The Author's POV

"huuuu..."

Standing on top of two giant furry carcasses, Kevin exhaled as turbid air escaped from his mouth. By the side of his face, a droplet of sweat dripped down from his cheek.

"Good job!"

Looking upwards, I couldn't help but praise Kevin. It only took him two minutes to dispatch two ranked monsters.

Although he had my instructions, it was still a very impressive feat. Something that I, with my strength, could probably not be able to achieve.

...At least not without some preparations.

-Spurt!

Removing his sword from the carcass of one of the two-horned sheep, Kevin jumped down and moved next to me. Arriving before me, looking at me straight in the eyes, Kevin slowly said

"...so it's true"

Taken aback by his sudden action, I couldn't help but ask

"What's true?"

"The fact that you can see the future"

Stopping for a second, I nodded my head.

"Ah...yeah"

I guess you could put it that way.

...With the aid of the book I really could look into the future. Albeit only ten minutes, it was still a small glimpse into the future.

Glancing at Kevin who seemed to be more convinced about his decision, I smiled inwardly.

I guess this worked out in my favor. With the aid of the book, I managed to thoroughly convince Kevin about what I had previously told him. This could probably help me explain a few things in the future when I was planning on scam-keummm, making more deals with him in the future.

"Anyhow, that aside, let's see if there's anything good"

-Spurt!

Walking towards the two-horned sheep, I took out my sword and stabbed it straight towards where their heart was.

"Let's see..."

...I was currently looking for a core.

Because one of the requirements for going to Immorra was a ranked core, I obviously needed to find one.

Therefore, what better way to get one than through monsters that the protagonist killed? With his luck, there was a high chance I could find one today.

Not so far from where I was, staring at me in confusion, Kevin couldn't help but ask

"What are you looking for?"

Snapping my head in his direction, pointing towards the area I was cutting, I rolled my eyes

"Isn't it obvious?"

bit

"A core?"

"Yeah"

-Spurt!

sheep. Either way, even if I didn't find a core, I could

at dissecting the horned sheep, Kevin wiped off the

you can keep it. Take it as extra

"Thanks"

However, that was merely a fake smile on my side

like bastard. Screw

could literally purchase any type of monster core that he wanted. All he had to do was use the shop feature

quests the system granted him, he could still pretty much get whatever core he wanted without going through the hassle of saving money or going

monster cores were valuable, it wasn't enough of a temptation. After all, he wasn't really in need of money as

more I thought about it, the more I couldn't help

was I thinking when I wrote

Kevin and I had an agreement with one another that I would keep all the spoils from the dungeon raid. To which he nodded without hesitation. After all, the

-Slash! -Slash!

horned sheep, for the next ten minutes or so I tried to look for any sign of a core. However, after pretty much

"Find anything"

"Nope..."

in the shoulder, Kevin encouraged

"Better luck next time"

my head, I wanted to curse at him, but I eventually

Wasn't worth the energy.

we still have a lot of distance

further into the cave, I urged

back in his scabbard, Kevin nodded

"Alright..."

...

dungeon, placing my hand on Kevin's

"Hm?"

"Stop for a second..."

right eye as I measured the distance in front of me, I took a step back and

-Tlack!

-Swoooosh! -Swoooosh! -Swoooosh!

the same time the rock hit the ground, multiple sharp and unnatural objects flew to the other side of the wall and impaled themselves onto the hard bedrock

"Alright, let's go..."

that dug deep into the bedrock for a second, I urged

that could kill even a ranked user if

"..."

the current happenings, Kevin followed

already the fourth time that Ren discovered the

enough, the traps that were so well hidden didn't seem to bother Ren one bit as he just nonchalantly triggered them left and

he could see the

the

He really couldn't get a read on

the end, Kevin gave up. His main focus right now was the five-star sword art.

moving forward, around two hours into the dungeon, Kevin couldn't help but finally realize by what I

avoid the danger, there really wouldn't be any issues regardless of how strong

whenever there were monsters, I would quickly instruct him on what to do and thereafter following

so myself, we really worked

occasions during fights. That was whenever there were too many monsters, or when a monster

was quietly following along lost in his own world, I quietly

to the main area of the dungeon, so follow closely