The Author's POV

'It's bright.'

Squinting, Melissa covered her face with her hand to block the light coming from above. It was really bright. Bright enough to make her eyes feel sore.

"Ugh."

Her mind was rather groggy at the moment and she wanted nothing more than to sleep at the moment.

She felt tired. Extremely so.

But…

"The fuck!?"

With a sharp snap of her eyelids, Melissa stirred out of her slumber.

After her mind sobered up a bit and she recalled the events leading up to her finding herself in this state, she immediately felt uneasy.

"Shit, where are my glasses?"

In search of her glasses, Melissa tapped the ground with her hands.

It was difficult for Melissa to see anything without her glasses, as everything around her was extremely blurry.

"Where are they?"

Touching around her and only feeling what felt like thick hard grass, Melissa's brows knit tightly.

"I knew it."

Melissa muttered to herself as her face twisted in displeasure.

"…I knew that I shouldn't have agreed with Ren's deal. Whenever I do something with him, I'm always hit with the worst of luck. Now I probably lost my glasses and will never find them ag—"

Right at that moment, Melissa felt something in her hand. Carefully touching it and recognizing its shape, she grabbed the item and put them on her face.

"Nevermind."

She mumbled to herself as she got up and took a look at her surroundings.

"Still doesn't change what I previo—huh?"

Melissa's jaw grew slack as gazed into the distance.

She was left in awe by what she saw as she struggled to comprehend the scene in front of her at that moment..

"…Where in the world am I?"

The scenery…

It looked like nothing like she had ever seen before.

A majestic forest of thick canopy trees bent at different angles covered the northwest part of the landscape. A vivid palette of rose, amber, and violet feathers shaped leaved replaced the regular looking ones to create a breathtaking spectacle.

The air was thin and easy to breathe as Melissa had no trouble breathing.

But…

"This is not earth."

Melissa was quick to guess that something was wrong with this place. It had no semblance of the earth she knew.

"How is this possible?"

Rather than being flustered, Melissa's eyes twinkled with an uncommon excitement.

"It can't be right?"

By tapping her bracelet, she took a tiny device out of her dimensional space and pressed the small button that sat atop of it.

Beep—! Beep—!

A beeping sound echoed out.

"61% nitrogen, and 30%% oxygen…"

eyes opened wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her

I'm really on a different

to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a

same as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it could only mean

place was filled with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of

that aside, Melissa was still excited about

where shes could collect data for her research, it was none

"Wait a second..."

didn't last

different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go back to

fact, she

was quietly minding her own business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She

was

"Hmm…"

her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she

"I'm fucked, aren't I?"

***

from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance

tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the distance that

shot into the sky as she stared at the

in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

what was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she

a taller branch of a larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to

the structure in the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

she wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could see

a mana

scaled mana

device used by demons to convert the mana in

the distance wasn't just any mana

she was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

that a mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to be on earth, and she knew

unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and

size of the plants look to be far bigger than

out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn

"...How did this happen?"

no idea how she found herself in

of where she was. Little did

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

me, I supported my body as

something soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and brought it

"Is this moss?"

hand to feel the texture of the lump on my hand, I brought it

"It smells like it…"

knew how

the ground, I turned my attention to the

It was dark.

I saw

"Huuuu..."

slowly began to move my legs in

the corner of the room, I could

and twelve

Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

my dry lops together, I moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

had been here over

my lips together once more, I extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'