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…"

the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement

shit. I'm really

exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the air was a lot more

level of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages,

place was filled with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

Melissa cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still excited

data for her research, it was none other

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last

might be on a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go

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

when suddenly, out of nowhere,

what was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

thick canopy of trees and glanced

distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this

bright purple light also shot into the sky as she stared

the clouds in the sky

"This phenomenon..."

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

the top of another branch, she eventually

distance, Amanda quietly mumbled to

"A mana compressor."

sure what the pyramid was, but now that she

a

scaled

by demons to convert the

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

was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

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

Amanda marvelled at the various

look to be

of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the pyramid

"...How did this happen?"

abruptly that she had no idea

she was only here to get an idea of

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my

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

"Is this moss?"

on my hand, I brought it closer to my nose

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss

the ground, I

It was dark.

saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

to move my legs in

foot touched the corner of the

vertical, and

big nor too small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

been here over a day and

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

'Wait.'