"No, alas. But my sister in Hateno Town might have some idea. I sent her there at one point."

"I'll mark that on my map."

"Ah, that reminds me, you could probably use a map, since you are a foreigner. I will let you borrow one of mine to copy if you wish."

"I was able to generate a map by looking at places I've been and saving recordings from my eyes, but that'll definitely help!"

"The land of Hyrule is large, so perhaps it will help you plan your visits to areas you have yet to see."

She has Paya fetch the map. It looks like the land declared 'Hyrule' is maybe a couple hundred miles across in total.

Hateno Town is southeast, away from where she ventured yesterday, and a slight bit closer to Mount Lanayru than this village is. 

Sparsely populated arable farmland that hasn't been irradiated and only has a slight monster problem. Naomi is reminded of how much Aztech would want to get their hands on this place. 

"That's a good idea. Anything else I should know?"

To be fair, not all of it is arable farmland. There's a large section of desert, some jungle, a lot of mountains and ridges. Though that just raises the question of mining.

"Perhaps you should learn to ride a horse? They are much faster than walking, you know. But that is your choice."

A horse? God, no. ".... I think I'd rather take my chances with a Guardian."

"As you wish... The beacon towers and ancient shrines might be accessible to you as well, if you can control a Guardian. And I think that really is all the information I have to offer at the moment."

"Have a good day!"

Time to capture a Guardian and find Hateno Town. She buys some provisions, apologizes profusely to the innkeeper for scaring him, and heads out of the village.

The innkeeper is just glad she is okay now.

Buying a goodly amount of provisions uses up the rest of her money, for now.

The trail south is the most direct way to Hateno Town from here.

She'll take it. She picks up more things to sell on the way, just in case.

There are things to be gathered! 

There are two little monsters camped out on the road about a mile out of town. Ugly looking goblin-things with wooden spears.

Her plan was to head to Hateno Town first and then capture a Guardian, but she might need the Guardian just to get through the area without dying. She only has limited rounds in her pistol and is inclined to save them instead of using them.

She goes off road, carefully avoiding the goblins.

Her choices for 'off road' are 'up a cliff' or 'into a lake'.

... so she will have to get the Guardian first. Annoying.

She turns back into the village, parks herself in front of one of the statues so she can look like she's praying, and enters VR. 

Where's that Guardian she found yesterday? The functional one.

It is back on its original patrol route, not where she left it.

Sure, she expected that. Should be just as easy to get marks again, right?

Just as easy as before.

Perfect. She does that.

... but now comes the hard part, where she'll have to stay in the Matrix long enough to carefully change ownership of all the subsystems and check to make sure no warning signals get sent to the original owner. She has a program that will help her with the latter, which is more important. But the former will probably require more tedious attention. She gets started.

The systems on this thing are weird. Despite her looking around thoroughly the other day, nothing is working quite as she expects. It'll take a while. A few subsystems hit fatal errors and factory reset themselves.

She's not as frustrated as she might be otherwise. Too distracted by her leftover worry that GOD's going to be on her ass any minute for doing so many illegal actions in one place without rebooting. 

At some point, though, she comes away finished. She's tempted to marvel at it before she realizes she should test that it's hers before she brings it closer to the village. 

The guardian patiently awaits commands. The sensor identifies the Orc-monster-thing she can see in the scope as a Moblin.

Oh those things have names. Interesting.

Can she reach it in person from here? She wants to position it such that there's a rock in the way of its sensors and her, and see if she registers as a threat, a neutral, or a friendly.

It's actually a pretty long trip from there to here. This Guardian is almost halfway to the dark castle. She'd basically have to take it through the village (or just go back there) or possibly scout the surrounding area for paths through the mountainous areas.