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

I'm really

the percentage of nitrogen to 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 rich

back when earth was in

place was filled with

"Shit."

most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the

then, putting that aside, Melissa was

could collect data for her research, it was none other

"Wait a second..."

last long. Her eyebrows knitted

planet, but how exactly

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

her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam!

what was going

"Hmm…"

her. She pinched the middle

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

***

away from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

of trees and glanced

tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was

into the sky as

sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

leapt up as she took

larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to

the distance,

"A mana compressor."

what the pyramid was, but now that she could

a mana

large scaled mana

device used by demons to convert the mana in the air into demonic

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

that point on she was able to figure

"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 impossible for it to be on earth, and she

environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that

look to be far bigger

was quick to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how she found herself in

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I

my hand as I felt something soft on the side of the wall. I

"Is this moss?"

my hand to feel the texture of the lump on my hand, I brought it

"It smells like it…"

knew

on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

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

my foot touched the corner of the

steps vertical, and

big nor too small. Just

'I'm thirsty.'

dry lops together, I moved toward the area where the liquid

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

here over a day and

more, I extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'