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…"

surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement

I'm really

it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared

were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it

filled with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

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

was still excited about

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

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long. Her eyebrows knitted

a different planet, but how exactly am

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

her own business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself

what was

"Hmm…"

pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly

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

***

Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where

in the distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of

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

in the sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

her legs and leapt up as she

larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the

distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

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

a mana

scaled mana

a device used by demons to convert

the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just

point on she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

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

could be said for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that

to be far bigger than anything I've seen

as her attention was

"...How did this happen?"

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

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

rocky wall beside me, I supported my

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

"Is this moss?"

lump on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss smelled

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

It was dark.

I saw

"Huuuu..."

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

foot touched the corner of the

steps vertical, and twelve

nor too small. Just about the size of half a

'I'm thirsty.'

liquid was dripping. The closer

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful of

had been here over a day

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

'Wait.'