The Author's POV

If nothing had changed then the sword art should be located a couple of kilometers behind the Clayton ridge.

It took me 5 hours to hike all the way down the mountain, and a further 10 hours to reach the approximate area of where the sword art was located.

A large forest that spammed over several kilometers appeared before my view, and as I reached the entrance of the forest, without even thinking twice I chose to enter.

Although I was exhausted from constantly moving all day, I decided to grit my teeth and continue my journey.

Some might say I was too impatient with regards to how I was neglecting my body in search of cheat items, but I beg to differ. Not only was I reincarnated inside a world where the weak were prey to the strong, but in the near future, if one was not strong enough, only death awaited them.

If I want to be strong enough in hopes to overcome the certain death flags that awaited me, my only option was to increase my strength as much as possible.

Every minute that I saved was a minute I could use to train myself.

Despite being dark outside my vision was fairly unaffected, partly due to my improved body condition which was all due to the miraculous fruit I had previously eaten. The only problem was the fact that I was in the middle of a forest. So even if my visibility was clear it was still hard to make out what was in front of me.

"If I don't remember wrong there should be a river nearby"

My current goal as of now was to look out for a river that directly flowed from the highest peak of the Clayton ridge.

'For thy that seek the way of the sword follow the road flowing through the highest peak'

When the protagonist was clearing a dungeon he stumbled across three ancient scrolls that were neatly laid next to each other, and the content of one of the scrolls had those precise words inscribed on them.

At first, the protagonist didn't understand the meaning of the words in the scroll, but eventually with the aid of one of his companions he managed to figure out the meaning of those words. Sadly by the time he had figured out what the contents of the scroll were about, it was already too late as the protagonist had already learned the [Levisha style] sword art.

But this was perfectly fine with me as I really liked the [Keiki style]

In simple terms, the scroll was telling the protagonist to follow the river coming from the highest peak of the Clayton ridge. The word 'road' accompanied by 'flowed' referred to a river and 'highest peak' referred to the highest mountain within the human territory which was in the Clayton ridge.

And right now I was looking for that exact river.

It didn't take long for me to find the river, but by the time I found it I was really exhausted. I think I've been at it for more than 18 hours at this point. No matter how much I wanted to continue, my body would just refuse to listen to me, and thus l was left with no choice but to camp near the river.

These past two days could probably add up to the total amount of exercise I've done in the last decade of my life. Never before had I done this much physical activity, even if I had condensed mana and my body could keep up, I don't think the same could be said for my mental state...as I felt my thought process diminish with every passing second I continued moving.

The first thing I did once I arrived at the river was to immediately refill my water bottle. I have been drinking moderately to save water, but it was a needless worry.

Title : Compressed water bottle

Rank : (G+)

Description : Water bottle with the ability to store up to 50 liters of water without affecting the weight

I mean, this water bottle could store up to 50 liters of water.

Wasn't that totally awesome?

Before leaving for the Clayton ridge, I picked up this little baby at the train station, and I couldn't say I was dissatisfied with it.

Not only could it hold up to 50 liters of water, but thanks to its advanced technology it could also reduce the weight of the contents by a factor of 10, meaning that a filled water bottle would only weigh 5kg.

what was the point of carrying a bottle

thing that most shocked me about the water bottle

cost me 20

currency that was used in this world and it stood for Union, which was the current association overlooking humanity, besides the central government that was an alliance

organization in the human domain, which only the central government

challenge the authority of the union as it would spell permanent doom if they clashed against them. The union has the highest number

was not the fact that they

No

It was their leaders.

heads of

the power that far surpasses S rank, breaking through to the legendary

out of all of them, 7

single-digit ranker in the Hero ranking, which depicts the strongest members

system was a system created by the central government and ranks an individual based on their achievements

not only does this bring glory to their name, but appropriate monetary compensation was

cataclysm, humanity has been split into two factions Heroes, and

individuals that were categorized based on the crimes they had

central government has placed a bounty on the head of each villain, and the reward

sign a pact with a demon. That was a pledge to devote their lives to the demons, in which

and by giving power to individuals who were willing to follow their command for the sake of power, they successfully managed to

eons allowed demons to propel themselves into becoming a dominant race across

an organization such as the

but if I needed more money

mother a father and a little sister who was only two years old. More importantly, apparently, my father was the guild master of

two things. It was either too insignificant to the plotline, or that my reincarnation has had a butterfly effect on the story and thus created Galxicus. I honestly prefer the first

then proceeded to press a small button on top of the cube

-Sham!

enlarged into a large blue tent that was around

my eyes I couldn't help but let

Title : Compressed tent

Rank : (G+)

2 meters squared tent can be erected

It's so cool.

the world I lived in I would totally go camping. I mean I could literally set up

it was made from the skin of a blood-curling bat a G-ranked beast, it was far more durable than normal plastic and some could say it was comparable to some metals in

and closed my eyes. I was so exhausted that I

form of an energy bar, I continued my journey towards the 5-star martial manual by

the other hand, was that I had no idea

for being lazy. When I was writing the traveling scenes I completely left out the important information such as how long the protagonist walked or sometimes I even skipped that

area. But that was also useless because some areas were so big that it would take me years to explore. Moreover, I also excluded the dangers lurking around the area, making the chances of finding the cheat item

thrown inside

a strange rock before me. The rock was oddly shaped and its outline resembled that of a samurai that held a sword on top of its head. I say resembled, but it was currently covered under moss and vines, making so that if one did not look carefully they would've never been able to spot

course, I knew why it looked that way, as it wasn't actually a rock but a statue in

the statue slowly deteriorated making it look like an oddly shaped rock to anyone

a small

now we