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 machine.

shit. I'm really on a different

of nitrogen to exygen 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 only mean

with

"Shit."

thought made Melissa cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made

Melissa was still

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

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long.

on a different planet, but how exactly

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

in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She

what was

"Hmm…"

faded as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance

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

***

away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

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

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

the sky as

in the sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes off of the

toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able

the structure in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

was, but

a mana

scaled

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

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

she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible

unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at

plants look to be

to snap out of her thoughts as her attention

"...How did this happen?"

happened so abruptly that she had no idea how she found herself

to get an idea of where she was. Little did she think she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me,

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

knew

dropped the moss on the ground, I turned my attention to

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

to move my legs in a sideways motion. At

my foot touched the corner of the

steps vertical, and

too small. Just

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful of

I had been here

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

'Wait.'