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 the machine. Her excitement

shit. I'm really on a

exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was

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

filled 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 her face

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still excited about her current

collect data for her research, it was none other than

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last

on a different planet, but how exactly am

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

her own business in her lab when suddenly, out

was going

"Hmm…"

pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled to

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

***

Melissa, in

"What's that?"

and glanced to the distance

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

sky as she stared at the top of

the clouds in the sky darkened

"This phenomenon..."

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

of another branch, she eventually reached the top of

structure in the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could see it better, she was

was a mana

large scaled mana

demons to convert the mana in the air into

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

that point on she was able

"I'm not on earth."

built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long

as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had

size of the plants look to be far bigger than anything I've seen

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

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how she found herself

idea of where she was. Little did she think she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me, I supported

the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and brought it closer to

"Is this moss?"

texture of the lump on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

the ground, I turned my attention to the

It was dark.

saw

"Huuuu..."

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

corner of

and twelve

neither too big nor too small. Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid was dripping. The closer I

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

been here over a day

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

'Wait.'