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?"

after a bit of thought,

"A core?"

"Yeah"

-Spurt!

any attention to Kevin and turned my attention back towards the sheep. Either

hard at dissecting the horned sheep, Kevin wiped

If you find one you can keep it. Take it as

"Thanks"

thanked him. However, that was merely a fake smile

bastard. Screw you and your

could literally purchase any type of monster core that he

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

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

thought about it, the more I couldn't help

world was I thinking when I wrote the

I would keep all the spoils from the

-Slash! -Slash!

so I tried to look for any sign of a core. However, after pretty much dissecting the whole sheep, I could only bitterly smile as I

"Find anything"

"Nope..."

the shoulder, Kevin

"Better luck next time"

to curse at

Wasn't worth the energy.

have a

into the cave, I urged for him

back in his scabbard, Kevin nodded his

"Alright..."

...

my hand on Kevin's shoulder once again,

"Hm?"

"Stop for a second..."

the ground, closing my right eye as I measured the distance in front of me, I took a

-Tlack!

-Swoooosh! -Swoooosh! -Swoooosh!

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..."

deep into the bedrock for a second, I urged Kevin

were poison-coated arrows that could kill even a ranked user if not

"..."

by the current happenings,

first time this had happened. In fact, this was already the fourth time that Ren

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

was almost like he could see the

the world

grew. He really couldn't get a read on him

gave up. His main focus right now was the five-star sword art. Everything else came

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

really wouldn't be any issues regardless of how strong the monsters

were monsters, I would quickly instruct him on what to do and thereafter following my instructions

say so myself, we really worked

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

at Kevin who was quietly following along lost in

to the main area of the dungeon, so