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…"

in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon reached an

shit. I'm really on a

rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small

when earth was in its infancy stages, and it

with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the

aside, Melissa was still excited about her

where shes could collect data for her research, it was none other than this place!

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long. Her

planet, but how exactly am I supposed

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

lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam!

was going

"Hmm…"

as reality 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,

"What's that?"

through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the

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

sky as she stared at the

clouds in the sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

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

once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was

the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

pyramid was, but now that she could see it better, she was

a

large scaled mana

convert

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

that point on she was

"I'm not on earth."

other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to be on earth, and she knew

unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at

be far

quick to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once

"...How did this happen?"

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

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me,

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

"Is this moss?"

my hand, I brought it closer to

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss smelled

ground, I

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to figure out how

the corner of the room, I could

and twelve

big nor too small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

moved toward the area where the liquid

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

of now, I had been here over

more, I extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'