The Author's POV

Inside of a densely packed forest, two individuals calmly walked through the heavy vegetation. Of the two individuals, one stood at the front looking at a large map made out of paper, whilst behind him, another individual followed him with a confused look on his face.

"Are you sure we're headed in the right direction?"

Scratching my chin, as I looked at the map before me. Tilting the map sideways, with a hint of doubt I responded.

"err...should be?"

Taken aback, Kevin couldn't help but say

"y-ou, don't tell me that we're lost"

"no, well, maybe. But most likely not"

-Smack!

Facepalming, an extended sigh escaped from Kevin's mouth. He was starting to regret his decision...

Not even halfway through the journey and they were already lost. Just what kind of guide was this?

Noticing Kevin's action, I shrugged my shoulders.

In my defense, I didn't have much to work with.

Although I had a general idea of where the dungeon was, well, let's just say that a lot of the important information on how Kevin found the dungeon was skipped in the novel. After all, back then when I was writing this part of the story, I basically directly skipped to the moment Kevin found the dungeon.

...Thus, because of how lazy I was back then, I was currently in a pickle.

Fortunately, I had a few reference points to work with

"A river...a large bent tree and a cave..."

Those were the things I was looking out for.

"Keumm...keumm...can I just ask why you're using a paper map instead of your phone?"

Coughing a couple of times, Kevin glanced at me and asked me something that had been on his mind ever since leaving the small town below.

Looking back at Kevin, brushing my hair to the side I lazily said

"What difference does it make? In the end, with this, I can just save my phone's battery"

Taking out my phone and pointing towards the top right corner, I said

"...Moreover, good luck finding a signal in the middle of nowhere"

Raising his hands in resignation, Kevin said

"Alright, do whatever makes you comfortable. I was just curious as I've never seen anyone use paper maps anymore"

Briefly glancing at Kevin, I shook my head and continued to observe the map.

Fair enough.

I would've used my phone if there was a GPS signal that would directly show me the path I had to go...sadly such a thing didn't exist. So, I just chose to use a map as that was what I used to use back on earth.

...I guess old habits never die.

"Let's see"

the ground and placing the map on a rock. I squinted my eyes and made sure I was still on the

direction, and all we needed to do is walk for a couple of more kilometers until

blue line on the map stopping

we are to walk along the river all the way until we find the largest tributary and from there go hike up until an oddly bent tree can be found. The cave of the dungeon should be

got it, follow

map a couple of more times, I nodded my head and urged Kevin

"You've figured things out?"

be able to arrive there in about half a

"Alright..."

...

this is the

"Yep"

bent tree, Kevin and I sat down

to set and night was quickly

couple of energy bars from my dimensional space I handed one to Kevin and opened another one

"Here"

"Thanks"

and took big bites out of it. Looking at

is this

"Munch...munch...Yep"

novel, I was quickly able to find the right location. Moreover, now that Kevin was here, using my book as a

book. I had to say, future me was really smart. Whenever I went in the wrong direction I would always just shout 'Wrong direction' and with me seeing this in the book, I was able to discard that path and quickly

off to you future

"Alright, let's go"

for ten minutes whilst recuperating some of the energy we spent hiking all the way here, standing up, I

pants, Kevin nodded his

"Okay"

us walked through

take care of any monster that showed up before us, and I, with my sword art, could swiftly deal with the mob-like

In reality, there really shouldn't

hand, I couldn't help but

time-fighting monsters when you can just skip

...

road. There were eight paths to choose from and they each looked identical. Turning around, Kevin

path should

immediately pointed towards the fifth

"The fifth one"

as from the moment we entered the cave, I knew exactly where to

Moreover...

"Stop"

"huh?"

shoulder to stop him, ignoring the

soon as you turn left, two-horned sheep will immediately

slightly and glancing downwards, towards my

be the one that will attack you first...the safest and most efficient way to get rid of them would be for you to immediately duck

Kevin couldn't help

wait, what are you

my brow, I nonchalantly

and what you should be doing to

how you know all of this...moreover, what are

head, I glanced at

"I'm reading?"

you read when there's nothing in your

"huh?"

confusion, I waved the red book in