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 sure I was still on the right

direction, and all we needed to

a blue line on the map

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

got

a couple of more times, I nodded my head

"You've figured things out?"

wrong, we should be able to arrive

"Alright..."

...

this is

"Yep"

a large bent tree, Kevin and I sat down

sun had already started to set and night

dimensional space I handed one

"Here"

"Thanks"

bar, Kevin quickly opened it and took big bites out of it. Looking at the cave hidden

this

"Munch...munch...Yep"

the energy bar in my mouth, I quickly nodded my head. After walking 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,

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

off to

"Alright, let's go"

whilst recuperating some of the energy we spent

nodded his

"Okay"

two of us walked through the

Kevin at the front and me at the back. With Kevin's overwhelming abilities, he should be able to take care

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

hand, I couldn't help but

wasting time-fighting monsters when you

...

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

path should we

immediately pointed towards

"The fifth one"

was confident with my answer as from the moment we entered

Moreover...

"Stop"

"huh?"

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

as you turn left,

slightly and glancing downwards, towards my

first...the safest and most efficient way to get rid of them would be for

midsentence, Kevin couldn't help but look

are you talking

brow, I nonchalantly

what will happen and what you

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

head, I glanced at

"I'm reading?"

read when

"huh?"

I waved the red book in