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"

on a rock. I squinted my eyes and made sure

are actually headed in the right direction, and all we needed to do

a blue line

and from there go hike up

I've got

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

"You've figured things out?"

be able to arrive there in about

"Alright..."

...

is the

"Yep"

tree, Kevin and I sat down

started to set and night

my dimensional space I handed one to Kevin and opened

"Here"

"Thanks"

took big bites out of it. Looking at the cave hidden behind the

is this the

"Munch...munch...Yep"

half a day and following the instructions that I had written in my novel, I was quickly able to find the right location. Moreover, now that Kevin was here, using my

'Wrong direction' and with me seeing this in the book, I was able to discard that path and quickly find the

off to you future

"Alright, let's go"

whilst recuperating some of the energy we spent hiking all the

pants, Kevin nodded his head and

"Okay"

the two of us

With Kevin's overwhelming abilities, he should be able to take care of any monster that showed up before us, and I, with my sword art, could swiftly deal with the mob-like

doing anything. In reality, there really shouldn't be much for me to

in my hand, I couldn't

time-fighting monsters when you

...

stopped at a fork road. There were eight paths to choose from and they each looked identical. Turning around, Kevin glanced at me as

path should we

hesitation, I immediately pointed

"The fifth one"

the

Moreover...

"Stop"

"huh?"

for five minutes, placing my hand on Kevin's shoulder to stop him, ignoring the confusion in his face,

left, two-horned sheep will immediately attack

slightly and glancing downwards, towards my red book, I

that will attack you first...the safest

off midsentence, Kevin couldn't

wait, what are

my brow, I nonchalantly

just telling you what will happen and what you should be doing to quickly resolve

get that part, what I don't get is how you know all of this...moreover,

I glanced

"I'm reading?"

when

"huh?"

Kevin in confusion, I waved