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

really on a different

differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the air was a lot

back when earth was in its infancy stages,

place was filled with

"Shit."

bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales,

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still

all, if there where shes could collect data for her research, it was none other than this place! A place filled with prehistoric

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last

how exactly am I supposed

know how she got here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused

when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself

what was going

"Hmm…"

dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled to

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

of trees and glanced to

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

the sky as she stared

sky

"This phenomenon..."

and leapt up as she took her eyes off of the pyramid-like

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 see

distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

what the pyramid was, but now

a mana

large scaled mana

convert the mana in

mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one designed to

was able

"I'm not on earth."

earth, humanity or other races would've discovered

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

plants look to be far bigger than

her attention was once again

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how she found herself in such

of where

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

me, I supported my body

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

"Is this moss?"

on my hand,

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how

ground, I

It was dark.

I saw

"Huuuu..."

to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I

corner of the

vertical, and twelve steps

neither too big nor too small. Just

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

I had been here over a day

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

'Wait.'