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.

point of carrying a bottle that could hold up to 50 liters of water when you couldn't even

thing that most shocked me about the water bottle wasn't its amazing technology, no it

only cost me

and it stood for Union, which was the current association overlooking humanity, besides

organization in the human domain, which only the

the biggest guilds operating do not dare challenge the authority of the union as it would spell permanent doom if they clashed against them. The union has the highest number of S-ranked heroes at its disposal making it a behemoth that stood at the peak of

especially fearsome was not the fact that they had the most amount of S-ranked Heroes

No

It was their leaders.

heads

that far surpasses S

of them, 7 are part of the Union, making the Union the

head was a single-digit ranker in the Hero ranking, which depicts

central government and ranks an individual based on their achievements and

purpose of motivating individuals to become stronger, as not only does this bring glory to their name, but appropriate monetary compensation

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

were categorized based on

on the head of each villain, and the reward increases

a pact with a demon. That was a pledge to devote their lives to the demons, in which the demon in return grants them part of their

races, in order to weaken their opponents they resorted to methods that created internal strife, and by

worked for eons allowed demons to propel themselves into becoming

internally, only an organization such as the Union could barely keep

with me, but if I

had a mother a father and a little

could only mean 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 option as the second option would mean that

proceeded to press a small button on top of the cube and threw it on the

-Sham!

large blue tent that was around the size

automatically unfold before my eyes I couldn't help

Title : Compressed tent

Rank : (G+)

the skin of a Blood curling bat, a 2 meters squared tent

It's so cool.

go camping. I mean I could literally set up

couldn't help but nod in satisfaction. It was empty but it was really spacious. It could totally fit in more than five people, and more if we were to really push it. Moreover, since 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 terms of durability, making it an

inside the tent and closed my eyes. I was so exhausted that I fell asleep within a couple

after packing up my stuff and eating breakfast in the form of an energy bar, I continued my journey towards the 5-star martial manual by walking alongside the

forwards. The bad news, on the other hand, was that I had no idea how long I needed to walk before finding

at myself for being lazy. When I was writing the traveling scenes I completely left out the important information such as how long the protagonist

the place was. I only wrote the general area. But that was also useless because some areas were

to suddenly be thrown inside of their own novel? Plus, I skipped the traveling scenes because they were

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

wasn't actually a rock but a statue in memory of grandmaster

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

a small cloth and

we