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 map on a rock. I squinted

I'm not wrong, we are actually headed in the right direction, and all we needed to do is walk for a couple of

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

there go hike up

got

I nodded my head and urged Kevin to

"You've figured things out?"

if nothing goes wrong, we should be able

"Alright..."

...

this is

"Yep"

front of a large bent tree, Kevin and

already started to set and night

of energy bars from my dimensional space I handed

"Here"

"Thanks"

opened it and took big bites out of it. Looking

is this

"Munch...munch...Yep"

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,

shout 'Wrong direction' and

to

"Alright, let's go"

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

Kevin nodded his head and stood

"Okay"

of us walked

With Kevin's overwhelming abilities, he should be able to take care of any monster that showed up before us, and I, with my

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

my hand, I

monsters when you can just

...

to choose from and they each looked identical. Turning around, Kevin

path should

I immediately pointed towards the fifth

"The fifth one"

I was confident with my answer as from the moment we entered the cave, I knew exactly where to

Moreover...

"Stop"

"huh?"

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

soon as you turn left,

downwards, towards my

male sheep will be the one that will attack you first...the safest and most efficient way to get rid of them would be for you to

couldn't help but look at me

what are you talking

my brow,

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

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

my head, I glanced at Kevin in

"I'm reading?"

read when there's nothing in your

"huh?"

in confusion, I waved the