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…"

as she read the measurements displayed on

I'm really on a different

On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by

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

with enormous

"Shit."

the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her face

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still excited

research, it was none other than this place! A place filled

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last

on a different planet, but how exactly am I

didn't even know how she got here in the first place. In fact, she was

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

was

"Hmm…"

the middle of

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

***

Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

and glanced to the distance where she saw

of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the distance

shot into the sky as she

clouds in the sky

"This phenomenon..."

legs and leapt up as she took her

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

in the distance,

"A mana compressor."

sure what the pyramid was, but now that

a mana

large scaled

convert the mana in

for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't

she was able

"I'm not on earth."

a mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it

as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had never seen

to be far

to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how she found herself in such

of where she was. Little did she think she was on

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

hand as I felt something soft on the side of the wall.

"Is this moss?"

feel the texture of the lump on my hand, I brought it closer to my nose and sniffed

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss smelled

on the ground,

It was dark.

saw

"Huuuu..."

I placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in

my foot touched the corner

and twelve steps

nor too small. Just

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

been here over a day and

I extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'