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"

rock. I squinted my eyes and made

headed in the right direction, and all we needed

map slightly, I traced a blue line

largest tributary and from there go hike up until an oddly bent tree

I've got it, follow

the map a couple of more times, I nodded

"You've figured things out?"

should be able to arrive

"Alright..."

...

this is the

"Yep"

in front of a large bent tree, Kevin and I sat down on the ground and

to set and night was

of energy bars from my dimensional space I handed one to Kevin

"Here"

"Thanks"

opened it and took big bites out of it. Looking at the cave hidden behind the tree, he couldn't

this the

"Munch...munch...Yep"

for 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 book as a reference point, I

'Wrong direction' and with me seeing this in the book, I was able

to

"Alright, let's go"

whilst recuperating some of the energy we spent hiking all the way here, standing

nodded his head

"Okay"

two of us

should be able to take care of any monster that showed up before us, and I, with my sword art, could swiftly deal

if I was planning on doing anything. In reality, there really shouldn't be

hand, I couldn't

point of wasting time-fighting monsters

...

walking for a while, we stopped at a fork road. There were eight paths to choose from

should we

pointed towards the fifth

"The fifth one"

confident with my answer as from the moment we entered the

Moreover...

"Stop"

"huh?"

Kevin's shoulder to stop him, ignoring the confusion in his face, I placed my

you turn left, two-horned sheep will immediately attack

and glancing downwards, towards my red

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

Kevin couldn't help

are you talking

my brow,

you what will happen and what you should be doing

what I don't get is how you know all of

glanced at

"I'm reading?"

when there's nothing

"huh?"

waved the