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 right

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

slightly, I traced a blue line on

to walk along the river all the way until we find the largest tributary and from there go hike

I've got

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

"You've figured things out?"

we should be able to arrive there in about half a

"Alright..."

...

is

"Yep"

Kevin and I sat down on the ground and recuperated some

started to set and

I handed one to Kevin

"Here"

"Thanks"

opened it and took big bites out of it. Looking at the cave hidden behind the tree,

is 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

had to say, future me was really smart. Whenever I went in the wrong direction I would always just shout 'Wrong direction' and

off to you future

"Alright, let's go"

whilst recuperating some of the energy we spent

Kevin nodded his head

"Okay"

the two of us

to take care of any monster that showed up before us, and

doing anything. In reality, there really shouldn't be

book in my hand, I

wasting time-fighting monsters when you can just

...

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 at me

path should

pointed towards the fifth

"The fifth one"

from the moment we entered the

Moreover...

"Stop"

"huh?"

to stop him, ignoring the

as you turn left, two-horned sheep will immediately

slightly and glancing downwards, towards

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

me off midsentence, Kevin couldn't help

are you

brow, I

I'm just telling you what will happen and what you should

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

my head, I glanced at

"I'm reading?"

you read when there's nothing

"huh?"

Kevin in confusion, I waved the red book in his