deep inside the cave, there was a hole on the wall which illuminated a hot spring. The reflection of the sunset on the hot spring made it look magical.

Ragna wanted to use it to take a bath, because ever since he came to this world, he hasn't had an actual bath. The way most of them clean themselves in this world, by Ragna's knowledge was by a bucket of water, and a towel.

That was it, Ragna who came from the modern world had certain standards for a bath, so once he saw the hot springs he wanted to cry.

"Okay then let's take a bath." Elise was still a brat, without the proper assets of a woman to attract Ragna's sense of shame, and Reki in his eyes was still a guy who looked like a girl.

When Elise heard Ragna, she without any shame undressed, and entered the hot spring. Reki on the other hand, was trying to run away.

"Where are you going Reki, no need to be ashamed we're both guys, and Elise is just a little brat." Ragna caught Reki, and was pulling him towards the hot spring.

"How about we use the hot spring after the full moon?... I think it's more relaxing without the moon staring at you." Reki was spouting nonsense as he was worriedly looking at the setting sun. Ragna on the other hand found Reki's reaction strange, also he didn't notice that their was going to be a full moon tonight. 'Reki seems to be very worried about a full moon, I wonder why?'

While Ragna was thinking of the reason why Reki was being weird, he still forcefully pulled him towards the hot spring. The sun was finally being replaced by the moon, that was when Ragna felt that Reki's hand was becoming smoother. When Ragna turned around to look at Reki, what he saw was the most surprising thing he saw today. Reki was teary eyed, but this time her skin looked way smoother, nothing much changed in the way she looked except that her adams apple disappeared, also now she had boobs, and her body's curves got even tighter.

"Umm, Reki?..." Ragna and Elise who was in the hot spring bathing looked at Elise confused and shocked by her transformation.

"Reki you're a girl?..." That was all Ragna could say before he was frozen on the spot.