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.

that last feature was a must as...I mean what was the point of carrying a bottle that could hold up to 50 liters of water when you couldn't even

shocked me about the water bottle wasn't its amazing technology, no it was actually its

cost me

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 between the biggest nations from

organization in the human domain, which only 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

fearsome was not the fact that

No

It was their leaders.

heads of

the power that far surpasses S

rank Heroes in the human domain, and out of all of them, 7

Hero ranking, which depicts the strongest members

system created by the central government and ranks an

motivating individuals to become stronger, as not only does this bring glory to

been

the villains were individuals that were categorized based on

bounty on the head of each

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

they resorted to methods that created internal strife, and by giving power to individuals who were willing to follow their command for the sake of power, they successfully managed to continuously

which has worked for eons allowed demons to propel themselves into becoming

only an organization such as the Union could barely keep the power balance among humanity in

I had 250 U with me, but if I needed more money I could just ask my

father and a little sister

butterfly effect on the story and thus

a small cube from my bag. I then proceeded to press a small

-Sham!

cube enlarged into a large blue tent that

I couldn't

Title : Compressed tent

Rank : (G+)

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

It's so cool.

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

it. Moreover, since it was made from the skin of a blood-curling bat a G-ranked

closed my eyes. I was so exhausted that

after packing up my stuff and eating breakfast in the form of an energy bar, I continued

news was that I knew what I was looking for as I proceeded forwards. The bad news, on the other hand, was that I had no idea how long I needed to walk before finding

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 all together

I only wrote the general area. But that was also useless because some areas were so big that it would take me years to

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

its outline resembled that of a samurai that held a sword on top of its head. I say resembled, but it was

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

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

down I lay a small cloth and

now we