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…"

measurements displayed on the

I'm really on a different

was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage.

oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it could

place was filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her

aside, Melissa was still excited about her current

her research, it was none other than this place!

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long.

planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go back

the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why she suddenly appeared here

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

what was going

"Hmm…"

pinched the middle of her

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

***

Melissa, in

"What's that?"

Amanda peered through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where she saw

the pyramid in the distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential

light also shot into the sky as she stared at the top of the

clouds in the sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

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

landed perfectly on 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

in the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

was, but now that she could see

was a mana

large scaled

a device used by demons to convert the mana in the air into

distance, Amanda knew one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was

on she was

"I'm not on earth."

of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It

unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation

to be far bigger than

her thoughts as her attention was

"...How did this happen?"

that she had no idea how

get an idea of

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the help of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body as I stumbled

wall. I ripped

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how moss smelled

dropped the moss on the ground,

It was dark.

saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

a deep breath, I placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to figure out how big

my foot touched the corner of the

steps vertical, and

nor too small. Just about the size of half a basketball

'I'm thirsty.'

moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the more pronounced the

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

I had been here over

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

'Wait.'