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

and all we needed to do

map slightly, I traced a blue line on the map stopping until a certain

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 right behind

got it, follow

the map a couple of more times, I

"You've figured things out?"

if nothing goes wrong, we should be able to arrive there in about half

"Alright..."

...

this is the

"Yep"

a large bent tree, Kevin and I sat down on the ground and recuperated

had already started to set and

a couple of energy bars from 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 tree, he couldn't help but

this the

"Munch...munch...Yep"

the instructions that I had written in my novel, I was quickly able to find the right

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

to

"Alright, let's go"

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

nodded

"Okay"

us walked

front and me at the back. With Kevin's overwhelming abilities, he should be able to take care of any monster that showed up before us, and I,

if I was planning on doing anything. In reality, there really

the book in my hand, I couldn't

time-fighting monsters when you

...

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

path should

immediately pointed towards the

"The fifth one"

the moment we entered the cave, I knew exactly where

Moreover...

"Stop"

"huh?"

five minutes, placing my hand on Kevin's shoulder to stop him, ignoring

left, two-horned

towards my

sheep, the female sheep will wait from behind whilst the male sheep will be the one that will attack you first...the safest

me off midsentence, Kevin couldn't help but look

are you

my brow,

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

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

my head, I glanced at Kevin

"I'm reading?"

can you read when

"huh?"

at Kevin in confusion, I waved the red book in