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

shit. I'm really on a

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

as back when earth was

place was filled with

"Shit."

thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her

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

collect data for her research, it was none other than this place! A place filled

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows

how exactly am I

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

was quietly minding her own business in her lab when suddenly,

was going

"Hmm…"

faded as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she

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

***

Melissa,

"What's that?"

canopy of trees and glanced to the

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

into the sky as she stared at the top

clouds in the sky darkened

"This phenomenon..."

what was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as

of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the

the structure in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could see it

a

large scaled mana

device used by demons to convert the mana in

thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It

that point on she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to be on

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

size of the plants look to be far bigger than anything

her thoughts as her

"...How did this happen?"

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

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I supported my body as I stumbled

side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall

"Is this moss?"

the lump on my hand, I brought it closer to my

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss smelled

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

It was dark.

saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

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

touched the corner of

steps vertical, and twelve steps

neither too big nor too small. Just about the size of half a basketball

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

now, I had been here over a day and

hand

'Wait.'