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

really on a

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

when earth was in its infancy stages, and it could only

place was filled with enormous

"Shit."

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 contort into

that aside, Melissa was still

all, if there where shes could collect data for her research, it was none other than

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows knitted

different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to

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

when suddenly, out of

what was going

"Hmm…"

the middle of her

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

***

away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

of trees and glanced to the distance where she saw a

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 the pyramid in the distance

bright purple light also shot into the sky as she stared at

sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

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

landed perfectly on a taller branch of a larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of

the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

was, but now that she

a

scaled

a device used by demons to convert the mana in

the

she was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

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

same could be said for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had never

of the plants look to be far bigger than

her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the

"...How did this happen?"

no idea how she found herself

of where she was.

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body

wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and

"Is this moss?"

my hand, I brought it closer to my nose

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss smelled

moss on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

around, I saw

"Huuuu..."

both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion.

foot touched the corner of the room, I

vertical, and twelve

Just about the size of half a

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

here over

lips together once more, I extended my hand in the

'Wait.'